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    A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in...
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    wheat and chessboard problem (sometimes expressed in terms of rice grains) is a mathematical problem expressed in textual form as: If a chessboard were to...
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  • A chessboard complex is a particular kind of abstract simplicial complex, which has various applications in topological graph theory and algebraic topology...
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  • The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997) is one of the major works of Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski graduated with...
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  • Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (Битцевский...
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    The chessboard paradox or paradox of Loyd and Schlömilch is a falsidical paradox based on an optical illusion. A chessboard or a square with a side length...
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  • 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...
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    The mutilated chessboard problem is a tiling puzzle posed by Max Black in 1946 that asks: Suppose a standard 8×8 chessboard (or checkerboard) has two...
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  • queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires that...
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  • The Steinhaus chessboard theorem is the following theorem, due to Hugo Steinhaus: Consider a chessboard on which some cells contain landmines. Then, either...
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  • Chessboards arise frequently in computer vision theory and practice because their highly structured geometry is well-suited for algorithmic detection...
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    so winters of discontent" (Washington Post). Talbot's book The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government is...
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    The Feynman checkerboard, or relativistic chessboard model, was Richard Feynman’s sum-over-paths formulation of the kernel for a free spin-½ particle moving...
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    A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. If the knight ends on a square...
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  • column of troops one in front of the other File (chess), a column of the chessboard Filé powder, a culinary ingredient used in Cajun and Creole cooking Filé...
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  • Zeno's paradoxes Monty Hall problem Bedlam cube Conway puzzle Mutilated chessboard problem Packing problem Pentominoes tiling Slothouber–Graatsma puzzle...
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    used to play many other games, including chess, whereby it is known as a chessboard. Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards...
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  • War, writing books on the subject in the 1990s—Diplomacy and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives. The Anglo-American...
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    Starksia sluiteri, the chessboard blenny, is a species of labrisomid blenny native to the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean along the coast of Brazil...
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  • legal moves of the chess piece the bishop on a chessboard. Each vertex represents a square on the chessboard and each edge represents a legal move of the...
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    A chess piece, or chessman, is a game piece that is placed on a chessboard to play the game of chess. It can be either white or black, and it can be one...
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    Sissa Ben Dahir presented an Indian King Sharim with a beautiful handmade chessboard. The king asked what he would like in return for his gift and the courtier...
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  • of one of the Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain: a magical chessboard / gwyddbwyll board. If the pieces were set, they would play by themselves...
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    moves of the knight chess piece on a chessboard. Each vertex of this graph represents a square of the chessboard, and each edge connects two squares that...
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    The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR, or Byelorussian SSR; Belarusian: Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Russian: Белорусская...
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    July 2014. Petrov, Angel (6 October 2014). "Bulgaria's Grand Parliament Chessboard Might Be Both Ailment and Cure". Novinite. Archived from the original...
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  • known as castling by hand. attack An aggressive action on a part of the chessboard, or to threaten the capture of a piece or pawn. See also counterattack...
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    of Romania in Europe, its relations with Moldova and the continental chessboard with Russia". blue-europe.eu. Blue Europe - The European Think Hub. Retrieved...
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  • simultaneously a rook standing on a chessboard. There are other chess pieces in the water and the water becomes a chessboard. The chessboard leads to a checkered wall...
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    Chess symbols are part of Unicode. Instead of using images, one can represent chess pieces by characters that are defined in the Unicode character set...
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