Dennis the Menace's famous ' red and black ' jersey had formed the colours of a few of the Beano characters ' clothes ( Minnie the Minx has the same, although the placement of the stripes is a bit different ; Ball Boy's was a vertical red and black ; Roger the Dodger has a chessboard design top, and Danny ( from the Bash Street Kids ) has a similar cap ), but they have changed for Minnie and Ball Boy ( Minnie at one point had a red and yellow top and Ball Boy's strip is now black and blue ).

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid.

The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8 × 8 chessboard so that no two queens attack each other.

The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n-queens problem of placing n queens on an n × n chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of 2 and 3.

She is a tiger at the chessboard.

The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank / row in a chess match.

Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.

Whereas the first book has the deck of cards as a theme, this book is based on a game of chess, played on a giant chessboard with fields for squares.

The looking-glass world is divided into sections by brooks or streams, with the crossing of each brook usually signifying a notable change in the scene and action of the story: the brooks represent the divisions between squares on the chessboard, and Alice's crossing of them signifies advancing of her piece one square.

The knight's tour is a mathematical problem involving a knight on a chessboard.

Baroque chess is usually played on a standard 8 × 8 chessboard with the standard Staunton design of chess pieces.

A chessboard is the type of checkerboard used in the board game chess, and consists of 64 squares ( eight rows and eight columns ) arranged in two alternating colors ( light and dark ).

Each square of the chessboard is identified by a unique coordinate pair consisting of a letter and a number.

Chess is a game played by two people on a chessboard, with sixteen pieces ( of six different types ) for each player.

The King is but a piece over the political scene ( in French literally translated: on the chessboard ), but a piece which matters.

It has been mathematically proven that generalized chess ( chess played with an arbitrarily large number of pieces on an arbitrarily large chessboard ) is EXPTIME-complete, meaning that determining the winning side in an arbitrary position of generalized chess provably takes exponential time in the worst case ; however, this theoretical result gives no lower bound on the amount of work required to solve ordinary 8x8 chess.

The former provided for the creation of small graphics that could be sent with a low transmission cost, which is useful in certain roles where the graphics can be arranged in a grid, like a chessboard.

For example, in the eight queens problem the challenge is to place eight queens on a standard chessboard so that no queen attacks any other.

While the board is similar to a chessboard, and the various pieces are similarly designed to have various offsetting abilities, when one piece attempts to take another, the removal of the targeted piece is not automatic.

A " Chess for Dummies " was made, a black-and-yellow chessboard with a picture of a piece, along with a summary of how the piece moves, printed its starting positions, although there is a book with the same name.

It is in contrast to over-the-board ( OTB ) chess, where the players sit at a chessboard at the same time ( or perhaps play at the same time remotely ).

The classic textbook example of the use of backtracking is the eight queens puzzle, that asks for all arrangements of eight chess queens on a standard chessboard so that no queen attacks any other.

A puppet in Turkish attire and with a hookah in its mouth sat before a chessboard placed on a large table.

To make this description short, the resulting layout should resemble a chessboard ; the cards placed on one direction ( vertically or horizontally ) represent the darker squares and the cards placed on the other direction symbolize the lighter squares.

The 1959 film Donald in Mathmagic Land includes a segment with Donald Duck dressed as Alice meeting the Red Queen on a chessboard.

His object was to repeat the work already done by Heinrich von Sybel but from a less restricted point of view and with a clearer and calmer understanding of the chessboard of Europe.

He finished second in the Kiev Championship when he was only 15, and achieved the Soviet Master title at age 16 for his second-place result in the 1940 Ukrainian Chess Championship, behind Isaac Boleslavsky, with whom he became close friends both on and off the chessboard.

During the increasingly intense match, Freddie suddenly bursts out of the arena, leaving the chessboard on the floor (" Chess # 1 ") and Florence to pick up the pieces with Anatoly, Molokov, and The Arbiter, whereby she promises to bring Freddie and Anatoly together in order to diplomatically revive the tournament (" Quartet: A Model of Decorum and Tranquility ").

It is played with Icehouse pieces on a chessboard or checkerboard ; to play with a number of players other than two or four, a small, Non-Euclidean board is available which can be tiled to produce a board of the required size, allowing up to six players.

In chess, the distance between squares on the chessboard for rooks is measured in Manhattan distance ; kings and queens use Chebyshev distance, and bishops use the Manhattan distance ( between squares of the same color ) on the chessboard rotated 45 degrees, i. e., with its diagonals as coordinate axes.

Arimaa is played on a chessboard with four squares distinguished as trap squares: c3, f3, c6, and f6 in algebraic chess notation.

Mathers would set up the chessboard and seat himself behind the white pieces, with an empty chair opposite him.

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* late 10th century-Dark and light squares are introduced on a chessboard.

With the chessboard oriented correctly, the white queen starts on a white square and the black queen on a black square.

* c5, a square of the chessboard using algebraic chess notation

* G6, a square on a chessboard or a move of a pawn to that square in algebraic chess notation

The term mass intelligentsia describes the 20th Century expansion of tertiary education to a saturation never seen before in history, and the resulting increase in moneyed adults curious about subjects, scientific, philosophic and humanitarian, beyond their own square on the chessboard.

Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen ( 1734 – 1804 ) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once.

Placed on the top of the cabinet was a chessboard, which measured eighteen inches square.

The puzzle requires the player to move a knight around a chessboard, touching each square once along the way.

In this variant, all normal chess rules apply, except: " Whenever a piece moves from its square, then that particular square must at once completely disappear out of the chessboard!

Played on a regular chessboard, this variant is a simple race game: the first player to reach a square on the last rank with his king is the winner.

It is also known as chessboard distance, since in the game of chess the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another equals the Chebyshev distance between the centers of the squares, if the squares have side length one, as represented in 2-D spatial coordinates with axes aligned to the edges of the board.

The chessboard had indentations on each square to hold the bases of the chessmen to prevent them from moving.

For instance, if a pawn on a chessboard square is replaced by a rook from another square, the resulting position would be produced by XORing the existing hash with the bitstrings for:

The longest uncrossed ( or nonintersecting ) knight's path is a mathematical problem involving a knight on the standard 8 × 8 chessboard or, more generally, on a square n × n board.