chess board

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Noun1.chess board - a checkerboard used to play chesschess board - a checkerboard used to play chess  
chessboard
checker board, checkerboard - a board having 64 squares of two alternating colors
chess set - checkerboard and a set of 32 pieces used to play chess
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"Naisi and Deirdre were seated together one day, and between them Conor's chess board, they playing upon it.
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APROFESSOR'S "magnificent obsession" will see a war of almost 500 years ago fought out again on the chess board.
Professor's move set to make history
He has been coming to the Piazza chess board for 10 years.
A knight out in Huddersfield
I think it's quite an accomplishment because I don't even know how to set a chess board up." Daniel has no idea where his daughter gets her talent from but thinks she is a little brain box.
Check out our little champ... She's only 7!
His diary contained a sketch of a chess board, with the squares filled with the date and time of each killing, plus details of the victims.
61 VICTIMS OF THE CRAZY CHESS KILLER
CHESS BOARD looked a horse to follow when initiating a first treble for Tom O'Brien and gaining a first success for Philip Hobbs in the juvenile hurdle.
Horse Racing: Chess Board heads O'Brien treble; FONTWELL
But during the vital match, Freddie believes the Russians are tampering with the game and throws the chess board.
REVIEW
THE folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a chess-playing priest.
Family Life: Making the right move into chess; A GAME of chess could be just the thing to give kids' brains a boost. MARIE TURBILL checks out why
Poaching has always gone on, but the proliferation of agents, keen to move players around like pawns on a chess board for personal gain, and the demand of newspapers for transfer gossip, has had the effect of unsettling footballers and causing friction between clubs more than ever.
Player poaching just sickening
We want to get a giant chess board in the yard and things like that."
PUPILS HAVE AN EYE ON A NEW PLAYGROUND
Supermarket worker Alexander Pichushkin, 33, had wanted to notch up a murder for each of the 64 squares on a chess board.
Guilty of 48 killings
FALLING through a chess board, being eaten by a giant cockroach and being nanny to Jordan's children are some of the nightmares Britons experience, a poll out today shows.
The scary dreams that haunt us
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