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orthochess

UK/ˌɔːθəˈt͡ʃɛs/US/ˌɔɹθəˈt͡ʃɛs/

orthochess noun: the conventional game and rules of chess.

Noun

orthochess (uncountable)

  1. (variant) The conventional game and rules of chess.
    • Problems of this sort have been exhaustively dealt with for orthochess (see A Guide to Fairy Chess, p. 39, for tables of results); Haas here presents 59 positions showing his best results for all possible moves, type A.1974, Phillip Cohen, “Chessworld: Magazine Review”, in The Gamesletter, volume 13, number 1/2, Don Miller, page 10
    • Avalanche chess is the same as orthochess, except that every move consists of two parts: (1) a normal legal chess move; and (2) pushing an opponent's pawn one square straight toward you. That's all there is to it really.1992 June, Les Roselle, “What is a Nost?”, in Chess Life, volume 47, number 6, US Chess Federation, →ISBN

Origin of orthochess

From ortho- + chess, probably as a clipping of orthodox chess.

Questions about orthochess

What does orthochess mean?
Orthochess means the conventional game and rules of chess.
What part of speech is orthochess?
Orthochess is a noun.
How do you pronounce orthochess?
Orthochess is pronounced /ˌɔːθəˈt͡ʃɛs/ (UK).

Words near orthochess in the dictionary

  1. orthoceratoids
  2. orthocerid
  3. orthocerids
  4. orthochamosite
  5. orthocharmonium
  6. orthochess
  7. orthochlorobenzalmalononitrile
  8. orthochloronitrobenzene
  9. orthochoanite
  10. orthochoanites
  11. orthochoanitic

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