Word "CHESS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Synonyms:
bromus secalinus, cheat

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
Synonyms:
chess game

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Musical whose music was written by Abba's Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (5)
Game played on a checked board (5)
Game in which Abhijeet Gupta secured his fourth victory at the Delhi International Open GM Tournament. (5)
Board game The Telegraph Quick 13 Jun 2025
Game with a black-and-white board, that ends in a checkmate
Game in which D Gukesh secured a remarkable victory against Magnus Carlsen in Round 6 of Norway Chess. (5)
Game in which knights take the L?
Game where Magnus Carlsen defeated D Gukesh in a fierce battle of tactics and time pressure. (5)
Game with rooks and pawns LA Times Daily 19 May 2025
41 Across game The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 19 May 2025
He boards cold ship with game (5)
Knights and pawns board game
Grandmaster's game The Telegraph Plusword 11 May 2025
Game with bishops Universal 10 May 2025
New BBC2 show with Sue Perkins, ___ Masters: The Endgame (5)
Game with pawns and rooks Mirror Classic 02 May 2025
Board game Mirror Quick 01 May 2025
Revolutionary ship musical Mirror Cryptic 01 May 2025
It involves kings and queens in a witches' sabbath (5)
Board-game for two players (5) Puzzler 26 Apr 2025
Musical, and where answers to asterisked clues are used * The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 22 Apr 2025
A game to master? (5)
Game with black and white pieces The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 14 Apr 2025
Piece-ful game
Board game The Telegraph Quick 03 Apr 2025
Game played on a checkered board
In each essential, a mind game? (5)
Pieces such men perhaps (5)
Game with mates?
Pawns and kings game
Board game Mirror Classic 05 Mar 2025
It involves moves on board that may lead to mating (5)
Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Bjorn Ulvaeus look one move ahead? (5)
Deep Thought was a computer designed to play what? (5)
Game with rocks and bishops (5)
Musical written by Andersson, Ulvaeus and Rice (5)
Game which features in The Queen's Gambit The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 15 Feb 2025
Complete groups appearing on the boards (5,4)
In which men are moved and have taking ways (5)
Game that needs checking (5)
Game with pawns and queens Commuter 01 Feb 2025
There are checks before it's finished, of course (5)
Board game Mirror Classic 22 Jan 2025
Boardgame associated with Nigel Short (5)
Traditional board game The Times Concise 20 Jan 2025
Game caught by the man on ship (5)
Game with rooks and bishops
The mating-game shows he's involved in curious extremes (5)
Game with varieties that include the first parts of answers to asterisked clues The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 07 Jan 2025
It's played slowly and movingly (5)
Board game with bishops and pawns (5) Puzzler Backwords 02 Jan 2025
Kings and pawns board game
Game with bishops and pawns
First chance she's sabotaging the game (5)
"The Queen's Gambit" activity LA Times Daily 09 Dec 2024
What a moving game!
Board game with horses Newsday 24 Nov 2024
South American guerrilla leader's second game The Times Quick Cryptic 21 Nov 2024
Classic board game with kings and rooks which is a part of the World Mind Sports Games
He boarded cold ship with game (5)
One hundred Romans take on Hess at game of strategy (5)
Pawns, kings and queens game
A board game for you and your mates?
