black
- noun
- /blæk/
- As a white player, I am most happy when black plays e6, d5, and e5 on the first move.
- take the black
Examples
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And the luckiest man in Las Vegas puts the whole load on 13 black.
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Thirteen black is up, nobody else is betting.
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The black will designate the duelists.
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Of course, black can immediately regain the piece, but afterwards he will have one way or another to defend a most unpleasant opposite bishop ending.
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In our chess match, I played as the black pieces while my opponent took the white ones.
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The strategy for the black player involves controlling the center of the board early.
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During the checkers game, the black pieces move forward while the white pieces jump over them.
Antonyms
Idioms
A sign that dark clouds are coming and rain may fall, or a joke that things only seem bad
Compounds
- Specialized
An area of space with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it
A group of Black American activists in the 1960s who fought police abuse and fought for equal rights
A thing, like a failing project, that uses a lot of time or money and gives nothing back
A very skilled person in martial arts like karate or judo who wears a dark band at the waist
- Formal
A formal evening dress code for men that requires a black jacket and bow tie
- Specialized
A device on an airplane that records flight information and pilot voices
A sea between southeastern Europe and western Asia that borders countries like Turkey and Ukraine
- Archaic
A group of people with dark skin, often with African heritage, a term now seen as old-fashioned
A fictional king and superhero from Marvel who uses advanced technology to protect his people
A range of mountains in South Dakota and Wyoming, home to Mount Rushmore and sacred to the Sioux
A severe disease in the Middle Ages that spread across Europe and killed millions
- US
A venomous spider from the Americas whose female is black with a red hourglass on the underside of its body
- US
A person who follows the Nation of Islam, a religious group among African Americans in the United States
- Specialized
A system whose inner parts are hidden so you only see what goes in and what comes out
- Specialized
A lung disease from breathing coal dust for a long time that often affects miners
A member of the Black Panther Party who fought for equal rights for African Americans in the 1960s
- Literature
A play or film that makes serious subjects, especially taboo ones, seem funny
- Jargon
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
- Specialized
An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
- Specialized
A form of American English with its own grammar and words, often spoken by African Americans
- Specialized
A person with advanced Six Sigma training who leads projects to improve how a company works
- NSFW
A Palestinian armed group that carried out attacks in other countries in the early 1970s
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word black is used for the darker game pieces because they are the dark color, just like the color black itself.