Wiktionary
n. A human or computer chess that can play the game of chess, i.e. a player skilled in the game of chess.
WordNet
n. someone who plays the game of chess
Wikipedia
A chess player is someone who plays the game of chess.
Chess player or Chess Players may also refer to:
- Chess Player, or Go Player, 2006 Chinese TV series
- Chess Player's Chronicle, a 19th-century British chess magazine
- The Chess Player (Le Joueur d'échecs), 1927 film directed by Raymond Bernard
- The Chess Players, 1876 painting by Thomas Eakins
- The Chess Players, 1977 film directed by Satyajit Ray
- The Chess Players, 1983 sculpture by Lloyd Lillie in Washington, D.C., United States
Usage examples of "chess player".
Stirf Ritter-Rebil (a proper name, he always felt, for a chess player, since they specialize in weird ones, from Euwe to Znosko-Borovsky, from Noteboom to Dus-Chotimirski) lived in a one-room and bath, five blocks west of Union Square and packed with files, books and also paintings wherever the wall space allowed, of his dead wife and parents, and of his son.
You are truly the best chess player I've ever come across, with one exception.
It's not the sort of thing a chess player does, and chess is still their national game.
But it was true, and part of being a great chess player meant accepting the state of play as it actually was, not wishing for something that wasn't.
Just like the chess player had given him something serious to ponder, there was something that he was supposed to get or learn where both rivers met, so he looked out at the massive body of water, concentrating on their nexus as hard as he possibly could.
He lifted the bishop from its square, moved it diagonally a couple of spaces through the air like a real chess player might do, and inserted it in his left nostril.
Yet he was convinced that he not only understood the game perfectly while dreaming, but also was able to play it in the highly strategic manner of the master chess player.