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Image:Checkmate2.jpg|thumb|A chess game
Etymology
From Old French esches, plural of eschec < Vulgar Latin *scaccus < Arabic ARchar|شا� (shah, king in chess) < Persian FAchar|شا� (shah, king).
Pronunciation
enPR|ch�s, IPA|/ʧ�s/, SAMPA|/tSEs/
rhymes|�s
Noun
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- A two-player boardgame 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).
Translations
trans-top|two-player board game
Arabic: ARchar|شطرÙ�ج (šáá¹ranÇ°) m
Armenian: Õ³Õ¡Õ¿Ö�Õ¡Õ¯ (tcatrak), Õ·Õ¡ÕÕ´Õ¡Õ¿ (shakhmát)
Afrikaans: skaak
Bosnian: šah m, santra� m (poetic)
Breton: echedoù p
Bulgarian: t-|bg|�а�|m|sc=Cyrl
Catalan: escacs p
Chinese: � (qi)
Crimean Tatar: �ahmat
Croatian: t-|hr|Å¡ah|m
Czech: t+|cs|Å¡achy|m|p
Danish: skak c
Dutch: schaakspel n , schaken <!--it's a verb, but it's still the standard name of the sport/game-->
Esperanto: t-|eo|�ako|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: t-|et|male
Finnish: Å¡akki (older spelling: shakki)
French: t+|fr|échecs|m|p
German: t+|de|Schach|n
Greek: t|el|�κάκι|n|sc=Grek(skaki)
Hebrew: ש��� (shakhmat') m
Hungarian: t+|hu|sakk
Hindi: (shatranj)
Indonesian: t+|id|catur|xs=Indonesian
Irish: ficheall f
Italian: t+|it|scacchi|m|p
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Japanese: 西���; ��� (chesu)
Korean: �� (gyopan)
Kurdish:
Latin: latrunculi|latrúnculī m|p, latrunculorum|latruncul�rum gen pl
Maltese: t-|mt|�ess|xs=Maltese
Norwegian: t+|no|sjakk|m
Persian: FAchar|شطر�ج (shatranj)
Polish: t+|pl|szachy|m|p
Portuguese: t+|pt|xadrez|m
Romanian: �ah n
Russian: �а�ма�� (šákhmaty) p!
Sanskrit: �त�र�� (�atura�ga)
Serbian:
Slovak: t-|sk|Å¡ach|m, t-|sk|Å¡achy|m|p
Slovene: t+|sl|Å¡ah|m
Spanish: ajedrez m, juego de ajedrez m
Swedish: t+|sv|schack
Telugu: �దర��� (chadaraMgaM)
Turkish: �atranç, satranç, santıraç, santraç
Welsh: gwyddbwyll f
Ukrainian �а�и
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Related terms
chessboard
chess clock
chessman
chess piece
chess set
See also
wikibooks
checkers, draughts
Appendix:Chess pieces
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