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• v  mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on
• v  variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns
• s  patterned with alternating squares of color

• Evenings in Russia are long how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and .
• At the Canadian Grand Prix in June, the Briton took his first chequered flag.
• Germany's Bernd Rosemeyer takes the chequered flag at Donnington Park in England, 1937, with an average speed of 82.

• check
• checker
• chequer
• checked
• checkered

News & Articles

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• Hamilton finds a third way in Canada
  By Julian Linden MONTREAL (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton achieved a Formula One career first by steering his Mercedes to third place in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix, even if the podium was a bitter-sweet one for the Briton. In his five previous visits to Montreal with McLaren, the 2008 champion had won three times and crashed twice. On Sunday, Hamilton found a third way - taking the chequered flag ...
  June 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Vettel wins in Canada to end American jinx
  By Julian Linden MONTREAL (Reuters) - Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday to capture his first Formula One victory on North American soil and extend his overall lead to 36 points. The 25-year-old German cruised to his 29th career win without resistance, taking the chequered flag 14.4 seconds clear of Spain's Fernando Alonso, driving a Ferrari ...
  June 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Motor racing-Vettel wins in Canada to end American jinx
  By Julian Linden MONTREAL, June 9 (Reuters) - Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday to capture his first Formula One victory on North American soil and extend his overall lead to 36 points. The 25-year-old German cruised to his 29th career win without resistance, taking the chequered flag 14.4 seconds clear of Spain's Fernando Alonso, driving a ...
  June 9, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Sebastian Vettel in Sydney Morning Herald
  We're working hard to get on top of the reliability issues and we hope to have a solid race and see the chequered flag in Malaysia,Vettel said.
• Nick Mallett in The Canberra Times
  I had a look through Wikipedia, and he's obviously had a very chequered past,Mallett told the Herald . "He seemed to have been in a lot of trouble in rugby league, and his disciplinary record didn't look good at all. That didn't inspire...
• Fernando Alonso in pitpass.com
  The race was ruined by the safety car and everything that followed on from that,he said. "I was in third place, a metre behind Hamilton at the moment the safety car came out on track and, at the chequered flag, he was second and I was...