Football is a game – but chess, video games, and hide and seek are games, too, each with its own rules.
It's fun to play chess against a computer.
One brain scientist said that, although we can make a computer that can beat world champions at chess, we still can’t make a robot that can move nearly as well as us.
There are chess competitions and chess stars.
Afterwards he taught me poker, and I beat him at three tough chess games.
I found him busily studying a problem in chess.
The annals of chivalry continually speak of the barons playing at these games, and especially at chess.
The prisoners play football, tennis, cards and chess.
We may then suppose that chess was a favourite evening amusement of the Celt.
chess| American Dictionary
chess
noun[U]
us/tʃes/
agameplayedby twopeopleon asquareboard, in which eachplayerhas 16piecesthat can bemovedon theboardin differentways
Unendingchess, symbolic dynamics and a problem in semigroups.
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The development of variouschess-playing software enabled the robot to playchesswith people intelligently.
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In this example, someone is behaving somewhat like the ostensibly blunderingchessplayer.
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In the game ofchess, for example, the objective is to place the opponent's king in checkmate.
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The rules ofchesshave a crucial role to play in constituting our concept ofchess.
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Considerchessagain: without the conventions that constitute this game, there is no game ofchessnor, consequently, a concept ofchess.
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He has to think ahead like achessplayer, sketch out possible futures and rewrite them from one moment to the next.
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It is arguable that the identity of such a practice, likechess, is partly path-dependent. 33.
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But gambits, unlike checkmate, are not themselves constitutive ofchess.
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Around 1970, only small objects such aschesspieces were involved.
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Inchess, for example, a computational theory of the problem will hardly help to specify the players' decision processes.
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There is one exception though: for the benchmarkchess, the collection time increases 50% when partial early reset is applied.
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With the network devices, thechess-playing robot can be controlled remotely and can be made into a network robot to some extent.
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Her husband stopped smoking and abandoned gatherings where cards andchesswere played.
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When questioned, they say they are "playingchess," and indeed a closer examination confirms that the pieces of wood arechessfigures.
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Collocationswithchess
chess
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chess club
I can give my own smallchessclubas an example.
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chess master
Onechessmasterdeclared after winning 10,000 master games that he had never defeated an opponent who was in perfect health at the time of his defeat.
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chess match
Subsequently, the camera cuts to him animatedly announcing achessmatch.
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