Crossword-Solution: CHESS 5 letters, 251 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Chess	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.
Chess	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.

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Word		Anagrams
CHESS	anagram	SECHS

We have 251 clues for the answer “CHESS”

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"A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw	1 answer
"As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler	1 answer
"I failed to make the ___ team because of my height": Woody Allen	1 answer
"Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin	1 answer
"Looking Glass" game	1 answer
"One Night in Bangkok" musical	1 answer
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" game	1 answer
"The Queen's Gambit" activity	1 answer
"The Queen's Gambit" game	1 answer
"The ___ board is the world."—Huxley.	1 answer
"The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal	1 answer
"The gymnasium of the mind," per Pascal	1 answer
"The gymnasium of the mind," to Pascal	1 answer
"Through the Looking-Glass" game	1 answer
"___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin	1 answer
***Game with rooks (1 and 2)	1 answer
*Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil	1 answer
Musical featuring "One Night in Bangkok"	1 answer
1988 Tim Rice musical	1 answer
32-man game	1 answer
32-member board	1 answer
32-piece game	1 answer
32-piece pastime	1 answer
A game of pure skill.	1 answer
Activity requiring four bishops	1 answer
Activity with castles	1 answer
Alekhine's forte.	1 answer
Alekhine's game.	1 answer
Alekhine, Alexander forte	1 answer
An area of U. S.–Russian rivalry.	1 answer
Ancient board game	1 answer
Ancient pastime	1 answer
Basic idea in "Through the Looking Glass."	1 answer
Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___"	1 answer
Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus musical	1 answer
Bishop's millieu	1 answer
Bishops' game	1 answer
Black-and-white set	1 answer
Board game "played" in this puzzle	1 answer
Board game with pawns	1 answer
Bobby Fischer's game	1 answer
Bogart played it by mail	1 answer
Capablanca's game	1 answer
Checkers alternative	1 answer
Checking account?	1 answer
Checking activity	1 answer
Deep Blue specialty	1 answer
Deep Blue's game	1 answer
Deep blue's forte	1 answer
Deeper Blue's game	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

EERTA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CHESS (5)

There are ladder games, games challenging your responses (racer car driving, flight control, war games, subsea games), electronic versions of traditional games like Backgammon, Yatzy, chess and bridge, educational games (geography, mathematics and history), puzzles, fractal programs (drawing beautiful pictures on your screen), psychological tests, text-based adventure games, and other strange and funny creations.

The Online World Odd de Presno 1993

Its library contains a number of rare books, including a fine collection on chess, of which game several of the members are enthusiastic devotees.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

Strickland did not come, but presently we saw the French painter who occasionally played chess with him.

The Moon and Sixpence W. Somerset Maugham 1995

But no further explanation was volunteered; and they saw, by the young man’s manner of concentrating himself upon the chess-board, that he was anxious to drop the subject.

A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995

While we lay at landings, I listened to George Ealer's flute; or to his readings from his two bibles, that is to say, Goldsmith and Shakespeare; or I played chess with him--and would have beaten him sometimes, only he always took back his last move and ran the game out differently.

Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with CHESS (3)

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Marcel Duchamp

That's chess!" snapped Ron. "You've got to make some sacrifices!

J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at hi…

George Orwell 1984

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 278 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).