chesser

plural chessers

1. rareA chess player.

   Earlier this summer I played Nigel Short, the world number three, at what chessers call a charity ‘simul’, or simultaneous display.

   1989 July, Martin Amis, “Chess is Their Life”, in The Times Literary Supplement

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   Where are those principles of fair play that allow both sides a hearing? that give a move to each player in turn? and what neglect of a chesser's analytical powers to make up your mind and decision from the analysis of the moves only of the Attack, not regarding what the Defense can move in reply?

   1877, The Chess Journal, numbers 74-94, page 232

   […] a chesser of old, / Won a game in a shower of gold. / His move had the crowd floored, / And coins showered the board. / (They were paying off bets, I am told.)

   1979, Chess Life & Review, volume 34, page 4

plural Chessers

1. A habitational surname.