Any of the 32 pieces on a certain board

Usage examples of chessman.

The board was pieced from blocks of circassian walnut and birdseye maple with a border of inlaid pearl and the chessmen were of carved ivorv and black horn.

Once he had accidentally broken a crystal chessman, one of the handsome horsemen he loved to play with as he imagined himself among their number, and although the piece was irreplaceable, she had merely ordered a matching piece carved out of wood and had said no more about the incident.

Everyone was down at least two hit points, meaning that their chances of survival had diminished greatly, and the only thing anyone had gained thus far on the expedition was an ivory chessman they found on the beach at Iona.

The fifth, Chessmen, opens with an introduction in which Edgar Rice Burroughs recounts, in first person, the circumstances in which John Carter told him, Burroughs, the tale contained in the book.

Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory, in whose bulk slept, latent, exquisite shapes of chessmen, backscratchers, hollow open-work Chinese spheres nested one inside the other?

I never see it played without thinking of Tara of Helium and what befell her among the chessmen of Barsoom.

The chessmen were beautifully carved, and in this particularset the knights were represented by plumed helmets, while the red pawnshad heads like dogs and the white pawns were little white horses, butit was such a long time since anyone had played with them that theylooked frozen.

The harpsichord, from which she hadliberated that beautiful tune, looked alive now it had been playedupon, but the chessmen and the workbox were still frozen.

And there they all fourwere, Wiggins and Serena sleeping before the fire and Sir Benjamin andMiss Heliotrope beside them seated one on each side of the small tablethat usually stood against the wall with the chessmen and workbox uponit.

Harry, Ron and Hermione shivered slightly—the towering white chessmen had no faces.

But withgrowing frequency he would also carry all the chessmen off the boardand place them on the great lawn.

His employees said that in thisstate he could see the chessmen on the board even though theyweren't there, and so could play against himself without even gettingup from his chair.

The laird made no bones about the fact that one of theobjects of the prospective masquerade was a chess tournament withlive chessmen as a kind of after-dinner entertainment.

Everyone was already aware that a game of chesswas shortly to be played on the marble flags with themselves as theliving chessmen, but the laird had first to allocate each one his or herparticular place on the board.

I'mgood at playing chess against myself, and I'm good at playingwithout chessmen and have always been: first, second, third,fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth rank.