chessboard

English

Alternative forms

• chess board

Etymology

From chess +‎ board.

Pronunciation

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Noun

chessboard (plural chessboards)

1. (chess) A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
   • 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE‎^[1], page 4:

     If a piece moves to a square occupied by an opponent’s piece the latter is captured and removed from the chessboard as part of the same move.

2. (topology) A mathematical construction based on this pattern of squares.

Derived terms

• chessboard distance
• chessboardlike
• Croatian chessboard
• rice and chessboard problem
• wheat and chessboard problem

Translations

square board used in the game of chess

• Afrikaans: skaakbord
• Arabic: رَقْعَة اَلشَّطْرَنْج f (raqʕat aš-šaṭranj)
• Bashkir: шахмат таҡтаһы (şaxmat taqtahı)
• Bulgarian: шахма́тна дъска́ f (šahmátna dăská)
• Catalan: àbac (ca) m, escaquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 棋盤 / 棋盘 (kei⁴ pun^4-2)

  Mandarin: 棋盤 / 棋盘 (zh) (qípán)

• Czech: šachovnice (cs) f
• Danish: skakbræt (da) n
• Dutch: schaakbord (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝaktabulo
• Faroese: talvborð n
• Finnish: shakkilauta (fi), šakkilauta (fi)
• French: échiquier (fr) m

  Old French: escheker m

• German: Schachbrett (de) n
• Greek: σκακιέρα (el) f (skakiéra)
• Hebrew: לוח־שחמט m (luakh-shakhmat')
• Hindi: बिसात (hi) m (bisāt)
• Hungarian: sakktábla (hu)
• Irish: ficheall (ga) f, clár fichille m
• Italian: scacchiera (it) f
• Japanese: チェスボード (ja) (chesubōdo)
• Korean: 체스판 (cheseupan)
• Latin: scaccarium n
• Macedonian: шаховска табла f (šahovska tabla)
• Malay: papan catur
• Maltese: skakkiera f
• Mongolian: шатрын хөлөг (šatryn xölög)
• Nogai: шатыраш тактасы (şatıraş taktası)
• Norman: êchitchi m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sjakkbrett n

  Nynorsk: sjakkbrett n

• Plautdietsch: Schachbrat n
• Polish: szachownica (pl) f
• Portuguese: tabuleiro de xadrez m
• Romanian: tablă de șah f, eșichier (ro) n
• Russian: ша́хматная доска́ (ru) f (šáxmatnaja doská)
• Sanskrit: चतुरङ्गफलक n (caturaṅgaphalaka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шаховска табла f, шаховница f

  Latin: šahovska tabla f, šahovnica (sh) f

• Slovak: šachovnica f
• Slovene: šahovnica (sl) f
• Spanish: tablero de ajedrez m
• Swedish: schackbräde (sv)
• Tagalog: ahedresan
• Thai: กระดานหมากรุก (grà-daan-màak-rúk)
• Turkish: satranç tahtası (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: سطرنج تخته‌سی (satranc tahtası)

• Ukrainian: шахівниця f (šaxivnycja)
• Vietnamese: bàn cờ (vi)
• Volapük: cögaboed
• Yiddish: שאָכברעט f (shokhbret)

See also

• checkerboard
• chequerboard
• chess
• draughtboard
• draughtsboard
• gameboard