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Any board used in the game chess
A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in
Chessboard
Russian serial killer
Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bittsa Park Maniac (Битцевский
Alexander_Pichushkin
Mathematical problem
chessboard problem (sometimes expressed as the rice and chessboard problem) is a mathematical problem expressed in textual form as: If a chessboard were
Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
Mathematical metric
known as chessboard distance, since in the game of chess the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another
Chebyshev_distance
Mathematical problem set on a chessboard
queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires that
Eight_queens_puzzle
On domino tiling after removing two corners
The mutilated chessboard problem is a tiling puzzle posed by Max Black in 1946 that asks: Suppose a standard 8×8 chessboard (or checkerboard) has two
Mutilated_chessboard_problem
Mathematical paradox and logic puzzle
The chessboard paradox or paradox of Loyd and Schlömilch is a falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion. A chessboard or a square with a side length
Chessboard_paradox
Chessboards arise frequently in computer vision theory and practice because their highly structured geometry is well-suited for algorithmic detection
Chessboard_detection
1997 book by Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) is one of the major works of Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski graduated with
The_Grand_Chessboard
Mathematical object in topological graph theory
A chessboard complex is a particular kind of abstract simplicial complex, which has various applications in topological graph theory and algebraic topology
Chessboard_complex
American investigative journalist and editor
winters of discontent" (Washington Post). Talbot's 2015 book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government is
David_Talbot
2024 video game
website. In 2025, Royalty released One Million Chessboards, a website containing one million chessboards, as a successor to One Million Checkboxes. One
One_Million_Checkboxes
Mathematical problem set on a chessboard
A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. If the knight ends on a square
Knight's_tour
Optical illusion
based on a few simple properties of the Fibonacci sequence. Sam Loyd's chessboard paradox demonstrates two rearrangements of an 8×8 square. In the "larger"
Missing_square_puzzle
Fermion path integral approach in 1+1 dimensions
The Feynman checkerboard, or relativistic chessboard model, was Richard Feynman's sum-over-paths formulation of the kernel for a free spin-1/2 particle
Feynman_checkerboard
Mathematical graph relating to chess
moves of the knight chess piece on a chessboard. Each vertex of this graph represents a square of the chessboard, and each edge connects two squares that
Knight's_graph
Board with an alternating square pattern on which games are played
used to play many other games, including chess, whereby it is known as a chessboard. Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards
Checkerboard
Generating polynomial of the number of ways to place non-attacking rooks on a chessboard
to put a rook. The board is the ordinary chessboard if all squares are allowed and m = n = 8 and a chessboard of any size if all squares are allowed and
Rook_polynomial
King of Arfderydd
of one of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain: a magical chessboard / gwyddbwyll board. If the pieces were set, they would play by themselves
Gwenddoleu_ap_Ceidio
Graph of chess rook moves
moves of the rook chess piece on a chessboard. Each vertex of a rook's graph represents a square on a chessboard, and there is an edge between any two
Rook's_graph
2023 song by Higedan
“Chessboard / Nichijō” is the sixth single by Japanese band Official Hige Dandism, released on September 13, 2023, by IRORI Records under Pony Canyon.
Chessboard_/_Nichijō
Mathematical graph relating to chess
moves of the queen—a chess piece—on a chessboard. In the graph, each vertex represents a square on a chessboard, and each edge is a legal move the queen
Queen's_graph
Mathematical graph relating to chess
legal moves of the chess piece the bishop on a chessboard. Each vertex represents a square on the chessboard and each edge represents a legal move of the
Bishop's_graph
Overview of and topical guide to chess
guide to chess: Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard with 32 pieces. Chess can be described as all of the following: Form of
Outline_of_chess
Mathematical theorem
combinatorial topology, the Steinhaus chessboard theorem is the following theorem, due to Hugo Steinhaus: Consider a chessboard on which some cells contain landmines
Steinhaus_chessboard_theorem
Type of metric geometry
Comparison of Chebyshev, Euclidean and taxicab distances for the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle on a chessboard
