English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "skaak" is 'n strategiese bordspeletjie vir twee spelers, gespeel op 'n geruite bord met 64 blokkies wat in 'n 8x8-rooster gerangskik is. Elke speler begin met 16 stukke, insluitend een koning, een koningin, twee torings, twee ridders, twee biskoppe en agt pionne. Die doel van die spel is om die teenstander se koning skaakmat te maak, wat beteken om dit onder aanval te plaas op 'n manier dat dit nie met die volgende beweging kan ontsnap nie.

Synonyms

  1. cheat
  2. bromus secalinus

Sentence Examples

  1. Maybe this whole time I was just a pawn on a chess board in a game everyone else was playing but me.
  2. Chess is about the ability to recognize patterns and imagine all the possibilities.
  3. At last they emerged outside onto a black and white tiled courtyard, like an enormous chess board, which was a flurry of activity.
  4. But you may be sure that anyone who cannot set out the pieces in a game of chess will never be able to play well, and, if he does not know how to give check, he will not be able to bring about a checkmate.
  5. Both check and chess have their roots in the Persian word, Shāh, meaning King.
  6. The roots of conflict are seldom as black and white as chess pieces the goals cloaked behind rhetoric, deception, and misdirection.
  7. To understand chess we have to embrace survival, and none have faced more determined attempts at annihilation than the Jewish people.
  8. There is much at stake in a battle for a king or a kingdom and religious faith is at the heart of the journey that connects chess, seekers of conquest through perceived divine guidance, and a covenant people.
  9. When Innocent III and Martin Luther were not pursuing religious change, they played chess.
  10. The child, Garik, faced uncertain prospects in chess, even if his light shone bright, because of a name and settled notions of heritage.