Answer: CHESS
CHESS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 131 times.
Referring Clues:
- Popular newspaper column
- Castle locale
- Kind of board
- Black-and-white set
- Kasparov's game
- Deep Blue specialty
- Battle of wits
- Deep Blue's game
- Game of kings and queens
- Game with pins
- Mating game
- Game played on 64 squares
- Setting for a check
- "Through the Looking-Glass" game
- Speed ___
- The mating game?
- Game with 16 men on a side
- Game played with bishops
- Game of bishops and knights
- Game with kings and queens
- Its openings are often studied
- Knight's activity?
- Grandmaster's game
- What a patzer plays
- Game with many openings
- Knight's realm?
- Game with at most one mate
- Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues
- Game with gambits
- It has two kings and two queens
- Game of kings and castles
- __ set
- Game with kings and pawns
- Game with kings and castles
- Ancient pastime
- The mating game
- Game of kings and queens?
- ''Through the Looking-Glass'' game
- Where there's a quest for a mate
- Game that features mating
- Endgame game
- Where the queen conquers more than the king
- Game believed to be of Indian origin
- Where the queen travels farther than the king
- Game played with men and a board
- Fischer forte
- Spassky's passion
- Pastime with pawns
- Game with knights
- Game with checks
- Checkers alternative
- Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___"
- It involves one's quest for a mate
- Game with knight moves
- ___ set
- Activity requiring four bishops
- Fischer's forte , once
- Game of forks and pins
- Venerable board game
- Many men get captured in it
- Spassky's game
- Kasparov's forte
- Game with pawns and knights
- It includes a lot of checks
- Fischer's game
- Bogart played it by mail
- Game with forks and pins
- Yanofsky's game
- Game with pawns
- Game with horses
- Mating game?
- Game played with 32 men
- Fischer's skill
- War for 30 men and 2 women?
- Game of strategy
- It may include a checking account
- Magnus Carlsen's game
- Game where the ends of the answers to starred clues are commonly heard
- What a check might be delivered in
- Game in which pieces can be forked
- Game with rooks and pawns
- Deep blue's forte
- Setting for a castle
- 1988 Tim Rice musical
- "As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler
- Match with bishops
- Game with knights and pawns
- Many of its pieces are lost during play
- Game with kings and rooks
- Strategic board game
- Venue in which mating occurs
- Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament
- "Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin
- Game with rooks
- Game with capturing
- Fischer's forte
- Board game with pawns
- Bobby Fischer's game
- Kind of pie or board
- 32-piece pastime
- Board game
- "___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin
- 32-piece game
- Game with a mate
- Game of kings
- Subject game of this puzzle
- *Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil
- Game on an 8x8 board
- Game of kings and pawns
- Game with grand masters
- ***Game with rooks (1 and 2)
- Game with queens
- Game in Vonnegut's "All the King's Horses"
- Musical with the song "Endgame"
- Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin
- Ancient board game
- "The gymnasium of the mind," per Pascal
- Judit Polgar's game
- Nona Gaprindashvili's game
- "The Queen's Gambit" game
- Game that can end in two moves
- Where queens are most powerful
- Game of checkers?
- "The gymnasium of the mind," per Blaise Pascal
- Activity with castles
- It has thousands of openings
- Game with castling
- Board game combined with boxing in a hybrid sport
- "A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time," per Shaw
- Game with grandmasters
- "The Queen's Gambit" activity
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 20, 2025
- USA Today - September 30, 2025
- LA Times - May 19, 2025
- LA Times - December 09, 2024
- LA Times - December 03, 2023
- LA Times - September 18, 2023
- New York Times - June 15, 2023
- USA Today - June 09, 2023
- USA Today - May 29, 2023
- USA Today - January 27, 2023
- New York Times - May 22, 2022
- LA Times - April 15, 2022
- New York Times - February 21, 2022
- LA Times - January 25, 2022
- New York Times - January 05, 2022
- New York Times - December 24, 2021
- New York Times - August 14, 2021
- Netword - May 20, 2021
- Universal - May 08, 2021
- Universal - March 09, 2021
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