chessboard

[ ches-bawrd, -bohrd ]

/ ˈtʃɛsˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /

the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.

Origin of chessboard

1400–50; late Middle English. See chess¹, board

Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.

The Stars Predict Your Week |Starsky + Cox |August 13, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The blocks were two inches square and there were eight each way; in fact, it was a copy of the chessboard her father had made.

Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic |Olive Thorne Miller
“The chessboard is not in the place where thou didst find it; go back, therefore, and slay him,” answered she.

The Mabinogion |Lady Charlotte Guest
Europe was a chessboard and with the hand of a skilled master he moved kings, queens, knights, and bishops.

The Rise of the Mediaeval Church |Alexander Clarence Flick

Colonel Murphy and the major had not even been forced to forego the pleasures of the chessboard.

Off on a Comet |Jules Verne
And Naisi asked for the king's chessboard and chessmen; which were brought: and he and Deirdre began to play.

A Reading Book in Irish History |P. W. Joyce

chessboard

/ (ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd) /

a square board divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours, used for playing chess or draughts