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n. A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king.

n. Any of several species of brome grass, especially the cheat.

n. One of the floorboards of a pontoon bridge.

n. A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

n. A type of grass, generally considered a weed.

n. One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. A very ancient game played by two persons or parties with thirty-two pieces on a checkered board divided into sixty-four squares.

n. The common name in the United States of several species of Bromus, especially B. secalinus, which bears some resemblance to oats, and is frequently more or less abundant as a weed in wheat-fields. Also called cheat.

n. One of the planks forming the roadway of a military bridge.

n. An obsolete variant of chase.

n. Obsolete form jess.

n. Dice.

n. weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

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

"Um … The king in chess is supposed to have 8 short spines on top with a single object in the middle to signify that it moves one space in any direction (except when castling)."

brome    brome grass   

chess-type    blindfold chess    red chess   

chess set    computer chess    chessman    chess clock    chessboard    chess piece   

cheat    willard's bromus   

Bess    Es    Etess    Fs    Hess    Hesse    Ins    Jess    Les    Ness   

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