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Martin Gardner featured puzzles based on checkerboards in his November 1962 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. A square checkerboard with an alternating pattern is used for games including: Amazons; Chapayev; Chess and some of its variants (see chessboard) Czech draughts; Draughts, also known as checkers; Fox games
Checkers [note 1] (American English), also known as draughts (/ d r ɑː f t s, d r æ f t s /; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve forward movements of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.
Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 (VMFA-312) is a United States Marine Corps F/A-18C Hornet squadron. Also known as the "Checkerboards", the squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).
Straddling Checkerboards Various different versions of checkerboards on Cipher Machines and Cryptology; SECOM, a VIC variant with extended checkerboard "The Rise Of Field Ciphers: straddling checkerboard ciphers" by Greg Goebel 2009
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
The hall of fame, which had been home to a statue of checkers-great Marion Tinsley, contained a checkers book library and museum, as well as the two largest checkerboards and was host to a number of State and International checker tournaments.
The twelve pentominoes. After an introductory chapter that enumerates the polyominoes up to the hexominoes (made from six squares), the next two chapters of the book concern the pentominoes (made from five squares), the rectangular shapes that can be formed from them, and the subsets of an chessboard into which the twelve pentominoes can be packed.
Some puzzles based on checkerboards: 1962 Dec: Some simple tricks and manipulations from the ancient lore of string play: 1963 Jan: The author pays his annual visit to Dr. Matrix, the numerologist: 1963 Feb: Curves of constant width, one of which makes it possible to drill square holes 1963 Mar