chessboard

[ches-bawrd, -bohrd]

noun

1. the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.

chessboard

/ ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd /

noun

1. a square board divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours, used for playing chess or draughts

Word History and Origins

Origin of chessboard¹

1400–50; late Middle English. See chess ¹, board

Example Sentences

“If you move one piece on the chessboard, it changes everything for your next move,” she says.

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Finally, Frisch came up with something: place eight queens on a chessboard so that no one queen can capture another.

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Sir Stephen Fry lived up to his brainy reputation over breakfast, by predicting the chessboard was back: "I could be a knight - oh, I already am," he joked.

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Small wonder, then, that her most reliable companion is an AI-powered chessboard, which offers direct answers to her most pressing questions.

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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.

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