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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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Chessboards arise frequently in computer vision theory and practice because their highly structured geometry is well-suited for algorithmic detection
Chessboard_detection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
"twice-colourbound"—able to reach only a quarter of the squares on the 8×8 chessboard. Combining it with other pieces usually masks this weakness to some extent
Dabbaba_(chess)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 metric geometry
Comparison of Chebyshev, Euclidean and taxicab distances for the hypotenuse of a 3-4-5 triangle on a chessboard
Taxicab_geometry
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
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
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
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
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
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
Family of polymers
This silicone rubber folding chessboard resists creasing and wrinkling.
Silicone
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
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
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
gules and argent). It is also informally known in Croatian as šahovnica ("chessboard", from šah, "chess"). The five smaller shields represent five different
Coat_of_arms_of_Croatia
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Mountain in Vietnam
of Da Nang, becoming an attractive tourist site of the city. Ban Co (Chessboard in English) peak is the highest mountain in Son Tra peninsula, standing
Sơn_Trà_Mountain
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
Two-dimensional packing problem
A mutilated chessboard, an optimal packing for n2 − 2 squares
Square_packing
Partition into subsets from a given family
cover problem, as the constraints corresponding to the diagonals of the chessboard have a maximum rather than an exact queen count. Due to its NP-completeness
Exact_cover
Problem-solving technique and algorithmic paradigm
would examine all possible arrangements of 8 pieces on the 64-square chessboard and for each arrangement, check whether each (queen) piece can attack
Brute-force_search
Board and pieces for playing the game of chess
A chess set consists of a chessboard and (nominally) 'white' and 'black' chess pieces for playing chess. There are sixteen pieces of each color: one king
Chess_set
Natural number
A chessboard has 64 squares.
64_(number)
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
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
number, they can be placed partly over each other. There is no re-deal. Chessboard is a variation of Fortress. It is played like Fortress except that in
Fortress_(card_game)
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
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
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
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
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
Data structure in computer board games
properties like all spaces attacked by each piece type for every position on a chessboard can be pre-collated and stored in a table, so that answering a question
Bitboard
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)
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
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
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
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
Type of crystal structure
Crystal structure of a double perovskite: Sr2FeMoO6. The Fe and Mo atoms have ordered in a 3D chessboard type fashion.
Perovskite_(structure)
2022 video game
creation process, they first completed the modeling for the cloud and used "chessboard update" technology to reduce rendering calculations by half. To improve
Arena_Breakout
Graphs formed by a hypercube's edges and vertices
also the knight's graph for a toroidal 4 × 4 {\displaystyle 4\times 4} chessboard. Every hypercube graph is bipartite: it can be colored with only two colors
Hypercube_graph
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
Geometric shape formed from two squares
this "arctic circle", and the mutilated chessboard problem, in which removing two opposite corners from a chessboard makes it impossible to tile with dominoes
Domino_(mathematics)
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
Recurringly observed geometric pattern
[emphasis original] (a) grating, lattice, fretwork, filigree, honeycomb, or chessboard; (b) cobweb; (c) tunnel, funnel, alley, cone or vessel; (d) spiral. Many
Form_constant
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
Geometric shape formed from three squares
smaller L-trominos is called the chair tiling. Motivated by the mutilated chessboard problem, Solomon W. Golomb used this tiling as the basis for what has
Tromino
Combined landmasses of Europe and Asia
the world's known energy resources. — Zbigniew Brzezinski, The grand chessboard : American primacy and its geostrategic imperatives The Russian "Eurasianism"
Eurasia
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
Branch of the mathematical field of graph theory
bipartite graph is called a chessboard complex, as it can be also described as the complex of sets of nonattacking rooks on a chessboard. John Hopcroft and Robert
Topological_graph_theory
Federal prison in Russia
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) "Notorious 'chessboard killer' reveals murdering his 49 victims was 'like sex'". Daily Mirror
Polar_Owl
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
the Chessboard, Steve Jackson Games, Incorporated, ISBN 1-55634-332-9 Jackson, Steve (February 1997), Knightmare Chess: More Chaos on the Chessboard, Steve
List_of_chess_variants
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
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
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
Pakistani politician
2002. Retrieved 5 December 2017. "PESHAWAR: Women players at political chessboard". DAWN.COM. 7 October 2002. Retrieved 5 December 2017. "2008 election
Shahzadi_Umerzadi_Tiwana
American chess player, composer, puzzle author and mathematician (1841-1911)
points to B, only 12 boys appear. A square with a side length of 8 units ("chessboard") is dissected into four pieces, which can be assembled into a 5x13 rectangle
Sam_Loyd
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)
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
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Female
Finnish
Short form of Finnish Anniina, NIINA means "favor; grace."
Girl/Female
Muslim
Pure, Beautiful
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Trustworthy reliable
Girl/Female
Muslim
Blossom. Flower.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Earth, Base
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Allen, established in New England in the 17th century.Matthew Allyn was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Friend of God
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Jolly.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from the name of the city of Lincoln, which was originally called Lindum colonia, LINCOLN means "lake colony."Â
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n.
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
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.
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.