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chessboard

/ˈtʃesbɔːd/noun

उच्चारण चेस्बॉर्ड

शतरंज की बिसात

Basic word

noun
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    a square board with 64 black and white squares, on which chess is played

    शतरंज की बिसात

    • Radhika set up the pieces on the chessboard.
    • The chessboard has sixty-four squares.
    • He moved a knight across the chessboard.
    + 1 more example
    • A wooden chessboard stood on the table.
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5

chessboard (countable noun)

Chessboard is one word and countable; it names the board with sixty-four squares.

Chessboard एक शब्द है और countable है; यह चौंसठ खानों वाले बोर्ड का नाम है।

  • He placed the pieces on the chessboard.
  • There were two chessboards in the club.

on the chessboard

Use on the chessboard for the position of pieces or moves, and in figurative uses too.

मोहरों की स्थिति या चालों के लिए 'on the chessboard' आता है, और लाक्षणिक प्रयोग में भी।

  • The queen was in the centre of the chessboard.
  • Politics is like a chessboard, with moves and counter-moves.

chessboard + noun / chessboard pattern

As a modifier, chessboard describes a black-and-white pattern of squares.

Modifier के रूप में chessboard काले-सफेद चौकोरों के डिजाइन का वर्णन करता है।

  • The courtyard had a chessboard pattern in marble.

a chessboard has 64 squares

A chessboard has eight rows and eight columns, giving sixty-four squares of two alternating colours.

Chessboard में आठ पंक्तियाँ और आठ स्तंभ होते हैं, यानी दो रंगों के बारी-बारी चौंसठ खाने।

  • A chessboard has 32 white and 32 black squares.

chessboard squares are named by letters and numbers

Squares are named with letters a to h and numbers one to eight, so a move is written as e4 or Nf3.

खानों के नाम a से h अक्षरों और एक से आठ अंकों से रखे जाते हैं, इसलिए चाल e4 या Nf3 की तरह लिखी जाती है।

  • The pawn moved from e2 to e4 on the chessboard.
+Collocations 4

adjective + chessboard

woodenmagnetictravelmarblefolding

  • He carries a magnetic chessboard on the train.

verb + chessboard

set upclearcarrybuystudy

  • Radhika set up the chessboard before her friend arrived.

chessboard + noun

squarepiecepositionpatterntable

  • The chessboard table was a gift from her uncle.

figurative chessboard

political chessboardglobal chessboardeconomic chessboarddiplomatic chessboard

  • Each nation played its pieces on the global chessboard.
“More examples 7
  • The old man studied the chessboard for ten minutes before moving.

बुजुर्ग ने चाल चलने से पहले दस मिनट तक chessboard देखा।

  • She bought a wooden chessboard from the Saharanpur market.

उसने सहारनपुर के बाज़ार से लकड़ी का chessboard खरीदा।

  • The coach drew the chessboard on the whiteboard to explain the opening.

कोच ने शुरुआती चालें समझाने के लिए whiteboard पर chessboard बनाया।

  • The pieces were scattered across the chessboard.

मोहरे chessboard पर बिखरे हुए थे।

  • The kitchen floor looked like a chessboard.

रसोई का फर्श chessboard जैसा दिखता था।

  • The chessboard was set for a game that nobody finished.

chessboard एक ऐसे खेल के लिए सजा था जिसे किसी ने पूरा नहीं किया।

  • The lights of the city at night looked like a chessboard from the plane.

विमान से रात में शहर की रोशनियाँ chessboard जैसी दिखती थीं।