chessboard
the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.
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He announced he was resigning—and leaned over the chessboard to stiffly shake the hand of Joseph Hoane, an IBM engineer who helped develop Deep Blue and had been moving the computer’s pieces around the board.
What the history of AI tells us about its future | Clive Thompson | February 18, 2022 | MIT Technology ReviewShe was 20 when she sat down at a chessboard opposite the 75-year-old conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp.
Eve Babitz, who chronicled and reveled in Hollywood hedonism, dies at 78 | Matt Schudel | December 19, 2021 | Washington PostWho wins and loses is determined by an almost endless collection of factors, a movable chessboard around a basketball court, skill and intellect and physicality in new and unpredictable permutations.
Last week, you navigated an 8-by-8 chessboard, each of whose squares had one piece.
To do so, Washington would have to overcome the reflexive tendency of many of these — India, Pakistan, Russia, Iran — to see Afghanistan as a kind of geopolitical chessboard on which to enhance influence or checkmate another’s.
“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLeo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.
But Indonesia, like most of its Asian neighbors, does not easily fit the stereotype of a piece on a strategic chessboard.
Obama's Awkward Indonesia Trip | Sahil Mahtani, Kenneth Weisbrode | November 7, 2010 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile Saunders sat with his eyes on the chessboard, Eustace walked over to the window and examined the fastenings.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) | VariousNothing disconcerted, her lover remained with her in the house, and they amused themselves with a pack of cards and a chessboard.
The Mysteries of Montreal | Charlotte FuhrerThe Annesley-Setons' first move on the social chessboard was to make use of a pawn or two in the shape of "society reporters."
The Second Latchkey | Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel WilliamsonWon't Cresswell open those sleepy eyes of his when he sees this move of mine on the chessboard?
The Beauty | Mrs. Wilson WoodrowThus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.
Cleopatra's Needle | James King
British Dictionary definitions for chessboard
/ (ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd) /
a square board divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours, used for playing chess or draughts
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