Editing Checkerboard (section)

{{Short description|Board with an alternating square pattern on which games are played}}
[[File:Chess.board.fabric.png|thumb|A checkerboard]]
A '''checkerboard''' ([[American English]]) or '''chequerboard''' ([[British English]]) is a [[game board]] of [[check (pattern)|checkered]] pattern on which [[checkers]] (also known as [[English draughts]]) is played.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Checkerboard.html|title=Checkerboard|first=Eric W.|last=Weisstein|website=mathworld.wolfram.com}}</ref> Most commonly, it consists of 64 squares (8×8) of alternating dark and light color, typically green and [[Buff (colour)|buff]] (official tournaments), black and red (consumer commercial), or black and white (printed diagrams). An 8×8 checkerboard is used to play many other games, including [[chess]], whereby it is known as a [[chessboard]]. Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards. In The Netherlands, however, a ''dambord'' (checker board) has 10 rows and 10 columns for 100 squares in total (see article International draughts).