noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tennis/chess/badminton etc tournament
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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The art of writing a good chess program is thinking of efficient short cuts through the search-space.
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A good chess player can be a bad contestant, but all three Polgar sisters are superb contestants.
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Like a really good sacrifice at chess .
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The internet could play that role, because it helps to reveal the best side of chess .
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The machines do not play good chess: in fact they play terrible chess.
■ NOUN
board
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It is the sub-plot that succeeds: wheelchair-bound Sir Clifford at home with his chess board and pushy housekeeper Mrs Bolton.
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Richard Chang slides an electronic pawn across the chess board on his computer screen.
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If you wanted to describe the position of the pieces on a chess board you could use a 2 dimensional array.
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But the relationship between computers and chess goes far deeper than the contest for supremacy on the chess board itself.
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Such an array would only represent the chess board at one moment of play.
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Like a chess board , he said.
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Magritte with chess board and painted bottle, photographed by Charles Leirens, 1960.
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From there, he told us, he would imagine the entire chess board laid across the land.
champion
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Tracey Thompson agrees there aren't many schools, especially girls schools which can boast two national chess champions .
game
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They watch the adventurers with curiosity, but continue their chess game .
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The continuing development of multimedia computers suggests that video lessons and video teleconferencing of chess games may not be far off.
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This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well soas to avoid straining the eye.
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The chess game reaches a very different stalemate in the case of the albatross.
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Management of welfare thus follows the course of a large chess game .
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Conrad used the back of his hand to knock the half-played chess game off the low glass table.
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We can have an infinite chess game which will go on for months.
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More like a move in a chess game .
match
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Mr Malik and he had visited Cranborne in order to organize a chess match between the two schools.
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Garry Kasparov won his chess match with the Deep Blue supercomputer.
piece
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Somewhere, hands were moving chess pieces across a board.
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He moves us around like a bunch of chess pieces .
player
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This winning streak caught a lot of chess players by surprise.
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Such games are studied by chess players to improve their own techniques.
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Most chess players would have thought this was inadequate to play Master-level chess even for a machine with superior positional understanding.
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San Francisco cops are clamping down on a new brand of outlaws: sidewalk-hogging chess players .
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Perhaps the most important characteristic of an expert chess player , however, is flexibility when uncertainty arises.
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A certain bench in the park, near the chess players , ordinary things, not unusual in any way.
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A good chess player can be a bad contestant, but all three Polgar sisters are superb contestants.
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It's partly the fault of chess players and match organisers, who did not wholeheartedly support the idea.
set
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The latest one was a chess set , a perfect board and all the pieces individually moulded from sugar paste.
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George Bush got a Desert Storm chess set .
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She recognized his intricate paperweight on the desk, his books, the old chess set , the orderly arrangement of things.
tournament
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Both sides were scrupulously polite, as if participating in a chess tournament .
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Choirs, plays, gymnastics, book discussions, chess tournaments , lectures and crafts classes took place constantly.
world
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Last month the world chess federation Fide accepted a £1.2 million bid from Manchester to stage the championship.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Choirs, plays, gymnastics, book discussions, chess tournaments, lectures and crafts classes took place constantly.
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Like chess , as you say.
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San Francisco cops are clamping down on a new brand of outlaws: sidewalk-hogging chess players.
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She had that stone chess table made too and put inside.
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The only apparent relief from chess were two dolls and a golliwog on Judit's bunk bed.
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Two huge screens above the chess boards carried illuminated chess graphics to display the games.
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Until recently, only the most elite of chess wizards remained beyond the reach of computer chess programs.
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When I got tired of watching the bow or reading or playing chess , I would often watch Morris at work.