Chess

Etymology 1
From esches:, plural of eschec: <  undefined: <  شاه: <  شاه:.

Noun

 * 1) A two-player board game played with a board of eight rows of eight squares of alternating colours and 16 pieces for each player: eight pawns, two knights, two rooks, two bishops, a queen and a king; the aim is to get the opponent's king in a position on the board such that it cannot avoid being captured (the state known as checkmate).

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

Noun

 * 1)  A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
 * 2) * 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
 * Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

Thesaurus
Monopoly, Ping-Pong, Rugby, Scrabble, archery, association football, backgammon, badminton, bagatelle, ball, bandy, baseball, basketball, battledore and shuttlecock, beano, billiards, bingo, bowling, bowls, boxing, cat, catch, charades, checkers, climbing, crambo, cricket, croquet, curling, discus, dominoes, draughts, fencing, fishing, fives, football, ghost, gliding, go, golf, handball, hide-and-seek, hiking, hockey, hopscotch, horseshoes, hunting, hurdling, ice hockey, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, keno, lacrosse, lawn tennis, leapfrog, lotto, luging, marbles, merels, motorcycling, mountaineering, mumble-the-peg, ninepins, pall-mall, pallone, pelota, polo, pool, post office, pushball, pyramids, quintain, quoits, racquets, riding, roller skating, rounders, rowing, sailing, sailplaning, sculling, shinny, shooting, shot-put, shuffleboard, skating, skeet, skeet shooting, ski-jumping, skiing, skin-diving, skittles, sledding, snooker, snorkel diving, snowmobiling, soccer, softball, sports, squash, stickball, surfing, table tennis, tennis, tenpins, tent pegging, tetherball, ticktacktoe, tiddlywinks, tilting, tipcat, tivoli, tobogganing, trapshooting, tug of war, volleyball, water polo, waterskiing, wrestling

Noun

 * Afrikaans: skaak
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ሰንጠረዥ
 * Arabic: (šáṭranǰ)
 * Aragonese: axedrez
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: axedrez
 * Azeri:
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque: xake
 * Bengali: দাবা
 * Bosnian: šah, santrač
 * Breton: echedoù
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 西洋棋
 * Chuvash:
 * Crimean Tatar: şahmat
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: schaakspel, schaken
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: шахмат
 * Korean: 교판 (gyopan), 체스
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: شه‌تڕه‌نج


 * Latin: latrúnculī, latrunculṓrum gen pl
 * Latvian: šahs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Aukštaitian: šachmatai
 * Samogitian:
 * Lojban: caxmati
 * Macedonian: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Marathi: बुद्धिबळ
 * Mongolian: шатар
 * Nahuatl:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: (shatranj)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਸ਼ਤਰੰਜ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: चतुरङग (ćaturaṅga)
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: шах, сантрач
 * Roman: šah, santrač
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ajedrez, juego de ajedrez
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: шатранҷ, шоҳмот
 * Telugu: చదరంగం (chadaraMgaM)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: шахи
 * Uzbek: shaxmat
 * Volapük: cög
 * Waray:
 * Welsh: gwyddbwyll
 * Yakut:

Related terms

 * chessboard
 * chess clock
 * chessman
 * chess piece
 * chess set
 * computer chess