Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game board marked with 64 squares, used in playing chess.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The board used in the game of chess; a checker-board.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See
checkerboard .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The square
board used in the game ofchess ,subdivided into eight rows of eight squares each, the squares in each row and column being of alternating colours.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a checkerboard used to play chess
- noun a checkerboard used to play chess
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Examples
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"One cannot ignore the fact that this chessboard is populated by people who have to endure [this crisis] every day," Kurtzer says, point out how Israel considers it absolutely unacceptable to come under constant rocket bombardment from Palestinian areas and how Palestine considers it absolutely unacceptable for Israeli reprisals to carry such "civilian cost."
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Edward Lucas in The Telegraph, his article entitled "Russia sees us as pawns on its chessboard" is well written, nicely analytical and very very worrying.
Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The question that confronts you sitting at the chessboard is not: What are the rules here?
On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.) M-mv 2005
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A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares 2010
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A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares 2010
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A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares 2010
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A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares 2010
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Our Losties were just another set of players on their giant chessboard aka The Island.
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Will sentencing day mean checkmate for Russia's so called chessboard killer?
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Rice on a chessboard is a good way to explain the power of doubling.
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The UVW was using a variation on an old tactic from the 1970s, called the chessboard strike, in which rapid changes in strike plans among alternating sections of the workforce lead to chaos in the workplace.
Striking Workers Are Bringing Back 1970s 'Mindfuck' Tactics Callum Cant 2019
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