CHESS GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chess game mean? 

• CHESS GAME (noun)
  The noun CHESS GAME has 1 sense:

1. a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

  Familiarity information: CHESS GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHESS GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

chess; chess game

Hypernyms ("chess game" is a kind of...):

board game (a game played on a specially designed board)

Meronyms (parts of "chess game"):

chess move (the act of moving a chess piece)

checker board; checkerboard (a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors)

Domain member category:

development (a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess))

pawn ((chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank)

develop (move into a strategically more advantageous position)

develop (move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions)

stalemate (subject to a stalemate)

castle (move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king)

open (make the opening move)

promote (change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent)

checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)

check (place into check)

fork (place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces)

pin ((chess) immobilize a piece)

queen (become a queen)

white ((board games) the lighter pieces)

queen ((chess) the most powerful piece)

horse; knight (a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa))

king ((chess) the weakest but the most important piece)

castle; rook ((chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard)

black ((board games) the darker pieces)

bishop ((chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color)

counterattack; counterplay ((chess) an attack that is intended to counter the opponent's advantage in another part of the board)

chess opening; opening (a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess)

check ((chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king)

exchange ((chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop)

exchange ((chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value)

en passant ((chess) a chess pawn that is moved two squares can be captured by an opponent's pawn commanding the square that was passed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chess game"):

shogi (a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces)

 Context examples 

It has given us opportunity to cry 'check' in some ways in this chess game, which we play for the stake of human souls.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)