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Look up: Chess

  1. chess
    (games) A two-player game with perfect information. Usenet newsgroup: news:rec.games.chess. See also Internet Chess Server. (1995-03-25)
    Found on http://foldoc.org/chess

  2. chess
    [n] - weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat 2. [n] - a game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Chess
    Chess noun [ Middle English ches , French échecs , prop. plural of échec check. See 1st Check .] A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/62

  4. Chess
    Chess noun (Botany) A species of brome grass ( Bromus secalinus ) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and grou...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/62

  5. chess
    chess game noun a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent`s king
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. chess
    cheat 2 Bromus secalinus noun weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. Chess
    • (n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns. • (n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome w...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  8. chess
    (from the article `bromegrass`) ...(B. inermis), a perennial native to Eurasia and introduced into the northern United States as a forage plant and soil binder, are the economically ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/65

  9. chess
    one of the oldest and most popular board games, played by two opponents on a checkered board with specially designed pieces of contrasting colours, ... [35 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/65

  10. Chess
    Chess is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `Camp of the soldiers.` The name Chess doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Chess seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Ches

  11. chess
    chess, game for two players played on a square board composed of 64 square spaces, alternately dark and light in color.Sections in this article:IntroductionBasic RulesHistoryBibliography
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0

  12. Chess
    Chess is a well-known game of great antiquity and of eastern origin, having probably arisen in India, and thence spread through Persia and Arabia to Europe. The name itself as well as many of the terms used in the game are clearly of eastern origin, the word chess being formed from the old French es...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. chess
    Click images to enlargeBoard game originating as early as the 2nd century. Two players use 16 pieces each, on a board of 64 squares of alternating colour (usually black and white), to try to force the opponent into a position (`checkmate`) where the main piece (the king) is threatened and cannot move to another ...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  14. Chess
    `Chess` is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an 8x8 grid. Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: One king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. Pieces move in different ways according to...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

  15. Chess
    (musical) `Chess` is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, formerly of ABBA, and with lyrics by Tim Rice. The story involves a romantic triangle between two top players, an American and a Russian, in a world chess championship, and a woman who manages one and fa...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

  16. Chess
    (application) `Chess` is a chess game for Mac OS X, and its progenitor, OPENSTEP, featuring a high-quality graphical display and support for chess variants such as crazyhouse and suicide chess. Also included are different skins featuring metal, grass, marble and wood. It is bundled with the M...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

  17. Chess
    (disambiguation) `Chess` is a two-player board game sometimes called international chess. `Chess` or `CHESS` may also refer to: Board games: Computer games: Art: Acronyms: Products and services: Other: See also :
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess

  18. Chess
    (Northwestern University) `Chess` was a pioneering chess program from the 1970s, authored by Larry Atkin and David Slate at Northwestern University. Chess ran on Control Data Corporation`s line of supercomputers. It dominated the first computer chess tournaments, such as the World Computer Ch...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess



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10 February 2012

This day in history:
On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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