chessboard

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,672 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: chessboards

A chessboard is the squared board the game of chess is played on. Set up the chessboard, across the chessboard, a marble chessboard.

It has sixty-four squares, and the white one goes on each player's right, which is the first thing anybody gets wrong. The same board is used for draughts. Figuratively it means an arena where moves are calculated against an opponent.

Definitions of chessboard

1nounchessboardThe squared board the game of chess is played on.B1+
“He set up the pieces on the chessboard and invited me to play.”

chessboard is a board.

Where it comes from

Chess plus board. Chess comes from Old French esches, the plural of eschec, a check.

From chess + board.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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A chessboard is a game board used to play chess.
Chessboard
Atrani is linked by a bridge to a tower in the water, which is simultaneously a rook standing on a chessboard.
Metamorphosis II
There are other chess pieces in the water and the water becomes a chessboard.
Metamorphosis II
A chess set consists of a chessboard and (nominally) 'white' and 'black' chess pieces for playing chess.
Chess set
In graph theory, a knight's graph, or a knight's tour graph, is a graph that represents all legal moves of the knight chess piece on a chessboard.
Knight's graph

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