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chess piece

NOUN
  1. any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess

How To Use chess piece In A Sentence

  • Clearly, however, the dictator and his cronies are worried since this is a classic delaying gambit akin to racing chess pieces around the board in a desperate attempt to stave off impending checkmate.
  • For the next three moves nothing existed for me but the sixty four black and white squares in front of me, on which twenty chess pieces fought an intricate dance of death.
  • Chess pieces and chessboards lend themselves to all sorts of puzzles and mathematical investigations.
  • He moves us around like a bunch of chess pieces.
  • For those who haven't seen/read the play, this comes near the end when, alone and rejected, Harry has knocked over all of the chess pieces.
  • The wood of D. melanoxylon is used in carving, turnery and marquetry to produce sculptures, musical instruments, ornaments, inlays, chess pieces. walking sticks, gearings and many other products. Chapter 23
  • Duchamp spent the one week they lived together studying chess problems, and his bride, in desperate retaliation, got up one night when he was asleep and glued the chess pieces to the board.
  • In place of illustrated problems, he combined aspects of the De regimine principium, a contemporary treatise on princely rule composed by the Augustinian Egidius Romanus,274 with a historic account of the chessboard and commentaries on each chess piece. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
  • It's just lots of genial old blokes sitting around whittling chess pieces and playing with marbles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given that the black king, in chess, is sometimes allowed to move diagonally by one square, it follows that there are chess pieces that are sometimes allowed to move diagonally by one square.
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