Chess has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | A pernicious excitement to learn and play chess has spread all over the country, and numerous clubs for practicing this game have been formed in cities and villages...chess is a mere amusement of a very inferior character, which robs the mind of valuable time that might be devoted to nobler acquirements, while it affords no benefit whatever to the body. Chess has acquired a high reputation as being a means to discipline the mind, but persons engaged in sedentary occupations should never practice this cheerless game; they require out-door exercises--not this sort of mental gladiatorship. | |
| 2. | The sooner children have contact with chess, the more possibilities they will have to become skilled chess players or professional chess players. | |
| 3. | Blind chess is a type of chess in which a chess player makes his moves without seeing the board and without making any written record. Therefore, he has to keep all the positions of the game exclusively in his memory. | |
| 4. | Tom and Mary are playing chess with a set of hand-carved chess pieces supposedly made of ivory. | |
| 5. | The Hungarian chess player Judit Polgár is considered to be the best female player in chess history. Her two sisters Zsófia and Zsuzsa are also very gifted players. | |
| 6. | A famed chess café in New York City called Chess Forum has survived the pandemic. | |
| 7. | Computers have been taught to play chess in such a way that today few chess players, if any, in the whole world are able to defeat the machine. | |
| 8. | In 1950, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) created the lifetime title of International Grand Master (GMI), better known in the simplified form Grand Master (GM), which it awards to professional chess players, according to criteria of evaluating their performances in important competitions. | |
| 9. | Currently, chess players have advanced computer programs, such as Alpha Zero, Deep Mind, and Stockfish, to analyze any position in a chess game. | |
| 10. | The use of chess engines is strictly forbidden in formal chess competitions. |