Definition of chessboard
: a checkerboard used in the game of chess
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For years, the regime had operated on both sides of the terror chessboard, simultaneously fighting and facilitating the murderous designs of extremists.
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Now the West faces tough-minded opposition from people who consider massacres in Syria and attempted murders in Salisbury as merely moves on a chessboard.
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His coastal/central San Diego 52nd district seemed destined to be on the national political chessboard every election.
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Outside Afrin, the Syrian chessboard is no less crowded.
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Like moves on a chessboard, marriages between members of Europe’s dynasties were, for centuries, made to establish an advantage in the continent’s balance of power.
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If the field was a chessboard, Smith would be Zimmer’s queen.
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Arranged like a chessboard, each tile is roughly a square foot and contains a tiny dish of water, a stick, some food pellets and a little white mouse with red eyes sitting on black sand.
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Trump’s personnel and process failures contribute to policy failures across the national security chessboard.
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First Known Use of chessboard
15th century
CHESSBOARD Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of chessboard for English Language Learners
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: a board used in chess that has 64 squares in two colors
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