What does scacchic mean?
Scacchic means (rare) Of or relating to chess.
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/ˈskækɪk/ · adjective
(rare) Of or relating to chess.
[…] for although Brunet y Bellet has indeed given a valuable description and reproduction of the Introductory portions of the scacchic part of that MS., he does not pretend to treat the positions of even that section, and has little or nothing to say about the pages filled with examples of other games.
The second theme to feed in from Bloodline is that of playing games. This is certainly true of the scacchic opening, […]
In response to this barbarity, the philosopher Philometer invents chess, effectively replacing the body metaphor with the scacchic metaphor.
Use scacchic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Scacchic means (rare) Of or relating to chess.
Common synonyms include chess, chessic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] for although Brunet y Bellet has indeed given a valuable description and reproduction of the Introductory portions of the scacchic part of that MS., he does not pretend to treat the positions of even that section, and has little or nothing to say about the pages filled with examples of other games.
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