Chess vs. Skittles — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chess and Skittles
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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.
Skittles
Skittles (used with a sing. verb) A British form of ninepins, in which a wooden disk or ball is thrown to knock down the pins.
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).
Skittles
One of the pins used in skittles.
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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Skittles
A pub game in which a ball is rolled down a wooden alley in order to knock down as many of the nine skittles as possible.
Chess
Any of several species of brome, especially Bromus secalinus.
Skittles
An informal form of chess played without a clock.
Chess
One of the floorboards of a pontoon bridge.
Skittles
Plural of skittle
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.
Skittles
An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.
Chess
Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
Skittles
Bowling down an alley at a target of nine wooden pins
Chess
One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
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.
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.
Chess
Weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
Chess
A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king
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