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chess board

chess board is the alternative form of chessboard.

Meaning of chessboard

Noun

chessboard (plural chessboards)

  1. A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
    • If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move.2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 4
  2. A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares.

Forms of chess board

pluralchess boards

Questions about chess board

What is chess board the alternative form of?
Chess board is the alternative form of chessboard.

Words near chess board in the dictionary

  1. Chesnutt
  2. Chesnutts
  3. chespaling
  4. chespalings
  5. chess
  6. chess board
  7. chess boards
  8. chess boxer
  9. chess boxers
  10. chess boxing
  11. chess cake

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