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English
Etymology
From chess + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
chesser (plural chessers)
- (rare) A chess player.
1877, The Chess Journal, numbers 74-94, page 232: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?
1979, Chess Life & Review, volume 34, page 4:[…] 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.)
1989 July, Martin Amis, “Chess is Their Life”, in The Times Literary Supplement:Earlier this summer I played Nigel Short, the world number three, at what chessers call a charity ‘simul’, or simultaneous display.