chessboard
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Imagine a large chessboard with a dot in the center of each square.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Eventually, in the book’s climactic scene, he faces Mr. Carlsen again in a hybrid tournament, with a digital chessboard, a live audience and extensive security precautions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
“If you move one piece on the chessboard, it changes everything for your next move,” she says.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2025
Shortly after graduating as a civil engineer, he first began volunteering in Katwe as a football coach before deciding on chess - starting up with a single chessboard in 2004 and a determination to help.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
“Remember this one? It shows a picture of a chessboard with only a black pawn out of its original position, and it reads, ‘According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?’
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Nine of the brand’s U.S.-based hotels offer a selection of chessboards that can be sent up to guests’ rooms.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
Chess players are encouraged to sit at separate tables with separate chessboards and call out moves to each other.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2020
Before “Fortnite,” “Minecraft,” “Myst,” “Tetris” and “Pong” there were backyard baseball diamonds, chessboards and hopscotch tiles etched or placed on the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2020
There are footballs, golf balls, softballs, chessboards, Legos–everything a curious kid could dream of–covering our office space.
From Time ● Nov. 2, 2015
There are several chessboards with missing pieces, and pieces without boards of their own lined up on windowsills and bookshelves.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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