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Western chess

noun

Definitions

  1. Synonym of chess.

    • The want of a queen, and the limited moves of the men, restrict the combination in the Chinese game more than in the Western chess, but it has its own elements of skill.
    • There may be a combination with Chinese chess, which differs both from Western chess and the Japanese version (shogi). The Chinese chessboard has a river in the middle, so this may have been a map at one time.
    • [The] Deputy General ... travels an unlimited number of free intersections orthogonally (in rows and columns), exactly like the Chariot in regular xiangqi or the Rook of Western chess.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA