chessboard

[ ches-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈtʃɛsˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

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

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Examples from the Web for chessboard

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
The blocks were two inches square and there were eight each way; in fact, it was a copy of the chessboard her father had made.
Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic|Olive Thorne Miller
“The chessboard is not in the place where thou didst find it; go back, therefore, and slay him,” answered she.
The Mabinogion|Lady Charlotte Guest
Europe was a chessboard and with the hand of a skilled master he moved kings, queens, knights, and bishops.
The Rise of the Mediaeval Church|Alexander Clarence Flick

Colonel Murphy and the major had not even been forced to forego the pleasures of the chessboard.
Off on a Comet|Jules Verne
And Naisi asked for the king's chessboard and chessmen; which were brought: and he and Deirdre began to play.
A Reading Book in Irish History|P. W. Joyce

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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