Word.ws English Dictionary

chessboard

chessboard noun: 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.

chessboard: a square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal...
Image: Tiia Monto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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.

chessboard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit

chessboard in Hindi

square board used in the game of chess
बिसात bisāt

chessboard in Tamil

சதுரங்கப் பலகை

chessboard in Urdu

بساط

chessboard in Sanskrit

square board used in the game of chess
चतुरङ्गफलक caturaṅgaphalaka
More languagesFewer languages
chessboard in Tagalog
ahedresan
chessboard in Arabic
رَقْعَة اَلشَّطْرَنْج raqʕat aš-šaṭranj
chessboard in Malay
papan catur
chessboard in Thai
กระดานหมากรุก grà-daan-màak-rúk
chessboard in Vietnamese
bàn cờ

Examples of chessboard in a sentence

  • Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
  • The chessboard they played it out on was the region of Arcadia, which has been described as a plainful of mountains.
  • I’m not a hero, I’m not even a chessboard knight.

All 10 example sentences with chessboard

Forms of chessboard

pluralchessboards
alternative formchess board

Origin of chessboard

From chess + board.

Words formed from chessboard

Phrases with chessboard

Questions about chessboard

What does chessboard mean?
Chessboard means 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.
What is chessboard in Hindi?
Chessboard in Hindi is बिसात (bisāt). See Chessboard meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is chessboard?
Chessboard is a noun.
What is the plural of chessboard?
The plural of chessboard is chessboards.

Words near chessboard in the dictionary

  1. chess-pieces
  2. chess-player
  3. chess-players
  4. Chess960
  5. chessaholic
  6. chessboard
  7. chessboard distance
  8. chessboard distances
  9. chessboardlike
  10. chessboards
  11. chessboxer

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chessboard (page history and authors); chessboard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chessboard (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-chessboard.wav.

Cite this entry: “chessboard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chessboard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.