Taxicab_geometry
Woodcut print by M. C. Escher
simultaneously a rook standing on a chessboard. There are other chess pieces in the water and the water becomes a chessboard. The chessboard leads to a checkered wall
Metamorphosis_II
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
through the pages of the algorithm and carrying out its instructions on a chessboard, taking about half an hour per move. The game was recorded. According
Alan_Turing
Problems in mathematics concerning chessboard or the sport chess
mathematical chess problem is a mathematical problem which is formulated using a chessboard and chess pieces. These problems belong to recreational mathematics. The
Mathematical_chess_problem
Fairy chess piece; jumps two squares diagonally
"thrice-colourbound", only being able to reach an eighth of the squares on the 8×8 chessboard; combining it with other pieces usually masks this weakness to some extent
Alfil
Topics referred to by the same term
column of troops one in front of the other File (chess), a column of the chessboard Filé powder, a culinary ingredient used in Cajun and Creole cooking Filé
File
Welsh mythical objects
chariot), clothing (coat, mantle) and still other items (stone and ring, chessboard). Most of the items are placed in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", the Brittonic-speaking
Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain
Thirteen_Treasures_of_the_Island_of_Britain
Graph of king moves on a chessboard
all legal moves of the king chess piece on a chessboard where each vertex represents a square on a chessboard and each edge is a legal move. More specifically
King's_graph
French painter
Baugin—Still life with Apricots, Still life with Candlestick, Still life with Chessboard (also known as The Five Senses), and Still life with Water Wafers—were
Lubin_Baugin
Type of puzzle
Zeno's paradoxes Monty Hall problem Bedlam cube Conway puzzle Mutilated chessboard problem Packing problem Pentominoes tiling Slothouber–Graatsma puzzle
Mathematical_puzzle
as if they had castled. attack An aggressive action on a part of the chessboard, or to threaten the capture of a piece or pawn. Antonym: defense
Glossary_of_chess
Variation of chess
Infinite chess is any variation of the game of chess played on an unbounded chessboard. Versions of infinite chess have been introduced independently by multiple
Infinite_chess
Study of geography's effects on politics
War, writing books on the subject in the 1990s—Diplomacy and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. The Anglo-American
Geopolitics
Game piece for playing chess
A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one
Chess_piece
Path in a graph that visits each vertex exactly once
Even earlier, Hamiltonian cycles and paths in the knight's graph of the chessboard, the knight's tour, had been studied in the 9th century in Indian mathematics
Hamiltonian_path
Species of fish
Starksia sluiteri, the chessboard blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of Brazil
Starksia_sluiteri
Spanish chess player
wearing a mask and a black and white checkered costume, resembling a chessboard, and a voice changer. However, in interviews he has given some details
Rey_Enigma
Configuration of pawns on a chessboard
(sometimes known as the pawn skeleton) is the configuration of pawns on the chessboard. Because pawns are the least mobile of the chess pieces, the pawn structure
Pawn_structure
Natural number
A chessboard has 64 squares.
64_(number)
If there are more items than boxes holding them, one box must contain at least two items
problem for the number of points that can be placed on an n × n lattice without any three being collinear – in this case, 16 pawns on a regular chessboard
Pigeonhole_principle
Game of chess via postal system or e-mail
contrast to over-the-board (OTB) chess, where the players sit at a physical chessboard at the same time; and most online chess, where the players play each other
Correspondence_chess
Length of a line segment
Comparison of Chebyshev, Euclidean and taxicab distances for the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle on a chessboard
Euclidean_distance
Family of polymers
This silicone rubber folding chessboard resists creasing and wrinkling.
Silicone
Mathematical problem set on a chessboard
path is a mathematical problem involving a knight on the standard 8×8 chessboard or, more generally, on a square n×n board. The problem is to find the
Longest uncrossed knight's path
Longest_uncrossed_knight's_path
MU according to a set of rules. Mutilated chessboard problem – Place 31 dominoes of size 2×1 on a chessboard with two opposite corners removed. Coloring
List_of_impossible_puzzles
Website tracking a series of trades
the Hill-side Hans in Luck Straw Millionaire Trade Me Project Wheat and chessboard problem "From paper-clip to house, in 14 trades – Canada – CBC News".
