chess-player

See also: chess player and chessplayer

English

Noun

chess-player (plural chess-players)

1. Alternative form of chess player.
   • 1803 July 31, The Observer, number 605, page [3], column 1:

     The ardent spirit of the First Consul deprecates inactivity, and with a skilful eye looks forward as many moves as an expert Chess-player.

   • 1841 March, Edgar A[llan] Poe, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, in George R[ex] Graham, Rufus W[ilmot] Griswold, editors, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. […], volume XVIII, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: George R. Graham, published April 1841, →OCLC, page 166, column 1:

     Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other.

   • 1867 March 13, “C.”, “Games”, in The Advocate, volume III, number I, Cambridge, Mass.: Published […], by the students of Harvard College; press of John Wilson and Son, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:

     The chess-player also has need of a quick eye and a steady nerve; […]

   • 2009, Keith Spicer, Paris Passions: Watching the French Being Brilliant and Bizarre, BookSurge, →ISBN, page 43:

     Cuddling is what an epidemic of lovers are doing all around us on this nippy, dazzling day. Entangled in each other like doting octopi, sweethearts are seizing the day, the hour, the magic minute. And frankly, my dear, they don’t give a damn about us. Neither do the tai chi folks, pétanque players, tae kwon-do enthusiasts, oriental sword-twirlers, tennis jocks, wistful old ladies, kids on ponies, joggers, képi-capped guards, bistro waiters, chess-players, pipi ladies (50 centîmes for the loo, s’il vous plaît) or pigeons.

   • 2014 January 31, Jasmine Gardner, “The £400m megamind”, in Evening Standard, page 20:

     He was a champion chess-player in his early teens, finished his A-levels at 16, built a multi-million-selling videogame by 17, got a double First in computer science from Cambridge, a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at UCL, published research in neuroscience that was listed as one of the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2007 and became an academic at MIT and Harvard.