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international chess en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Synonym of chess.
   • Chinese chess (Xiangqi), after international chess the most important variety of the game. 1996, David Vincent Hooper, Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 78:
   • For instance, if we can play badminton, then we can learn to play tennis since playing badminton and tennis share some similar strategy and tricks; if we can play Chinese chess, then we can learn to play international chess by borrowing the similar rules between them. 2023, Jindong Wang, Yiqiang Chen, Introduction to Transfer Learning: Algorithms and Practice, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 4:
   • The differences between international chess, Japanese chess (shogi), and Chinese chess (shiang qi) are significant, but have not been part of psychological investigation. Since international chess and Chinese chess are played at a high level in China, such a study could reveal the psychological impact of these differences. 2004, Fernand Gobet, Jean Retschitzki, Alexander de Voogt, Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 243:
   • Shogi (Japanese Chess) and Chinesse Chess like international Chess^([sic]) are in fact all variants of a wide family of games derived from the Indian game Chaturanga. 1970, John Rose, editor, Modern Trends in Cybernetics and Systems, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, page 648:

Synonyms

chess