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chessboard

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The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

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Chapter Three – Looking-Glass Insects: The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. Source: Internet

A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square only once. Source: Internet

By George Dekle Sr. * Three-Man Chess : Three chessboard halves fused into one, first to checkmate wins. Source: Internet

Chess is a recurring image in the first episode: The show’s credit sequence is built around a chessboard, and Al Pacino tells the human chess story to a would-be Nazi hunter played by Logan Lerman over a game of, well, you can probably guess. Source: Internet

Now, time is running out for Tian Tian and Yang Guang to breed, however, before they are returned to Asia where they are furry pieces on the chessboard of international diplomacy, according to author and panda expert Henry Nicholls. Source: Internet

During tests, the rocket was painted in a characteristic black-and-white chessboard pattern, which aided in determining if the rocket was spinning around its longitudinal axis. Source: Internet

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