Checkerboard

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  • noun. A board on which chess and checkers are played, divided into 64 squares of two alternating colors.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A board divided into sixty-four small squares, thirty-two of one color and thirty-two of another, and arranged so that no two of the same color are side by side, on which checkers and chess are played. Also called draught-board, chess-board.
  • noun. In American foot-ball, a term sometimes applied to the field of play. See gridiron.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers, chess, or draughts.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A pattern of squares of alternating colours.
  • noun. A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
  • noun. a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
    • Word Usage
    ""We know that the flashing checkerboard is a very salient stimulus for just the visual processing areas of the brain," she says."
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    board  gameboard  
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    chessboard  
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