Shahi - A visual dictionary

(noun)
1. A two-player boardgame played with a board of eight rows of eight squares of alternating colours and 16 pieces for each player: eight pawns, two knights, two rooks, two bishops, a queen and a king; the aim is to get the opponent's king in a position on the board such that it cannot avoid being captured (the state known as checkmate).

(noun)
1. A type of grass, generally considered a weed.
  - 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 59:
    Hobbled, loudly gourmandizing the dry chess grass, they were guarded by a pair of dismounted soldiers in long, dusty coats [...].

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