# Chaining and boosting multi\_match queries
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/chaining-and-boosting-multi-match-queries/39064
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [January 13, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/chaining-and-boosting-multi-match-queries/39064 "2016-01-13T07:01:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@siegdubhy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/siegdubhy)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/chaining-and-boosting-multi-match-queries/39064/1 "2016-01-13T07:01:48Z")
Hi,
I need a query that does something like this:
query: {
multi\_match: { //(may be a should)
... ,
operator: and,
boost: 10
},
multi\_match: { //(may be a must)
... ,
operator: or
}
}
I can't seem to be able to build a bool query with multi\_matches nor can I do anything similar. (I'm not sure if it is not possible or if I'm just screwing up the syntax/logic)
The query is to be used for address searching (2 identical index fields with full address, one hooked up to edge ngram 3:25, and the other to an exact matcher) by a single query string (which may also contain full address). What I would like to achieve here is boosting the documents that match full tokens.
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### Author:  [@javanna](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/javanna)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/chaining-and-boosting-multi-match-queries/39064/2 "2016-01-13T16:09:40Z")
Bool query seems the way to go. Can you post what you have tried please?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/chaining-and-boosting-multi-match-queries/39064/3 "2017-07-05T23:24:51Z")