Strategic diversion possibly caught Rudolf in WWII
Board antics? (5)
Game with a knight and king
What Bobby Fischer played
Strategic game featuring rooks and bishops (5)
Queen is a man in this musical The Sun Two Speed 13 Oct 2024
Board game The Sun Two Speed 13 Oct 2024
For the most part a lady of title may finish with a mate (5)
Mating game Thomas Joseph 07 Oct 2024
In which men may be moved to mate (5)
Game played on black and white squares The Telegraph Mini 01 Oct 2024
Aristocrat but not of the French game The Times Sunday Cryptic 29 Sep 2024
1984 musical, with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
Activity concluded by a mate? (5)
Black-andwhite game
Mating game Wall Street Journal 12 Sep 2024
Cerebral board game
Getting a mate finishes it! (5)
Subject of The Queen's Gambit The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 08 Sep 2024
Identify this game by its pieces! King, queen, rook, bishop, knight, and pawn
Game with knights and kings Newsday 28 Aug 2024
Duke's wife skipping half of dull musical
Cheeses undergo European restrictions, twice, in tactical struggle? Mirror Cryptic 26 Aug 2024
Strategy game Mirror Quick 26 Aug 2024
1986 Cold War musical written by ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus with lyricist Tim Rice (5)
Game in "The Queen's Gambit" TV 25 Aug 2024
The duchess's game (5)
Board game "played" in this puzzle Universal 23 Aug 2024
"The Queen's Gambit" focus TV 11 Aug 2024
Word that refers to a strategic board game with black-and-white squares, and ends with "ss"
Popular board game Mirror Tea Time 31 Jul 2024
Game with pawns, knights and rooks
Game concluded by a mate? (5)
Record label founded by the brothers Leonard and Phil in Chicago in 1950
Hikaru Nakamura or Ding Liren's game (5) The Guardian Quick 15 Jun 2024
West End show (5)
Game in Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit"
Stage musical featuring the song One Night In Bangkok (5)
Board game The Telegraph Quick 12 Jun 2024
Game with a black-and-white board, that ends in a checkmate
Game with rooks USA Today 09 Jun 2024
Some duchess has king and queen on board (5)
Game involving rooks and bishops
Strategic game (5)
Musical named after a board game (5)
The mating game? Universal 27 May 2024
Board game The Telegraph Quick 19 May 2024
Board game Mirror Classic 18 May 2024
Tactical board game (5)
Complex board game Puzzler 04 May 2024
Part of match, essentially, in board game (5)
Game with bishops Commuter 19 Apr 2024
Musical boxes Tchaikovsky initially overlooked (5)
Maurice Ashley's game
Game with an "en passant" rule that governs pawn capture
Musical about Switzerland is Spanish success initially (5)
Game with rooks Commuter 11 Apr 2024
Game featured in the series The Queen's Gambit (5)
Revolutionary ship pursuit (5)
It's played in matches, sometimes
"The Queen's Gambit" topic
Board game Mirror Classic 27 Mar 2024
Mating competition? Universal 25 Mar 2024
Game that was a lifelong passion of 5 down (5)
The game of Charlie and Rudolf
Board game Mirror Quick 16 Mar 2024
Musical game Mirror Cryptic 16 Mar 2024
1986 Tim Rice/Benny Andersson musical (5)
One of the mates in it should be game (5)
Game played between mates? (5)
Extremely churlish female ending the mating game (5)
"16 on 16" competition Newsday 24 Feb 2024
A musical game! (5)
Board game with pawns and rooks (5)
Logical pastime Mirror Quick 08 Feb 2024
Musical game Mirror Cryptic 08 Feb 2024
Musical board game (5)
Board game where the goal is mate
Malt and this game could be matchless (5)
It involves mate getting companion to accompany letter (5)
"The game of kings" Commuter 17 Jan 2024
Bucks. chalk stream - in beaches surprisingly! (5)
Anand's forte (5)
What involves one's quest for a mate? Universal 31 Dec 2023
Game played by grandmasters
Pawns and kings board game
Board game whose opening moves include the King's Gambit and Scotch Game (5)
New world champ of this royal board game is from China (5)
What requires men to play part in Witches' Sabbath? (5)
What requires men to play part in Witches' Sabbath? The Telegraph Toughie 19 Dec 2023
Musical featuring One Night in Bangkok 21 Across
Game with rooks LA Times Daily 03 Dec 2023
Tim Rice musical
A floorboard of a pontoon bridge; a game embodied by the goddess Caissa; or, a species of brome-grass, found growing with wheat (5)
Board game associated with Bobby Fischer and Nigel Short (5)
On-board diversion? The Guardian Quick 25 Nov 2023
On-board diversion? (5)
Teaches son hiding game The Times Quick Cryptic 24 Nov 2023
Board game The Telegraph Quick 22 Nov 2023
Game he's into completely strategical, firstly The Times Quick Cryptic 08 Nov 2023
Board game The Telegraph Quick 09 Oct 2023
Game ending in "mate" New York Times 02 Oct 2023
Game with grandmasters LA Times Daily 18 Sep 2023
Game played by Magnus Carlsen, e.g. The Telegraph Quick 12 Sep 2023