One_red_paperclip
Growth of quantities at rate proportional to the current amount
Sissa Ben Dahir presented an Indian King Sharim with a beautiful handmade chessboard. The king asked what he would like in return for his gift and the courtier
Exponential_growth
Painting
painter Albertus Pictor. The painting depicts a man and a skeleton at a chessboard. Above them is a ribbon, now faded, which once read "Jak spelar tik matt"
Death_playing_chess
Geometry problem on grid points
recreational mathematics, phrased in terms of placing the 16 pawns of a chessboard onto the board so that no three are in a line. This is exactly the no-three-in-line
No-three-in-line_problem
1993 role-playing game supplement
Chessboards: The Planes of Possibilities is a book published by Wizards of the Coast (WotC) in 1993 that is a supplement to The Primal Order, WotC's first
Chessboards: The Planes of Possibilities
Chessboards:_The_Planes_of_Possibilities
Mathematical puzzle
sequence of 14 moves of a chess queen passing through all the squares of a chessboard and returning to the starting square; this can be considered as a "64
Nine_dots_puzzle
Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890
sudden lurches by the other actors, states, and their statesmen. The chessboard could be overseen and it suited Bismarck's peculiar genius for politics
Otto_von_Bismarck
Mathematical space with a notion of distance
Comparison of Chebyshev, Euclidean and taxicab distances for the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle on a chessboard
Metric_space
1997 American animated short film
shorts with feature films. In a park, an elderly man named Geri sets up a chessboard, puts on his glasses, and makes his first move, playing as white. Since
Geri's_Game
Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990
weigh all possible consequences before we make any move on the political chessboard. Lee began to seek international recognition of Singapore's independence
Lee_Kuan_Yew
Shape with four equal sides and angles
with the 361 crossings of its lines representing days of the year. The chessboard inherited its square shape from a pachisi-like Indian race game and in
Square
Chess-playing automaton hoax (1770–1854)
inside the machine to see which pieces moved where on the chessboard. The underside of the chessboard was marked with squares numbered 1 to 64, helping the
Mechanical_Turk
Theorem in topology
binary image, the 6-neighbor square grid is generally used. The Steinhaus chessboard theorem in some sense shows that the 4-neighbor grid and the 8-neighbor
Jordan_curve_theorem
Chess game with actual people as figures
place of pieces. The game is typically played outdoors, either on a large chessboard or on the ground, and is often played at Renaissance fairs. In Vietnam
Human_chess
National symbol of Croatia and Croats
control over the cities of Dalmatia as well. He then incorporated the chessboard pattern into his coat of arms to commemorate this triumph. However, the
Croatian_checkerboard
Graphical user interface for chess games
XBoard is a graphical user interface chessboard for chess engines under the X Window System. It is developed and maintained as free software by the GNU
XBoard
American media personality (born 1955)
Things Kardashian: "I started to look at our careers like pieces on a chessboard...Every day, I woke up and walked into my office and asked myself, 'What
Kris_Jenner
Two-dimensional packing problem
A mutilated chessboard, an optimal packing for n2 − 2 squares
Square_packing
Number of ways to pair up n objects
telephone numbers count the number of ways to place n rooks on an n × n chessboard in such a way that no two rooks attack each other (the so-called eight
Telephone number (mathematics)
Telephone_number_(mathematics)
Vector distance function
taxicab/Manhattan distances for the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle on a chessboard (represented by a king, an ant, and a wazir). The wazir moves like a rook
Minkowski_distance
2010 Film by Tim Burton
and stop the Red Queen for good. The Queens gather their armies on a chessboard-like battlefield and send Alice and the Jabberwocky to decide the battle
Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)
Fundamental operation on complex numbers
Physicists, 1985, pg. 201 Budinich, P. and Trautman, A. The Spinorial Chessboard. Springer-Verlag, 1988, p. 29 See Exponentiation#Non-integer powers of
Complex_conjugate
Predominantly Scottish cloth pattern
becomes. Unlike in simple checker (chequer) or dicing patterns (like a chessboard), no solid colour in a tartan appears next to another solid colour, only
Tartan
Four squares connected edge-to-edge
a rectangle. This can be shown with a proof similar to the mutilated chessboard argument. A 5×4 rectangle with a checkerboard pattern has 20 squares,
Tetromino
Painting by Sofonisba Anguissola
unnamed housemaid (top right). It is signed and dated on the edge of the chessboard, where Anguissola left the following inscription in Latin: SOPHONISBA
The Game of Chess (Sofonisba Anguissola)
The_Game_of_Chess_(Sofonisba_Anguissola)
Chess variant played with rule-modifying cards
a translation of a French game Tempête sur l'échiquier (Storm on the Chessboard), designed by Pierre Cléquin and Bruno Faidutti. A stand-alone 80 card
Knightmare_Chess
Japanese pop band
October 26, 2022. "White Noise". January 18, 2023. "Tattoo". May 3, 2023. "Chessboard". August 16, 2023. "Nichijō". September 20, 2023. "Soulsoup". December
Official_Hige_Dandism
1984 video game
selfmates and helpmates. Pondering on opponent's time and a three-dimensional chessboard were introduced in Colossus Chess 4.0. All releases were written in the
Colossus_Chess
Mythical character from India
invention of chaturanga, the Indian predecessor of chess, and the wheat and chessboard problem he would have presented to the king when he was asked what reward
