A chessboard may be constructed by first sticking alternate planks of light and dark wood together (at 1/12 scale the squares on the chessboard should be approximately 3mm square, therefore, the planks of wood should be 3mm thick). Nine planks in all need to be sandwiched together. The resulting block of wood must be left to dry before being sliced into planks (the result will be light and dark coloured striped planks) 3mm thick. These planks need to be glued back together with each plank being offset from the next (one one way, the next the opposite way). This is why nine planks were glued in the first place. Again this must be left to dry. Once dry the block of wood may be trimme to form a square section. Edging may then be applied in layers around the outside. Again this should be left to dry before finally slicing the block into thin chessboards. It is important to choose woods with a tight grain to stop the dust from the dark wood impregnating the light wood and so spoiling the effect. See also: Tables.
chessboard is constituted by a square board compound of 64 squares, organized like it's indicated on the following diagram, representing the empty chessboard, in ranks, numbered from 1 to 8, each of them being composed of 8 squares. files, indexed from a to h, each of them being composed of 8 squares. DIAG 1 : Hence any square is defined with the help of a letter and a numeral. That way : the e2-square is the intersection between the e-file and the 2th rank ; in other words it's the only square situated simultaneously on the e-file and the 2th rank. In the same way the g5-square is the intersection between the g-file and the 5th rank. (Chess Terminology - Chess Rule). - Cinema
A chessboard is the board (checkerboard) used in the game of chess, which consists of eight rows and eight columns of squares arranged in two alternating colors (light and dark). Similar boards are also known as checkerboards. The colors are called "black" and "white" (or "light" and "dark"), although the actual colors are usually dark green and buff for boards used in competition, and often natural shades of light and dark woods for home boards.
