chess

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played mainly in domestic chess tournaments and Finnish

Chess Championships .

Il a joué principalement dans les tournois d'échecs nationaux et les championnats d'échecs finlandais.

(Anglais)

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

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/t͡ʃɛs/

Hérité de moyen anglais

Appartenant à allemand

Appartenant à italien

Appartenant à français

Appartenant à catalan

Appartenant à néerlandais

Appartenant à français

In summary

From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /⁠šāh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/). Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).