Chess piece - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 07/02/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Chess piece.

6 letter answer(s) to chess piece

BISHOP
  1. (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
  2. a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
  3. port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
CASTLE
  1. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  2. a large and stately mansion
  3. a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
  4. interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
  5. move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
KNIGHT
  1. a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
  2. Chevalier
  3. originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
  4. raise (someone) to knighthood; "The Beatles were knighted"

4 letter answer(s) to chess piece

KING
  1. (chess) the weakest but the most important piece
  2. a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward
  3. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  4. a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
  5. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
  6. one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king
  7. preeminence in a particular category or group or field; "the lion is the king of beasts"
  8. United States charismatic civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968)
  9. United States guitar player and singer of the blues (born in 1925)
  10. United States woman tennis player (born in 1943)
PAWN
  1. (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank
  2. a person used by another to gain an end
  3. an article deposited as security
  4. borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan
  5. leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch"
ROOK
  1. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  2. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
  3. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

3 letter answer(s) to chess piece

MAN
  1. a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man"
  2. a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana"
  3. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"
  4. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"
  5. an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you"
  6. an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
  7. any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
  8. game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games;

5 letter answer(s) to chess piece

QUEEN
  1. (chess) the most powerful piece
  2. a competitor who holds a preeminent position
  3. a female sovereign ruler
  4. an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
  5. become a queen; "her pawn queened"
  6. female cat
  7. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  8. one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
  9. promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess
  10. something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind; "Paris is the queen of cities"; "the queen of ocean liners"
  11. the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
  12. the wife or widow of a king

