chessboard
noun
chess·board
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Definition of chessboard
: a checkerboard used in the game of chess
Examples of chessboard in a Sentence
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One fan joked the diamond looked like a chessboard. — Sam Fortier, The Denver Post, "MLB wanted to make baseball fun with Players’ Weekend jerseys. It backfired.," 26 Aug. 2019 The superhero movie boom, says Minow, has rearranged a great many pieces on the film-industry's chessboard, opening up a new four-quadrant genre. — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, "Has Disney Cornered the Family Film Market as Rivals Hit Summer Slumps?," 15 Aug. 2019 Perhaps concerns are overblown, and the spawn rate reduction will serve its purpose by keeping the mechs out of final circles and off the strategic chessboard. — Nick Statt, The Verge, "Fortnite’s next tournament will also be its most controversial, thanks to mech suits," 16 Aug. 2019 One strategy is to bring a chessboard to a busy street and wait for someone to play with you. — Kasley Killam, Scientific American, "A Solution for Loneliness," 21 May 2019 His idea was to split the globe up into a grid, like a chessboard, with each square representing a gigantic column of air—a column as high as the atmosphere and as wide as a couple of hundred kilometres. — Hannah Fry, The New Yorker, "Why Weather Forecasting Keeps Getting Better," 24 June 2019 Spencer remembers his introduction: the dorm room with its thin mattress on a wooden platform; his only possessions a Bible, a chessboard and a CD player. — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, "How Do You Say 'Cheesecake Factory' In Mandarin? Behind the Scenes of Life in the Chinese Basketball Association," 27 June 2019 His quest for a good chess match spans from all corners of the locker room to iPhone contests against Fulton to games against a computerized chessboard in his home. — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, "'Three steps ahead': How Cowboys' Amari Cooper leverages chess, Rubik’s Cube to outwit defenders," 9 June 2019 The player will navigate chessboard-like rooms to take down robotic and zombielike minions, all while making her brother clean up the mess. — Todd Martens, latimes.com, "10 games at E3 that made a lasting impression," 14 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'chessboard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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chessboard
noun
English Language Learners Definition of chessboard
: a board used in chess that has 64 squares in two colors
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