Checkerboard
A checkerboard or chequerboard is a game board of checkered pattern on which checkers is played. Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares of alternating dark and light color, typically green and buff, black and red, or black and white. An 8×8 checkerboard is 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. In The Netherlands, however, a dambord has 10 rows and 10 columns for 100 squares in total.
Games and puzzles using checkerboards
featured puzzles based on checkerboards in his November 1962 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. A square checkerboard with an alternating pattern is used for games including:- Amazons
- Chapayev
- Chess and some of its variants
- Czech draughts
- Draughts, also known as checkers
- Fox games
- Frisian draughts
- Gounki
- International draughts
- Italian draughts
- Lines of Action
- Pool checkers
- Russian checkers
Mathematical description
Given a grid with rows and columns, a function,or, alternatively,
The element is black and represents the lower left corner of the board.