How to Use chess in a Sentence

chess

noun
  • Some are chess moves made with an eye on a team’s five-year plan.
    Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
  • How much has the chess match between Chase and the Chiefs corners evolved over the last year?
    Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 25 Jan. 2023
  • On Thursday, host Julie Chen Moonves teased a look at the house’s kitchen and its chess board.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 28 July 2023
  • That team excelled in close games, a sign of good chess pieces and tactics.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • And Melody, a ghost who plays chess with Phoebe and has her own connection to all of this.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • That was supposed to be the end of humans playing chess.
    IEEE Spectrum, 17 May 2023
  • Football coaching now is a chess match, a survival of the smartest.
    Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • At one of the picnic tables, Lopez’s son has a chess game going as his mom tends the grill.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Jamie plays chess and is always thinking a few steps ahead.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This trend offers the most creative way to display your plants (and play chess).
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Checkers and chess are among the world’s most beloved board games, andcan be played using the same board.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 23 Jan. 2023
  • There’s even one piece that comes equipped with a chess set for those who are ready to sit down for a game at any time or any place.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
  • In the meantime, Justice Thomas set in motion the chess moves for a Supreme Court clerkship.
    Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The second image shows a new take on the classic Big Brother chess board.
    Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • The shelves, and tables, are stocked with chess and other board games as well as magazines and even the New York Times.
    Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • McDaniel has a strong background in offensive chess and not just the flashy stuff.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Dec. 2023
  • In the video, he’s shown using a computer to play online chess.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024
  • That room will also be used to host other games, like mahjong, chess and checkers.
    Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Gio and Dusty are seen laughing with their mom, and one of the daughters plays chess with Levine as bubbles float throughout the set.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023
  • Whereas some players at the camp knew how to play chess, Stroud never had been exposed to it.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Self-play works well to learn a finite, two-person, zero-sum game like chess.
    WIRED, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The Sniper’s chess set, or the Machine Gunner’s oatmeal-sugar masks.
    Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • At that time, the tenants included Marcel Duchamp, who as the story goes had moved in to be closer to the chess club across the street.
    Curbed, 26 Jan. 2024
  • As has been written at this site time and again, the Dodgers are playing chess while many teams are still trying to find the checkers board.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Write your memoir, play challenging games like chess, and read good books.
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2023
  • His ability to win the chess match against the batter is Abbott’s biggest strength.
    Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The defense lawyer and one of the teen’s teachers said that the youth, who was on his school’s chess team, hopes to attend college and study journalism.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Takizawa speculates that chess could be the next game to be solved as a grand challenge.
    Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2023
  • When gunfire broke out at Parkland, Peter was in study hall, playing chess with a friend.
    Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But Elo ratings don’t inherently have anything to do with chess.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 19 Apr. 2024

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