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Chessboard

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

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Checkerboard 76% connected

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

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Alternate adjective · 78% connection

Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of th…

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Araucaria noun · 78% connection

A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species are confined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ fro…

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Bishop noun · 78% connection

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

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Board noun · 78% connection

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…

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Bushhammer noun · 78% connection

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into…

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Carpus noun · 78% connection

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short b…

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Castle noun · 78% connection

A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.

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Cat noun · 78% connection

An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to th…

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Cheat noun · 78% connection

A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess.

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Check noun · 78% connection

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having…

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Checker noun · 78% connection

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

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Checkered adjective · 78% connection

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material.

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Checkers verb · 78% connection

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…

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Checkmate noun · 78% connection

The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.

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Checkwork noun · 78% connection

Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.

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Chessman noun · 78% connection

A piece used in the game of chess.

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Compone adjective · 78% connection

Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines,…

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Ctenophora n. pl. · 78% connection

A class of Coelenterata, commonly ellipsoidal in shape, swimming by means of eight longitudinal rows of paddles. The separate paddles…

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