chessboard
nounEtymology From chess + board.
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Board games, Chess, Games A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
- If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move.2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 4:
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Mathematics, Sciences, Topology A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares.
- Derived terms
- chessboard distance, chessboardlike, Croatian chessboard, rice and chessboard problem, wheat and chessboard problem
- Related terms
- checkerboard, chequerboard, chess, draughtboard, draughtsboard, gameboard