CHESS MOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chess move mean? 

• CHESS MOVE (noun)
  The noun CHESS MOVE has 1 sense:

1. the act of moving a chess piece

  Familiarity information: CHESS MOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHESS MOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of moving a chess piece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("chess move" is a kind of...):

move ((game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chess move"):

castle; castling (interchanging the positions of the king and a rook)

capture (the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board)

check ((chess) a direct attack on an opponent's king)

checkmate; mate (a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king)

gambit (a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position)

Holonyms ("chess move" is a part of...):

chess; chess game (a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king)