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In the lobby of Keene’s Crossing Elementary in Orange, there are tables with chessboard surfaces and game pieces.
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A chessboard sits on a card table at the far end of the Baltimore Orioles’ clubhouse, near most of the pitchers’ lockers.
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Bezzel asked how many different ways eight queens could be arranged in such a way that no two queens could attack each other, given a traditional 8-by-8 chessboard grid.
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First Known Use of chessboard
15th century
CHESSBOARD Defined for English Language Learners
chessboard
playDefinition 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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