The word "chessman" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used when referring to the individual pieces used in a game of chess such as a knight, rook, bishop, or king. For example, you might say: "Each chessman was carefully handcrafted by an artisan."
What actually awaited him was psychiatric incarceration, with torturous insulin comas to burn "excess sugars" from the brain.He felt "captured like a chessman", but the brief, fragile remissions were unwelcome too.
Portrayed by the media as the lone chessman of the Western world facing down the evil empire, Fischer put on a brilliant display to win the title, which earned him instant celebrity.
They walk through onion rings, pull themselves upstairs on name tapes tied to hat-pins, and the bust of a chessman lends to their sitting-room "that air which only statuary can give".
Chessman had been sent to reform school and the county jail four times before he was sentenced in March 1941 to San Quentin prison for a term of 16 years to life on several counts of robbery, assault, and attempted murder.
May 27 , 1921Saint Joseph, Michigan May 2, 1960 San Quentin, California Caryl Chessman, in full Caryl Whittier Chessman (born May 27 , 1921 St. Joseph, Michigan, U.S. died May 2 , 1960 San Quentin, California) American criminal whose writings during 12 years on death row made him the symbol of an enduring controversy over capital punishment.
In the following years Chessman made numerous legal appeals and wrote four books Cell 2455, Death Row (1954; expanded ed. 1960), Trial by Ordeal (1955), The Face of Justice (1957), and The Kid Was a Killer (1960), a novel that brought his case to widespread public attention.
Delicate bone carving is very widespread, appearing on such objects as implements, game pieces (such as chessmen), figures (notably crucifixes), and ornaments.
The Vikings carried the game as far as Iceland and England and are believed responsible for the most famous collection of chessmen, 78 walrus-ivory pieces of various sets that were found on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 1831 and date from the 11th or 12th century.
Or just stay on your sofa examining winged Assyrian lions, the chessmen of Lewis, phallic symbols, coins, fishing nets, button badges and the other 4,500 objects in the museum which have been captured in painstaking detail by Street View's digital eye.
They include swords with runes etched in the hilt, ivory chessmen, fine gold jewellery and trade goods like amber and silk.
Napoleon says, on the eve of the battle of Borodino, "The chessmen are set up," but a few pages earlier Pierre has likened war to a game of chess, only to earn Andrei's scorn: "Yes... only with this small difference, that in chess you can think over each move as long as you like, you're outside the conditions of time".
