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Chess vs Checker - What's the difference?

chess | checker |

As nouns the difference between chess and checker

is that chess is a board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king or chess can be a type of grass, generally considered a weed or chess can be (military|chiefly|in the plural) one of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge while checker is one who checks something or checker can be a playing piece in the game of checkers (british: draughts) or checker can be the fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree,.

As a verb checker is

to mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.

chess

English

(wikipedia chess)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A board game for two players with each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
    • Related terms
    * chessboard * chess clock * chessman * chess piece * chess set * computer chess
    See also
    (wikibooks chess) * * checkers * draughts * scacchic

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain; perhaps linked to Etymology 1, above, from the sense of being arranged in rows or lines.

    Noun

    (chesses)
  • A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
  • * 2007 , Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
    • Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (es)
  • (military, chiefly, in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
    • (Wilhelm)
  • * Farrow
    • Each chess consists of three planks.
    (Webster 1913)

    checker

    English

    Alternative forms

    * chequer

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who checks something.
  • The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
    • ''There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts).
    • Derived terms
    * checkerboard
    Related terms
    * exchequer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.
  • To develop markings in a pattern of alternating light and dark spots, like a checkerboard.

    • Etymology 3

    Alteration of (chequer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree,
    • Usage notes
    * Almost always spelled chequer, because the tree itself is native to areas where that spelling is used, and is pretty much unknown in areas that use the other spelling.
    Derived terms
    * checkerberry

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