1 variant: 棋 qí

1 Chinese chess

2 classifier: 副 fù

1 to play chess

1 five-in-a-row (game similar to tic-tac-toe)

2 Japanese: gomoku

3 gobang

1 the game of Go

1 scattered about like stars in the sky or chess pieces on a board (idiom); spread all over the place

1 to be a step ahead of the opponent (idiom)

2 to outsmart one's opponent

1 to hesitate over what move to make (idiom); to waver

2 to shilly-shally