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thumb|upright=1.35|A wooden chessboard with Staunton chess set|Staunton pieces A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colors of squares, one light and one dark, in a checkered pattern. During play, the board is oriented such that each player's near-right corner square is a light square.
A chessboard is a square game board consisting of 64 squares arranged in 8 rows and 8 columns in a checkered pattern of alternating light and dark colors, used to play the game of chess. It matters because it provides the essential playing surface where chess pieces are positioned and moved according to the rules of the game.
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thumb|upright=1.35|A wooden chessboard with Staunton chess set|Staunton pieces A chessboard is a game board used to play chess. It consists of 64 squares, 8 rows by 8 columns, on which the chess pieces are placed. It is square in shape and uses two colors of squares, one light and one dark, in a checkered pattern. During play, the board is oriented such that each player's near-right corner square is a light square.
The columns of a chessboard are known as ', the rows are known as ', and the lines of adjoining same-colored squares (each running from one edge of the board to an adjacent edge) are known as ''''. Each square of the board is named using algebraic, descriptive, or numeric chess notation; algebraic notation is the FIDE standard. In algebraic notation, using White's perspective, files are labeled a through h from left to right, and ranks are labeled 1 through 8 from bottom to top; each square is identified by the file and rank that it occupies. The a- through d-files constitute the , and the e- through h-files constitute the ; the 1st through 4th ranks constitute White's side, and the 5th through 8th ranks constitute Black's side.