CHECKERBOARD

A 'checkerboard' (or 'chequerboard') is a board on which American checkers is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red and black.
The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematical abstraction of such a board. The adjective ''checkered'' may refer to a pattern resembling a checkerboard, as in the checkered flag used to welcome the winning cars in a Formula One race, for instance, or the livery on some emergency service vehicles.
An 8×8 board is also used for some other board games, although not necessarily a board with an alternating pattern:

★ Chess

★ Makruk

★ Arimaa

★ Amazons

★ Mak-yek

★ Breakthrough

★ Crossings

★ Gounki

★ Lines of Action

★ Martian Chess

★ Reversi

★ Chapayev

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★ Chessboard

★ Square tiling

★ Checkerboarding

★ Battenburg