chessboard
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chessboards
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Origin of chessboard
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I’d bring over my chessboard and we’d play for hours on his porch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Walking in these diagonal directions, as well as 5 feet in the straight compass directions, shows that many pairs of dots on this giant chessboard are exactly 5 feet apart.
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
The chessboard tumbled from her hands, and now all the other pieces joined the black pawn on the floor.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
At long cafeteria tables dotted with Spindrift cans and chessboards, harried-looking engineers are putting the finishing touches on Claude’s new, ChatGPT-style interface, code-named Project Hatch.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
Over the weekend, a representative from Goliath Games went on NPR and announced that sales of chessboards were up one thousand percent from last holiday season.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 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
The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
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