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# chess

«chess» in Mova's school dictionary: **a board game for two players with pieces like kings…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (chess)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Chess is a board game for two players with pieces like kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks and pawns on a board of 64 squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#m1)

2) The aim is to trap the other player's king, which is called checkmate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a game — games played, players, a chess club, the chessboard has 64 squares (8 rows of 8), a tournament where each plays each other once (handshake counting); counting squares on a board. In everyday life: chess club, playing chess with Grandad, chess online. Phrases: «play chess», «chess club», «chessboard», «chess piece», «checkmate».

### examples

- The chessboard has 64 squares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x1)
- 6 children play chess, each plays each other once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x2)
- The chess club has 12 members. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x3)
- She won 5 chess games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x4)
- My grandad taught me to play chess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x5)
- A knight in chess moves in an L shape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x6)
- Each player starts with 16 chess pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x7)
- It's checkmate, I win! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x8)
- One day Mongan and Duv Laca were playing chess in their palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/#x9)

### note

Uncountable: «play chess», «a game of chess», not «a chess». Maths: a game of the story; in tournaments each pair plays once (handshake counting: 6 players play 15 games). Trap: counting each game twice.

### In the corpora

- [In chess the aim is checkmate, trapping the king, not capturing everything.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/5/)
- [In chess, learn how each piece moves; the aim is checkmate, not capturing everything.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/242-sharing-toys-and-board-games/17/)
- [In chess the aim is checkmate, trapping the king, not capturing as many pieces as possible.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/13/)
- [Sam wants chess club; Jake says chess is «mid» — Gen Z for boring, nothing special.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/20/)
- [They argue, then Sam goes to chess and Jake to football, and they still sit together at lunch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/461-how-best-friends-start/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chess» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chess/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.