What is "chesspiece"

Usage examples of "chesspiece".

It weighed about eighty pounds, was about four feet eight inches tall, had long straight black hair pendant from head, had ivory-white skin, and was as exquisitely formed as a slim chesspiece of the King of Kings carved from a single moonstone.

He keeps talking as if I'm some kind of a chesspiece in a game he's playing.

Bathed in that sickly radiance, dressed in elegant rags, the remnants of ball gowns and evening clothes, their movements graceful albeit somewhat stiff, pale couples circled to the inaudible rhythms of a sedate waltz—one inaudible at least to Beheim’s ear—avoiding the numerous small black pools, round as periods, that dotted the expanse, passing in and out of the shadow of colossal statues, warriors, beasts, and so forth, nine or ten of them, that sprouted up at irregular intervals like chesspieces in an endgame.

A Guildsman merged with the cosmos and saw safe paths through the wrinkles of fate, prescient visions that enabled him to guide matter from place to place like chesspieces in a cosmic game.

A Guildsman merged with the cosmos and saw safe paths through the wrinkles of fate, prescient visions that enabled him to guide matter from place to place like chesspieces in a cosmic game.

Uncle Felix got me into a game of Byzantine chess, which was played with normal chesspieces but on a circular board.