0 a square board divided into 64 smaller squares, half of which are light and half dark in colour, used for playing the game of chess or draughts --
It is like trying to use one and the same piece on the international chessboard in two incompatible combinations.
Does he also agree that it occupies one of the most important squares on the strategic chessboard?
The professional pessimist, if he takes the chessboard of the world, can find a good deal of material for the making of a black picture.
We all know that "co-ordination" frequently means moving pieces around the chessboard, rather than action.
Are miners and their families to be shunted around the country like pieces on a chessboard, and are mining villages to be abandoned?
Why did they not get hold of some of the pieces on the chessboard and move them into more useful positions?
They gave us the surprise of our lives over the chessboard.
It is making human beings absolute cynical toys and playthings in the political moves on a chessboard.
