chess champion

collocation in English

meaningsofchessandchampion

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chess
noun[U]
uk
/tʃes/us
/tʃes/
a game played by two people on a square board, in which each player has 16 pieces that can be moved on the board in ...
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champion
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/us
/ˈtʃæm.pi.ən/
someone or something, especially a person or animal, that has beaten all other competitors in ...
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(Definition ofchessandchampionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofchess champion

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It got to be embarrassing, constantly being introduced as achesschampionat parties.
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His research was in group theory; he also worked to reform mathematics education and became a countychesschampion.
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By 1987, the machine, integrating some innovative ideas about search strategies, had become the reigning computerchesschampion.
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At the age of nine, she becomes a nationalchesschampion.
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The winners of the two matches will face each other in a match to determine the ultimate undisputed worldchesschampion.
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She is the unrivalledchesschampionof a nearby local club.
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At the age of sixteen he became the nationalchesschampionand won that title two more times.
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Under such circumstances, party leaders resign before their obvious defeat, just as chess champions rarely play out their matches to actual checkmate.
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Franklin becomes his school'schesschampion.
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It was the strongest national chess championship ever held, with eight world chess champions and four world championship finalists among its winners.
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Human-computer chess matches showed the best computer systems overtaking human chess champions in the late 1990s.
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