People trying to get mates

Usage examples of chessplayers.

Maybe that was why the sight of chessplayers beside the lake had brought him to a halt.

And Jerry, not understanding, for one imaginative moment could imagine a crowd suddenly forming around himexcept for the chessplayers, who would go on playingand gathering up stones to hurl at him, Jerry, the outsider, as soon as these women gave the order.

Nobody even looked up from their own concerns to notice him… One of the chessplayers was a nigger, wearing a gold wristwatch on one brown arm coming out of a short-sleeved pink shirt.

Unless it's them two chessplayers in there, and I'll buy it that it ain't, I haven't even got a guess .