Section of launch, essentially, in which master gets mates on board The Times Cryptic 28 Jul 2023
Game of skill caught old Nazi The Guardian Cryptic 25 Jul 2023
'A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time,' per Shaw New York Times 15 Jun 2023
Game with pawns USA Today 09 Jun 2023
Board game combined with boxing in a hybrid sport USA Today 29 May 2023
Game you can play with a mate? Universal 17 Feb 2023
Game with castling USA Today 27 Jan 2023
32-piece pastime Newsday 08 Jan 2023
Xie Jun's game USA Today 27 Nov 2022
Board game The Times Concise 16 Nov 2022
Overlooking some French titled lady for musical The Telegraph Toughie 27 Oct 2022
Game created by guerrilla leader’s son The Times Cryptic 25 Oct 2022
Board game The Telegraph Quick 08 Sep 2022
Game played with horses Newsday 01 Sep 2022
Game with pawns and bishops Newsday 22 Aug 2022
Board game that had its first Earth vs Space match in 1970
A game with mates The Guardian Quick 22 Jun 2022
In which ‘essence' is an intellectual pursuit
In which 'essence' is an intellectual pursuit The Guardian Cryptic 03 Jun 2022
It has thousands of openings New York Times 22 May 2022
Game with queens and knights Newsday 10 May 2022
Game of checkers? Universal 03 May 2022
Activity with castles The Washington Post 15 Apr 2022
Board game The Times Concise 15 Apr 2022
Activity with castles LA Times Daily 15 Apr 2022
Board game The Guardian Quick 01 Apr 2022
Musical Rudolf having caught on
"The Queen's Gambit" game LA Times Daily 25 Jan 2022
'The Queen's Gambit' game The Washington Post 25 Jan 2022
Game with a blitz variety The Washington Post Sunday 23 Jan 2022
Spassky's game Eugene Sheffer 18 Jan 2022
The mating game? New York Times 05 Jan 2022
Game of skill The Telegraph Quick 20 Dec 2021
Soprano's overwhelmed by revolutionary musical
Game contributed by the Dutch essentially
It entails taking men on board, ending with mate
It entails taking men on board, ending with mate The Guardian Cryptic 06 Oct 2021
The Mating Game or Red and The Bodyguard?
"Three-Person ___," strategy game developed by Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory"
Game of checkers? New York Times 14 Aug 2021
Mating game Thomas Joseph 06 Aug 2021
Where queens are most powerful Newsday 20 May 2021
Matches on Saturday will show this game
Game that can end in two moves Universal 08 May 2021
Game show
Spassky's game Eugene Sheffer 03 May 2021
The mating game? The Sun Two Speed 17 Mar 2021
80s musical The Sun Two Speed 17 Mar 2021
"The Queen's Gambit" game Universal 09 Mar 2021
32-piece game Newsday 07 Mar 2021
Hurts to lose a second battle of wits
Board manoeuvres – the likes of Fergie deprived of dues
Nona Gaprindashvili's game USA Today 23 Feb 2021
Judit Polgar's game USA Today 12 Feb 2021
Board game The Times Concise 28 Jan 2021
Part of which, essentially, that's like Othello in certain ways
Board game The Telegraph Quick 24 Sep 2020
Mating activity? Wall Street Journal 18 Sep 2020
Wizard's ___, magical variant of a classical board game played at Hogwarts in which pieces move of their own accord on the player's command
Game with two queens USA Today 08 Aug 2020
'The gymnasium of the mind,' per Pascal New York Times 04 Aug 2020
Sophocles dismissed pool with the mating game? Irish Times Crosaire 15 Jul 2020
Ancient board game Newsday 05 Jul 2020
Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin New York Times 11 Jun 2020
Musical with the song 'Endgame' The Washington Post 05 Jun 2020
Musical with the song "Endgame" LA Times Daily 05 Jun 2020
Game in Vonnegut's ''All the King's Horses'' Newsday 02 May 2020
Game with queens Universal 22 Apr 2020
Phiona Mutesi's game USA Today 11 Apr 2020
She's desperately after clubs in game The Telegraph Cryptic 06 Apr 2020
Mating game Thomas Joseph 25 Mar 2020
Game with kings and rooks
Game with boxes, present finally emerging
***Game with rooks (1 and 2) Universal 06 Dec 2019
Mate finishes this chapter -- he's succeeded The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Dec 2019
Game with grand masters Universal 03 Dec 2019
Game of kings and pawns Newsday 27 Nov 2019
Game with pawns Thomas Joseph 14 Oct 2019
Game with rooks Thomas Joseph 08 Oct 2019
Game on an 8x8 board New York Times 30 Sep 2019
Quest for a mate Wall Street Journal 19 Sep 2019
*Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil LA Times Daily 05 Sep 2019
*Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil The Washington Post 05 Sep 2019
Poem by Jan Kochanowski The Telegraph General Knowledge 12 Aug 2019
Contest my mate sometimes wins? The Sun Two Speed 19 Jul 2019
Board game The Sun Two Speed 19 Jul 2019
Game with knights The Washington Post 07 Jul 2019
Game with knights LA Times Daily 07 Jul 2019
Subject game of this puzzle New York Times 07 Jul 2019
Contest in search of mate The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Jun 2019
Where you could see a queen winking with knight?
