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How to use chessboard in a sentence

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The chessboard and its pieces come in an array of styles and materials, from plastic and vinyl to marble and oak.
English grandmaster Jon Speelman brings his highly original games and concepts to your chessboard in this excellent book.
Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades.
She may freely use emoticons in e-mail correspondence, but on the chessboard she is nothing short of macho.
The chessboard was still sitting there from last night, the game left unfinished.
The women gather around the table on which the chessboard has been set up as two maids enter from the left with refreshments and a tea tray.
The rows are set so that anyone traversing them will have a much smoother run moving in straight lines, like a castle on a chessboard.
Outlined in the halo of street lamps, the guardsmen resembled pieces on a chessboard, or actors in a tableau vivant of war.
And he is consistently jiggling the chessboard slightly, so that the pieces are vibrating around.
He's no doubt sitting in a room somewhere, still with his pocket chessboard, going through chess games.
He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff.
He sat in the dark living room, doing nothing but staring at the chessboard on the coffee table.
Inside it was a large chessboard with multiple chess figures shaped like humans.
Of all the pieces on a chessboard, the Knight is the most feared among beginners.
His king offered him a reward, but instead of gold he asked for one grain of rice doubled for each successive square on a chessboard.
One can teach the strategy of chess while the other facilitates creating the chessboard and pieces.
Great players have their own way of injecting life into any situation on the chessboard.
Ally's favorite photograph of the night was one of a chessboard that was perfectly set up, save for two pawns that had fallen over.
Place the Queen on a chessboard and pass her over the entire sixty-four squares and back again to the point of beginning in fourteen moves.
Remember that even though your fantasy players seem like pawns on a chessboard, the game is played on the field.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.
March had come before the last move was played on the rugged chessboard, and Beja Khan and his men were safe in Truckee.
It was well known that he held a key position on the chessboard of politics.
He replaced the pieces on the chessboard, and looked for the explanation of failure, but in vain.
The national chessboard is very confused in the white house.
Of the divine frivolity of laughter he was only capable over a chessboard.
Perceval prays God to direct him to the Castle of the chessboard.
A chessboard was between them, and their attention was fixed on the game.
He paused and indicated the thinned-out ranks of pawns on the chessboard.
The Cuban bent his brows as if he were reflecting over a chessboard.
A SHOP worker who claimed he wanted a murder victim for every square on a chessboard was yesterday convicted of killing 48 people.
A chessboard has all the elements of one-point perspective, including size change, overlapping, and foreground, middle ground, and background.
Barker and Stonehouse has the Dante, a sixties-inspired design with a Parquetry inlay arranged like a chessboard, and colonia black metal legs.
The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.
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