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Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
1. checked pattern; chequered pattern; checks; checkers; chequers
Wikipedia definition
2. CheckerboardA checkerboard or chequerboard is a board of chequered pattern on which English draughts (checkers) is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red and black. The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematical abstraction of such a board.
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