Sissa_(mythical_brahmin)
Chess variant
variant invented by Ralph Betza around 1996. It is played on a 16×16 chessboard with 16 pieces (on the back rank) and 16 pawns (on the second rank) per
Chess_on_a_really_big_board
Data structure in chess programs for game state
a data structure in a chess program representing the position on the chessboard and associated game state. Board representation is fundamental to all
Board representation (computer chess)
Board_representation_(computer_chess)
Three-dimensional chess variant
Wayne Schmittberger in the 1980s. The gamespace comprises three 8×8 chessboards at different levels. Each side commands two full chess armies on levels
Parallel_worlds_chess
Sweet pudding dish from Indian subcontinent
and Tamil (பாயசம், pāyacam). A story from Kerala titled "The Legend of Chessboard" holds that an old sage, who was Krishna in disguise, challenged the king
Kheer
2019 video game
game features teams of automated Dota 2 heroes fighting battles on a chessboard. The mod had over eight million players by May 2019 and its popularity
Dota_Auto_Chess
French literary movement
often based on mathematical problems, such as the knight's tour of the chessboard and permutations. Oulipo was founded on November 24, 1960, as a subcommittee
Oulipo
Ref(s) 1962 God's Chessboard (French: L'Échiquier de Dieu) Marco Polo The project, titled L'Échiquier de Dieu (English: God's Chessboard), materialized in
List of Alain Delon performances
List_of_Alain_Delon_performances
Graphic depiction of a given position in a game of chess
readers to verify that they are looking at the correct position on their chessboard or computer. The symbols used generally resemble the pieces of the standard
Chess_diagram
1954 painting by Salvador Dalí
consistent with his earlier work, such as the levitating Christ and the giant chessboard below. Jesus' face is turned away from the viewer, making it completely
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
Crucifixion_(Corpus_Hypercubus)
Season of South Korean television series
people's lives for entertainment and treat them like game pieces on a chessboard, so I wanted to create a powerful and instinctive look for the room."
Squid_Game_season_1
Pattern of intersecting vertical and horizontal stripes
rows of the chessboard are named ranks and are attributed a whole number ranging from 1 to 8 where 1 is placed on white's side of the chessboard. On a board
Check_(pattern)
Football match
excitement, replaced by patience and cautious play, the final was dubbed "The Chessboard Final". Tottenham were the holders, having won the League and FA Cup Double
1962_FA_Cup_final
Stadtteil of Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
currency (Notgeld) during the First World War, it featured images of chessboards. An international chess tournament is annually held. Since the late 17th
Ströbeck
Variants of chess with multiple boards at different levels
two-dimensional board with a three-dimensional array of cells, usually stacked chessboards. There are numerous 3D chess board arrays depending on the design of
Three-dimensional_chess
Publication by Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Egyptian. In Kircher's reading, the Eye of Horus and a glyph depicting a chessboard (the syllable mn) are interpreted as "instrument of divine providence
Oedipus_Aegyptiacus
American mathematician (born 1966)
Elkies". 2018. McClain, Dylan Loeb (August 28, 2010). "Skilled at the Chessboard, Keyboard and Blackboard". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved
Noam_Elkies
Method of representing a chessboard in software
spread out to cover an 8-by-16 board, equal to the size of two adjacent chessboards. Each square of the 8-by-16 matrix is assigned a number as can be seen
0x88
Type of optical illusion
illusion), of orientation (Zöllner illusion, Münsterberg illusion or shifted-chessboard illusion and its café wall illusion variant), of rectilinearity or straightness
Geometrical-optical_illusions
Seal of the province of Cebu, The Philippines
the island province. Recently, the pattern has been changed into a more chessboard-like design just like in the current seal of Cebu City, and the symbolism
Seal_of_Cebu
2001 video game
designs by creator Kazuki Takahashi, the game's battle system is based on a chessboard-style battlefield, with over 800 cards from the franchise. Several new
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses
Yu-Gi-Oh!_The_Duelists_of_the_Roses
2015 killing in North Carolina, U.S.
is jailed: 'I was used by her – all I've ever been is a piece on her chessboard'". Irish Independent. Riegel, Ralph (9 November 2023). "Jason Corbett's
Killing_of_Jason_Corbett
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Boy/Male
Assamese, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Sanskrit, Telugu
Of Great Fortune; King; Lord
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
Victory of the People; Abbreviation of Nicholas
Biblical
same as Jimnahmay God defend;prosperity; he allots;
Boy/Male
Hebrew
Man.
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Hebrew, Irish
Of the Earth; Blend of Tara and Erin; From Ireland; Rocky Hill
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Brave Warrior; Brave; Royal Fighter
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
God; Godlike
Boy/Male
Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
The Lord is My Father; Gift of God; Yahweh is My Father
Boy/Male
Biblical
Exaltation of the Lord.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Acceptance. Good will. Name of the keeper of the Gates of Heaven.
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n.
A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
n.
A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board.
n.
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
n.
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.