Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableboard gamesA type of chess requiring four players and four sets of pieces.
"Who's for a game at Russian chess?" inquired Glover, as they returned to the schoolroom. "The new board has been sent home and the two sets of chessmen made up. George, Walter, Gilbert, will all or any of you play?"
1870, G. Routledge and Sons (publisher), Edmund Routledge (contributor), Routledge's Magazine for Boys, page 1811 more example
During the last three weeks we have introduced the amusement of playing a game at chess with four sets of men (called Russian chess) on our dining-table, which we turn into a board for the purpose by making square upon it.
1876, Margaret Maria Gordon, Hay Macdowall Grant Of Arndilly; His Life, Labours, and Teaching, page 122
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