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- noun Plural form of
chessboard .
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Examples
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Because negotiation with the Chinese is almost never a "grand bargain" of the type Kane proposes, but rather a subtle and ever-shifting adjustment of pieces on twenty different chessboards.
David Millar: Why You Should Care About Taiwan David Millar 2011
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By sheer visualization under my eyelids, I constructed chessboards and played both sides of long games through to checkmate.
Chapter 5 2010
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In July, the Taliban banned the use of the Internet, playing cards, computer discs, movies, satellite TV, musical instruments, and chessboards after declaring them against Islamic law.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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In July, the Taliban banned the use of the Internet, playing cards, computer discs, movies, satellite TV, musical instruments, and chessboards after declaring them against Islamic law.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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In July, the Taliban banned the use of the Internet, playing cards, computer discs, movies, satellite TV, musical instruments, and chessboards after declaring them against Islamic law.
A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009
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The researchers invited a chess master and a weaker player to visit their psychology laboratory at Carnegie Mellon.9 When the players arrived, they asked them to sit at a table where two chessboards were placed in front of them in plain view.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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She also saw several chessboards, their pieces frozen in the middle of various games.
The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010
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The researchers invited a chess master and a weaker player to visit their psychology laboratory at Carnegie Mellon.9 When the players arrived, they asked them to sit at a table where two chessboards were placed in front of them in plain view.
Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010
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At the end of the B and Q lines, less than an hour from Manhattan, there is a bustling boardwalk where the salwar kameez brushes against the babushka, and the joggers, strollers and roller blades deftly whiz by elderly men hovering around chessboards.
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She also saw several chessboards, their pieces frozen in the middle of various games.
The Lost Children Carolyn Cohagan 2010
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