Mating game? USA Today 07 May 2019
Game of kings Universal 06 Apr 2019
Game with a mate LA Times Daily 31 Mar 2019
Game with a mate The Washington Post 31 Mar 2019
Promotional activity? The Washington Post Sunday 17 Mar 2019
The mating game? The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Mar 2019
This chap's admitted to the Civil Service
'___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted': Vladimir Putin New York Times 06 Jan 2019
Game: Nazis against Communist
Kingly pursuit? Wall Street Journal 03 Jan 2019
Subject game of this puzzle
*Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil
Game with a mate
Game with knights
Quest for a mate
Kingly pursuit?
Mating game?
Game of kings
Game on an 8x8 board
"___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin
Game with pawns and bishops Newsday 04 Dec 2018
Game with bishops Thomas Joseph 26 Nov 2018
Bobby Fischer's game USA Today 25 Nov 2018
Revolutionary is chased by paramilitary force? It's just a war game
Boxes, losing bout finally? Here's another game
Men leaving unpleasant tasks succeeded in game
Google's AlphaZero "mastered" it in four hours The New Yorker 10 Sep 2018
County side's opening game
Board game with rooks and knights that is one of the oldest board games
Grandmaster's game LA Times Daily 02 Jul 2018
Grandmaster's game The Washington Post 02 Jul 2018
Mate ends this old duty husband introduced
Mating game The Washington Post 10 Jun 2018
Mating game LA Times Daily 10 Jun 2018
Noble misses kick-off for Dundee United game
'While all artists are not ____ players, all ____ players are artists' (Marcel Duchamp) The Times Specialist Sunday 29 Apr 2018
32-piece pastime Newsday 11 Apr 2018
Board game with pawns Newsday 13 Feb 2018
Caught, she's out in game The Sun Two Speed 08 Jan 2018
Game of strategy The Sun Two Speed 08 Jan 2018
Fischer's forte LA Times Daily 07 Jan 2018
Fischer's forte The Washington Post 07 Jan 2018
Bobby Fischer's game
"I failed to make the ___ team because of my height": Woody Allen
Fischer's forte
Grandmaster's game
Mating game
Where men are on board ship beside revolutionary The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Dec 2017
Game with capturing LA Times Daily 03 Dec 2017
Board meeting activity? The Washington Post Sunday 03 Dec 2017
Game with capturing The Washington Post 03 Dec 2017
Game chap with son in Court of Session
Battle on board revolutionary ship The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Nov 2017
'Life is a kind of ___': Benjamin Franklin New York Times 18 Oct 2017
Deep Blue beat this game’s world champion in 1997 The Times Specialist Sunday 01 Oct 2017
'Mental torture,' per Garry Kasparov The Washington Post Sunday 17 Sep 2017
The Mating Game in black and white
Musical written by Tim Rice and two members of ABBA The Times Specialist Sunday 27 Aug 2017
Strategic board game Universal 07 Aug 2017
Activity on board revolutionary ship The Telegraph Cryptic 15 Jul 2017
Mate ends it when he's overwhelmed by extremely cheerless feelings
Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament LA Times Daily 08 Jul 2017
Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament The Washington Post 08 Jul 2017
Game where men could jump overboard
Mater plays it cool to start with, then she's off!
Revolutionary seems to lose heart in game The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Mar 2017
Kasparov's game The Washington Post 05 Feb 2017
Game with kings and queens Newsday 22 Jan 2017
After check, finally one wins this game
Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament
Game with capturing
"Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin
Strategic board game
It's played on board ship by chemical engineer
Revolutionary ship that ends with mate on board
Game with kings and rooks Newsday 29 Aug 2016
It offers checking Wall Street Journal 13 Aug 2016
Game with kings and queens Universal 10 Aug 2016
Many of its pieces are lost during play LA Times Daily 31 Jul 2016
County in short leading second game
Mating game The Chronicle of Higher Education 08 Jul 2016
Game / show
County in short leading second game
Cases in which time is lost in game The Telegraph Cryptic 19 May 2016
It includes a lot of checks Wall Street Journal 13 Apr 2016
Combative deployment of men on board The Times Cryptic 05 Apr 2016
Game with knights and pawns Newsday 30 Mar 2016
'The gymnasium of the mind,' to Pascal Wall Street Journal 26 Feb 2016
Relatively recent musical game
It involves a quest for a mate USA Today 06 Feb 2016
Musical about pianist Dame Myra The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jan 2016
Game with kings and queens
Many of its pieces are lost during play
Master work?
