chessboard

[ ches-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈtʃɛsˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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noun

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

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Origin of chessboard

1400–50; late Middle English. See chess¹, board

Words nearby chessboard

Cheshunt, Cheshvan, cheskey, Chesnutt, chess, chessboard, chessboxing, chess clock, chessel, chessman, chess pie

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How to use chessboard in a sentence

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 Review
She 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 Post
Who 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.
The Stat That Defines Each WNBA Playoff Team|Howard Megdal|September 21, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Last week, you navigated an 8-by-8 chessboard, each of whose squares had one piece.
Will Riddler Nation Win Gold In Archery?|Zach Wissner-Gross|July 30, 2021|FiveThirtyEight

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.
The Endgame in Afghanistan: Darker Clouds Gather|Tracy Moran|July 28, 2021|Ozy
“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|DAILY BEAST
Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.
The Stars Predict Your Week|Starsky + Cox|August 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
While 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)|Various
Nothing 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 Fuhrer
The 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 Williamson
Won't Cresswell open those sleepy eyes of his when he sees this move of mine on the chessboard?
The Beauty|Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.
Cleopatra's Needle|James King

British Dictionary definitions for chessboard

chessboard

/ (ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd) /

noun

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

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