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chessic en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English chess Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English chessic From chess + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Of or relating to chess.
    • To diagnose your opponent's weaknesses — an over-adventurous style, a dislike for assuming the defensive, overconfidence in certain types of positions, impatience in the endgame, rigidity in choice of openings — requires a psychological as well as chessic analysis. 1972, Readings in Psychology Today
    • As we've already announced, your opponent is in the last stages of chessic caries. 1964, Chess Review:
    • The chessic tribes, peculiar in their gait, / Vary their modes of motion; some march straight, / Direct and forward, some oblique... 1825, Charles Dibdin, The Chessiad:

Deriveds

chessically

Synonyms

scacchic

Translations (4)

pt xadrezístico (of or relating to chess) · fi shakki- (of or relating to chess) · pl szachowy (of or relating to chess) · fi šakki- (of or relating to chess)