Mating game
It involves a quest for a mate
Game with kings and queens The Guardian Quick 26 Dec 2015
Musical game The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Nov 2015
Match with bishops LA Times Daily 11 Nov 2015
'As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency,' per Raymond Chandler New York Times 24 Oct 2015
The mating game? USA Today 05 Jul 2015
Venerable board game Newsday 28 Jun 2015
The mating game
The mating game? Premier Sunday 19 Apr 2015
Deep Blue's game Eugene Sheffer 18 Apr 2015
Kind of board Universal 10 Apr 2015
'Heading for Colditz', Nazi musical The Telegraph Toughie 10 Apr 2015
Setting for a castle New York Times 22 Feb 2015
Boxes, losing tense contest in 9
The mating game?
"As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler
Setting for a castle
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus musical
Kind of board
Venerable board game
The mating game?
Match with bishops
Some coaches spoil game
Are the cells used in this game grey?
Some coaches spoil game
Game of pawns and kings
Magnus Carlsen's game
Game with checks
Game in which pieces can be forked
It may include a checking account
Game with checks
Game where the ends of the answers to starred clues are commonly heard
What a check might be delivered in
Mating game
The mating game
Game with horses
Game of strategy
Game with pawns
War for 30 men and 2 women?
Fischer's skill
Game with forks and pins
Game played with 32 men
Mating game?
Rank-and-file game
Activity requiring four bishops
Fischer's game
Bogart played it by mail
It includes a lot of checks
*Musical featuring "One Night in Bangkok"*
Game with kings and pawns
Fischer's game
Game with pawns and knights
Game with checks
Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___"
Checkers alternative
Many men get captured in it
Game with knights
Its openings are often studied
Pastime with pawns
Activity requiring four bishops
Spassky's passion
Knight's activity?
Game with 16 men on a side
Game with kings and queens
Game of kings and queens?
Knight's realm?
Ancient pastime
Game of kings and queens
Where there's a quest for a mate
Game with kings and castles
It involves one's quest for a mate
"Through the Looking-Glass" game
Deep Blue's game
Game with at most one mate
Game with at most one mate
32-man game
__ set
Game of kings and castles
Mating game
Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues
Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues
Game with gambits
The mating game?
Game with gambits
Mating game
Game that features mating
"Through the Looking-Glass" game
Game with many openings
What a patzer plays
"Through the Looking-Glass" game
Setting for a check
Speed ___
Fischer's game
32-man game
Its queen is a man
Its queens are men
Capablanca's game
Game in which mating may occur
Mating game
Where the queen conquers more than the king
The mating game
Game played with men and a board
Fischer's forte
Game believed to be of Indian origin
Grandmaster's game
Game played on 64 squares
Endgame game
The mating game?
It has two kings and two queens
Where the queen travels farther than the king
Deeper Blue's game
Checking activity
Game of bishops and knights
Kasparov's game
The mating game?
Board game
Mating game
Checking account?
Game played with bishops
32-man game
Fischer forte
Kasparov's game
Game of kings and queens?
Venue in which mating occurs
Spassky's game
Mating game
Board game
Bishops' game
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" game
Game with pins
Board game
Game with 16 men on a side
Fischer's forte
Game with kings and rooks
Game with checks and squares
Fischer's forte
Deep Blue's game
Where some castles are found
Karpov's game
32-member board
Game of kings and queens
Mating game?
The mating game?
Fischer's field
Game with a Sicilian defense
Bishops' game
Battle of wits
Spassky's game
Deep Blue's game
Board game from India
Castle locale
Kasparov's game
Deep Blue specialty
Popular newspaper column
Black-and-white set
Kind of board
Karpov's forte
Game born in India
Game
1988 Tim Rice musical
This puzzle's theme
Judit Polgar's game
Mating game?
Karpov's forte
Kind of pie or board
The mating game
Karpov's game
Bobby Fischer's game
Where a king may be castled
Popular pastime in Iceland
Board game
Game of strategy
In which a queen is most powerful
Tal's forte
"Looking Glass" game
Fischer's forte
Game
Icelandic activity
Game with men
Alekhine's game.
Game of skill.
Larry Evans' game.
Dr. Alekhine's game.
Basic idea in "Through the Looking Glass."
Substance of the fantasy is "Through the Looking Glass."
Russia's favorite game, probably invented in India.
A game of pure skill.
Alekhine's forte.
Board game.
Game requiring 32 pieces.
Paul Morphy's game.
Forte of Bobby Fischer.
Bishop's millieu
An area of U. S.–Russian rivalry.
Theme in Looking-Glass Land.
Paul Morphy's forte.
Table game.
"The ___ board is the world."—Huxley.
Short game?
It has four bishops
Theme of the "Looking-glass" tale.
Morphy's forte
Scheme of "Looking-Glass" land.
Fischer's forte.
Petrosian's forte.
Game for two.
Game.
Tal's forte.
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