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Beatnik's exclamation
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Bird in stream hiding head
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Black Prince, say, is reported as something black
Bluebeard's home neat? Yes, finally, for the first time
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Board member?
Caballero
Case having been dismissed, criminals cheat at cards
Castle
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Castle protector, maybe
Castle, in chess
Chap
Cheat that's cornered by knight, initially
Cheat? On board, he goes straight
Chess castle
Chess piece left in class
Chess piece lieutenant put back in box
Chessman
Chesspiece
Chevalier
Class going round rear of medieval fortress
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Cleric with a crook?
Cleric’s blunder before work
Clumsily touch knight — instead of this?
Consort, German essentially?
Conversational evening, Sir?
Corner chesspiece
Corner piece
Corner piece in chess
Court card
Creation at the Creation
Creation on the sixth day
Crew finally returns from Vietnam
Criminal's caught out in scam
Dark period, we hear, for chivalrous type
Defraud - crow
Deposit as security for a loan
Deprive of by deceit
Diagonal mover in chess
Director's opposite
Disliking learning about play
Double checker
Double-decker checker
Doyenne
Dude with cropped hair
Dungeons & Dragons figure
Dungeons & Dragons locale
En passant capture
Endless sexual perversion primarily gratifies royal
Entertained by Tom and Jerry, maybe
Enthusiastic exclamation
ER, say?
Extremely thick to retreat when boxing near champion
Fairy tale dwelling
Fairy tale locale
Fairy ___
Family joined by good man
Family joined by grand royal personage
Feel pain, ultimately, as a man
Fellow
Fellow tailing May Queen's close
Female monarch
Fleece
Fleece - bird
Fortified building
Fortified stronghold and lake in order
Fortify
Fortress
Fortress; rook
Frequent chess sacrifice
Future queen?
Galahad, say
Gawain or Galahad, say
Gent
German following tribe's leader
Good family introduces leading man
Gregarious crow
Grown boy
Hand nannies primarily offer as security
Head of a diocese
Hipster's exclamation
Hive's head
Hock
Hock in pot with top tucked in
Homo sapiens
Hopper around a board
Hornswoggle
Horseman on vacation kept trousers within reach
Human male
Husband a bishop, perhaps
I will not appear in most significant piece
Informal jumper: knitter’s first piece
Island or not?
Isle in the Irish Sea
It can move in any direct
It may be checked
Judge about to imprison German horseman
Judge standing to incarcerate good man
Jumper cut at back end - rip off!
Kasparov's corner man
Keep learner in class
Keep players on leg-side boundaries
Keep the French behind shed
Keep those who play with the French
Kind of snake or crab
King has a change of heart initially, having to trample over crusader
King protector
King's neighbor
King, at the end of the day, is a chess piece
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Least powerful member of
Long for the longer sleepers perhaps half of LNER and one third of LMS used
Lowly chess piece
M1's gender-specific crew
Make a chess move
Male human
Man 8 tailed, for example
Man and wife accepted by god
Man and wife look for gold boxes
Man at home putting on weight
Man describing lewd acts to the audience
Man from Lima in class
Man from London area after leaving pub
Man in a corner
Man in chess
Man in the dark, reportedly
Man is hot, occupying branch office 20
Man listening to salacious stuff
Man moving diagonally
Man nearly detained in Kuwait on vacation
Man of lowest value - the other shot, did you say?
Man offering no initial support for worker in the field
Man on board gets wife into god
Man on board leading woman
Man on board needing to jump on twice
Man on board trying to avoid a mate
Man on board’s obscene material spoken of
Man on board, occupant of crow's-nest?
Man thrown, lake emptied
Man's 21A near Thailand
Man's encore: to go on one leg
Man's run over - fine
Million ___ March
Minor chess piece
Minor chessman
Miter wearer
Monarch
Move at chess? Players initially look edgy
Move king to safer place in fortress
Name for R in rummy?
One dismissed from principal staff
One may be black or white in dark time, we hear
One may be dancing with board member
One may be placed before
One next to a bishop
One on the front line
One on the way to a promo
One who’s dubbed king before the end of the day
One with a round head
One's bound to support black man going on board
Outcome of many a chess p
Overcharge man on board
Pageant winner
Part of truss delivered by Royal Mail
Person in command of isle appears regularly in magazines
Person used to gain an end
Picture card
Piece left in social system
Piece moved in castling
Piece next to a knight
Piece of blancmange
Piece of card
Piece of germanium
Piece of the cloth?
Piece still lacking odd bits, in the event
Piece, central to, or on the far side of, banner
Pile of Yorkshire salt sprinkled on what stuffs chicken
Play card with real finesse
Players leave evacuated fortress
Playing piece has all the actors leave gutted
Powerful chess piece
Powerful piece
Powerful piece from rock band
Promotable piece
Punch out men on the turn, then deck cheat?
Queen's mate
Question very overlooked by fair man
Queued for starter of devils on horseback next to range
Reportedly dark piece
Requesting to put away a second piece
Rip off
Rip off - bird
Rook - mouldy thing with loathsome wings
Royal home
Ruler good, following relations
Ruler of a hive
Ruler's metric measure spanning an imperial one
Ruler, to some extent, back in geometry
Satisfactory after turning up gold chesspiece
Sell a pup to bird
Senior clergyman
Setting for many a fairy
Sir Lancelot possibly to consider returning without giant's head
Smallest man on board?
Social 20 across accepting large, grand residence
Something to do at uncle's place? Read aloud smut!
Song from Callas maybe minutes away
Sort of thinking lacking in man going overboard
Sovereign - bee
Spy's licence to eliminate civilians and corrupted leaders - 0-0, say
Staff
Stooge
Strange cut on debut of new rock band
Superhero name ender
Superstore possibly to ban German cloth rep?
Swindle man on board
Take me dancing with gangster, ultimately becoming part of mob
Team raving about fan
The ___, Franz Kafka novel published 1926
Think about giving welcome to good man
Tom's partner? One in a suit
Top guy, Ali departs African capital having shut up Foreman, finally
Twice jump a little way for a man on board
US civil rights activist, assassinated 1968
US civil rights leader, assassinated 1968
Vessel holding first of wine, hock
Weakest chess piece
Wicked "Snow White" figur
Wife boarding vessel to find man on board
Windsor, for one
Windsor, notably
Word before and after "oh
Word before snake or crab
Word that can follow the
Work, as a battle station
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