chess
chess BrE [tʃes] NAmE [tʃes] noun  uncountable
a game for two people played on a board marked with black and white squares on which each playing piece (representing a king, queen, castle, etc.) is moved according to special rules. The aim is to put the other player's king in a position from which it cannot escape (= to ↑checkmate it).
Word Origin:
[chess] Middle English: from Old French esches, plural of eschec ‘a check’ from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh ‘king’.
Example Bank:
•a star of the chess world
•the position of the chess pieces on the board
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