chessboard
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- n a checkerboard used to play chess
- The chess-boxing combo traces its roots back to a 1992 comic book, titled The Nikopol Trilogy, in which the men of the future box on a chessboard floor.
- Hillary and Bill Clinton have ruled the chessboard of Democratic politics for so long that almost no move they make comes as a surprise.
- As Alexander Pichuzkin goes on trial, observers are waiting to find out if the self-confessed multiple killer who used a chessboard to lure his victims achieved his goal.