1·Did you use to play chess?
你过去常玩象棋吗？
2·Not able to afford the chess classes, she emailed Makofsky.
由于没钱上象棋课，她给马科夫斯基发了封电子邮件。
3·The board game Go took over from chess as a new test for human thinking in 2016, when a computer beat one of the world's leading professional Go players.
2016年，一款电脑击败了世界领先的职业围棋选手，围棋取代国际象棋成为测试人类思维的新方式。
4·You can argue that learning another language well is more taxing than, say, learning to play chess well—it involves sensitivity to a set of complicated rules, and also to context.
你可能会说，学好另一门语言比学下好国际象棋要费力得多，它涉及到对一套复杂规则的敏感性，以及对环境的敏感性。
5·After only one game, the chess champion had the measure of his young opponent.
仅仅一局过后，国际象棋冠军就摸清了年轻对手的实力。
—— 《牛津词典》
1·He has developed a consuming passion for chess.
他对国际象棋已经产生了浓厚的兴趣。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·He is the unchallenged leader of the chess club.
他是该国际象棋俱乐部未受到过挑战的领导人。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Soon after the young boy won the New York Championship, Makofsky began a GoFundMe activity for Tani and his family so that he could continued his chess journey.
在这个小男孩赢得纽约冠军后不久，马科夫斯基就开始为塔尼和他的家人举办 GoFundMe 活动，这样他就可以继续他的国际象棋之旅了。
4·I can concede that a player's mental attitude can be the deciding factor in an event, for instance, a marathon running or even a less strenuous game such as chess.
我承认，一个运动员的心态可能是一个赛事的决定因素，如马拉松赛跑，或甚至是一个不那么激烈的比赛，如国际象棋。
5·Chess is not a game of chance.
国际象棋不是靠运气取胜的。
—— 《牛津词典》
1·But now, let's play chess first.
现在我们还是先下盘棋吧。
2·Please play chess with me, won't you?
同我下盘棋，愿意吗？
3·Every day was a game of mental chess and we knew how to push each other's buttons, rarely if ever missing an opportunity to do so.
情绪波动总会带来损失，不管是有形的还是无形的。 每天都像是在下一局棋，我们知道彼此的脾气，几乎从不错过任何让对方难受的机会。
4·Life for chess, I am willing to pawn, action is slow, but who have seen the I step back?
人生为棋，我愿为卒，行动虽慢，可谁曾见我后退一步？
5·High overall situation, seeking major event, not the one or two sub - for the final goal of winning chess.
高者顾大局，谋大事，不以一二子为重，终以赢棋为目标。