chessic
adjEtymology From chess + -ic.
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Rare Of or relating to chess.
- 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:
- As we've already announced, your opponent is in the last stages of chessic caries.1964, Chess Review:
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- 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
- Derived terms
- chessically