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Chess vs. Cheese — What's the Difference?

Chess vs. Cheese — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Chess and Cheese

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Chess

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi.

Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product, derived from milk and produced in wide ranges of flavors, textures and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein. It comprises proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep.

Chess

A board game of strategic skill for two players, played on a chequered board on which each playing piece is moved according to precise rules. The object is to put the opponent's king under a direct attack from which escape is impossible (checkmate).

Cheese

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk, often seasoned and aged.

Chess

A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king.
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Cheese

A molded mass of this substance.

Chess

Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus.

Cheese

Something resembling this substance in shape or consistency.

Chess

One of the floorboards of a pontoon bridge.

Cheese

An important person.

Chess

A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

Cheese

To stop.

Chess

Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.

Cheese

(uncountable) A dairy product made from curdled or cultured milk.

Chess

One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.

Cheese

(countable) Any particular variety of cheese.

Chess

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

Cheese

(countable) A piece of cheese, especially one moulded into a large round shape during manufacture.

Chess

A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; - called also cheat and Willard's bromus.

Cheese

A thick variety of jam (fruit preserve), as distinguished from a thinner variety (sometimes called jelly)

Chess

Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

Cheese

A substance resembling cream cheese, such as lemon cheese

Chess

A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king

Cheese

That which is melodramatic, overly emotional, or cliché, i.e. cheesy.

Cheese

Money.

Cheese

In skittles, the roughly ovoid object that is thrown to knock down the skittles.

Cheese

A fastball.

Cheese

A dangerous mixture of black tar heroin and crushed Tylenol PM tablets. The resulting powder resembles grated cheese and is snorted.

Cheese

Smegma.

Cheese

(technology) Holed pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Cheese

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the shape of a cheese.

Cheese

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia) or marshmallow (Althaea officinalis).

Cheese

A low curtsey; so called on account of the cheese shape assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Cheese

(slang) Wealth, fame, excellence, importance.

Cheese

The correct thing, of excellent quality; the ticket.
These cheroots are the real cheese.

Cheese

To prepare curds for making cheese.

Cheese

(technology) To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.

Cheese

(slang) To smile excessively, as for a camera.

Cheese

(slang) To stop; to refrain from.
Cheese it! The cops!
Cheese your patter! (= stop talking, shut up)

Cheese

(slang) To anger or irritate someone, usually in combination with "off".
All this waiting around is really cheesing me off.

Cheese

To use a controversial or unsporting tactic to gain an advantage (especially in a game.)
You can cheese most of the game using certain exploits.

Cheese

To use an unconventional, all-in strategy to take one's opponent by surprise early in the game (especially for real-time strategy games).

Cheese

(photography) Said while being photographed, to give the impression of smiling.
Say "cheese"! ... and there we are!

Cheese

The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.

Cheese

A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese.

Cheese

The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow (Malva rotundifolia).

Cheese

A low courtesy; - so called on account of the cheese form assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending the skirts by a rapid gyration.

Cheese

A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk

Cheese

Erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States

Cheese

Used in the imperative (get away, or stop it);
Cheese it!

Cheese

Wind onto a cheese;
Cheese the yarn

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