chessboard
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chessboards
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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
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.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
The next page showed a picture of a chessboard, upon which all the pieces and pawns rested in their starting positions, except for a black pawn, which had advanced two spaces.
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
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 alternating colors on chessboards should be muted—“soft to the eye, not glaring or highly reflective, as players study the board for hours at a time,” said Mr. Seirawan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 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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