chessboard

noun

chess·​board ˈches-ˌbȯrd How to pronounce chessboard (audio)
: a checkerboard used in the game of chess

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Most of the pilot is spent setting up the chessboard and introducing the key players. Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025 In between is a huge chessboard for honing skills of strategy and guile while catching a tan. Mark David, Robb Report, 4 Sep. 2025 But how much of your personality—a mercurial phenomenon—is deterministic, a set of probabilities that are no more inscrutable to algorithms than the arrangement of pieces on a chessboard? Webb Wright, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025 And the evening might have said as much, scaling down some of the more grandiose aspects of her Coachella performance — the medieval facade in the backdrop, the chessboard in the middle of the audience — to fit into a smaller setting. Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 17 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for chessboard

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of chessboard was in the 15th century

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“Chessboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chessboard. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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