Chess
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.
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 ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
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Chess Quotations
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips
I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Soren Kierkegaard
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
Richard Dawkins
My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
Dave Barry
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
Charles Dudley Warner
I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
Dennis Miller
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
Terry Pratchett
Chess Translations
chess in Afrikaans is skaak
chess in Dutch is schaakspel, schaak
chess in German is Schach
chess in Italian is scacco
chess in Norwegian is sjakk
chess in Spanish is ajedrez, ajedrez
chess in Swedish is schack
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