1. chess
Chess and checkers are favorites with them.
How many different pieces are there in Japanese chess?
John likes chess.
When it's hot, I go swim. When it rains, I like to play chess.
The talented young chess player is very bold. He deliberately lays himself open to attack, makes himself vulnerable and then checkmates his opponent when least expected.
Chess is a highly intellectual game.
In real life kings are powerful, but in chess they're pretty much worthless.
Japanese shogi corresponds to chess.
The chess player put his opponent in check.
Justine made short work of her opponents in her own personal variant of chess.
I moved a chess piece on the board one forward.
I love playing chess even though its not a popular game nowadays.
I don't like chess – I think it's a really boring game.
He carried off the first prize at the chess tournament.
Chinese strategists are said to be go players, whereas Western ones have the reputation of being chess players.
2. piece
Before forks and chopsticks, people usually ate food with a piece of flat bread.
piece of cake
A piece of railway in use today is therefore the product of a long series of decisions reached on many different grounds, at different times.
My sister didn't own up to breaking the lamp, instead she made up some story about aliens coming to Earth with the objective of destroying every piece of yellow furniture.
You and David should totally learn that piece and play it at the talent show next year.
People ask me 'why would you want to cherish a piece of junk like that?' But this little beauty means the world to me.
He was still mumbling something about hospitals at the end of the party when he slipped on a piece of ice and broke his left leg.
Boston Dynamic's robot, RHex, is an amazing piece of work that can run over various terrains.
Yes, Dima replied, brushing off a piece of half-eaten fish that had gotten stuck to his right sleeve. "I'd like to buy that one there."
Yesterday, I found a tiny piece of land for sale in a quiet residential area and I immediately decided to buy it.
You're not a serious mathematician unless you crumple up a piece of paper in frustration every twenty minutes, look off into space, and appear to be questioning your very existence.
My grandfather had completed the wood work and my grandmother finished the piece with paint.
Every piece of reading matter calls for a different kind of reading.
A musician friend of mine gave an impromptu performance of a piece he had just finished composing.
John claimed that the dishonest salesman had tricked him into buying a useless piece of machinery.
3. check
Check, please.
In the U.S., it is common for people to write a check instead of paying cash.
I check off each task on my list as soon as I complete it.
When it is appraised, in order to check the authenticity and state of preservation of the painting, the real thing has to be borrowed from its owner.
Christopher Columbus has never, ever needed a native check.
The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
What happened to your nose? "When I was backing my car up I went to check behind me, convinced that the car window was open, and bashed my face into it!"
Therefore I'm giving up for now. I'll still try to check out other possibilities but ... I think hopes are slim.
If I were invisible for 24 hours, I would fill in lots of checks.
Hope is when you suddenly run to the kitchen like a mad man to check if the empty chocolate cookie box you just finished an hour ago is magically full again.
When I got worried and went to check on him, it looked like he'd barricaded himself in the department's toilet and wasn't coming out.
Quiet! Everybody stay where they are, there will now be a possessions check.
Location check: The parties involved themselves or their attendants should look over the place for the miai meeting in advance.
When Yoko and I heard the sirens stop nearby, we quickly decided to go check it out.
4. chess club