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(uncountable) A two-player board game played on a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times.
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A chess variant that employs two chessboards; as each move is made, the moved piece is transferred to the same square on the other chessboard.
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(backgammon) A game in which a player blocks the opponent's progress by forming two or more points in the opponent's home board.
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{{lb|en|backgammon}} A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
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Alternative letter-case form of baduk [An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.]
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A chess variant invented by M. [Monsieur] G. Balbo in 1974.
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A guessing game played on grid paper; see Battleship (game).
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(countable, backgammon) A move in response to being doubled, in which one immediately doubles the stakes again, keeping the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
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(computing) A specialized data structure, a bitset with each bit representing a game position or state, commonly used in computer systems that play board games.
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(board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
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(backgammon) An exposed piece in backgammon.
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Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.
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Alternative spelling of board game [Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.]
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One who plays bridge (card game)
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(shogi) A defense structure in shogi formed by defensive pieces surrounding the king.
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(chess, informal) A chess problem whose solution involves castling.
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A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
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One who plays the game of checkers.
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A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
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A hybrid sport involving alternating rounds of chess and boxing.
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A human or computer that plays the game of chess.
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Alternative spelling of chesspiece
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Alternative spelling of chess boxing [A hybrid sport involving alternating rounds of chess and boxing.]
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Obsolete spelling of chess [A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.]
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Alternative form of Chinese checkers [A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.]
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Alternative spelling of Chinese checkers. [A board game played by two to six people, in which players aim to move their own pieces to the corner opposite their starting position by single moves or jumps over other pieces.]
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A Japanese board game, a form of shogi (Japanese chess) played on a 12×12 board.
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Any of various games for groups of children where players sit or stand in a circular formation.
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(board games) In checkers, to stack two checkers to indicate that the piece has become a king.
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(board games, Britain, Australia, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.
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A form of the board game Scrabble where an announcer draws a set of letters and announces them to the players in the room who all draw the same seven letters, and all players play from the same board position with the same letters.
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A chess variant: chess with unusual rules or pieces.
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(chess) A chess variant that differs from standard chess in that the pieces on the back ranks are almost completely shuffled.
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(backgammon) Any of the twenty-four points on a backgammon board.
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A board game with sixteen checkers, in which one piece (the fox) endeavours to break through the line of the other pieces (the geese), while the geese try to pen up the fox.
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(chess) A fairy piece based on the gaja as used in chaturanga
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(backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
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(board games) A Eurogame.
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(game of Go) A technique for capturing stones by enclosing them in a “net” preventing them from escaping in any direction.
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(board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
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(board games) Alternative form of gobang (“strategy game”) [(uncountable) Gomoku, a Japanese strategy game.]
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(uncountable) Gomoku, a Japanese strategy game.
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An abstract strategy board game, played with pieces from the game go (black and white stones) on a go board with 19×19 intersections, or as a paper-and-pencil game. The winner is the first player to achieve an unbroken sequence of five of their pieces in a row, a column or a diagonal.
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(board games, uncountable) A board game invented by George Howard Monks in which the players' men jump over those in adjacent squares.
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(backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
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A Japanese math game that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers in boxes.
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A children's game in which one player is located on something elevated and other players attempt to take his or her place.
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(countable) The player in this game who stands atop the hill.
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(game of Go) A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.
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A board game used to train military tactics and strategy.
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The configuration of played tiles of dominoes.
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(chess) A queen or a rook.
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A piece or token used in board games such as chess.
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(board games) Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
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A mathematical game, related to nim, in which players move their pieces up and down a column.
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(UK, Australia, New Zealand, games) A two-player game played on a three-by-three grid, in which players take it in turns to place their respective symbol (either a nought or a cross) in a cell of the grid, the objective being to form a row, column or diagonal of three of one's own symbol.
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(board games) The modern form of reversi, differing from the original in having the first four pieces placed in pre-arranged positions.
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Alternative spelling of baduk [An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea, played with 181 black stones and 180 white ones, typically on a board of 19 × 19 squares.]
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A devotee of games played with dice
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(historical) A game similar to chess, played on an oblong board with round, triangular and square pieces.
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A board game in which players advance by successfully identifying the words represented by pictures drawn by other players.
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(mahjong) A set of three identical tiles.
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(mathematics) An extension of a tower on a toroidal chessboard
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(card games, transitive) To score a repique against.
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A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own.
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(by extension) Any situation where strategies are not transitive, meaning each strategy is strong against some strategies and weak against others in a loop such that there is no universally best option.
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(uncountable) A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
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(card games) The play after each deal.
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Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
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(chess) Synonym of Ruy Lopez
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(backgammon) One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table.
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(rare) Any of the pieces used to play the game of tables, backgammon or draughts.
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(uncountable, historical) An ancient Roman game similar to backgammon that was played on a board with 24 divisions.
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(backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.
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(go) The center point on a Go board.
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Alternative form of tic-tac-toe [(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.]
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(games) A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.
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A mathematical puzzle or game which consists of three rods, and a number of disks of different sizes that can slide onto any rod.
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A puzzle in which stacks of disks are moved one at a time from one of three spindles to another so that no disk ever rests on a smaller disk.
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(bridge) A sheet of paper that is circulated with the board of cards, on which players record their scores.
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(mathematics) A mathematical problem where one must determine how many grains of wheat are on a chessboard, assuming one grain of wheat is placed on the first square, and each subsequent square having twice as many grains of wheat as the previous square.
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(board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
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(chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
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(chess, informal, derogatory) A bad player; an amateur.
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(sudoku) A three-cell combination in a sudoku grid which allows the elimination of a candidate in a fourth cell.
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(computer science) A hash function construction used in computer programs that play abstract board games, such as chess and Go, to implement transposition tables, a special kind of hash table that is indexed by a board position. And used to avoid analyzing the same position more than once.
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