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Example sentences for: chessboard

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Of the 13th-century capital, Marco Polo wrote that “the whole interior of the city is laid out in squares like a chessboard with such masterly precision that no description can do justice to it” — a pattern Beijing retains to this day.
He resurrected Ustasha symbols, including the chessboard flag and kuna currency.
Turki al-Hamad, another commentator in the same paper, said that the Amman incident confounded those who believed that Saudi Arabia was just another pawn on Washington's chessboard and therefore had probably already established secret links with Israel.
Our viewpoint is often myopic, with our noses pressed against the back row of the chessboard.
Laid out like a chessboard (nearly half the size of China’s similarly designed capital, Chang’an), Nara had its imperial palace at the northern end, with court residences, Buddhist monasteries, and Shinto shrines stretching to the south.