Oh i am not wasting time on this lol.
How many squares on a chessboard?
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Thank you owltuna :)
How many squares on this board
owltuna wrote:
For what it is worth, I sent Iteh a trophy to make up for his being slighted by the silly person who gave the trophy to the wrong replier, and then ran away from the topic when he was proven wrong.
who're you calling silly
and i didnt run away from the topic
ThrillerFan got the trophy because he got it right. End of argument.
Exactly.
almost all of the chessboards on google images have a square border.
on the first page of images the ones without a square border do not have all the squares on the board even if you dont include a border. ill post the first ones
It's just silly to count the border as a square.
Portishead93 wrote:
It's just silly to count the border as a square.
why did you have to bump this topic?
It depends what you mean by sqaure. Clearly the answer is 64. This is so well-known a chessboard is often defined by this number, ie: "
| chessboard (ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd) | |
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a square board divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours, used for playing chess or draughts That one is from the Collin's Dictionary. As people have said here there are more "sqaures" within the board if you're not talking about the actual squares in chess (which is how people talk about squares in chess and this is a chess forum)... And, ok, when you step "in" or "out of the square" with your King in certain endgames sometimes these squares are talked about in chess, and technically they're on the board, but in that case no one has yet mentioned the squares Bishops and Knights can move in which are also "on the board." B1-a2-b2-c2, for example is a square for a the Bishop, King, or Queen move and there are quite a few more of those. C8-a7-b5-d6 is a square on the board that might be a dead end if you were trying to do the knight's tour. |
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owltuna wrote:
Wrong and wrong. "End of argument" means "I have no argument." You were proven wrong about the border trick, even your brother knows it. You didn't address any of the proofs against your trick question, that's running away.
NO, end of argument because you were just coming up with the same point that had already been refuted.
What I mean is that my Space chessboard have space on the back for checkers. That means the square possibilities are just like mathematics A, chance calculations, so u can make al numbers until 8 an square ( relative 16 is a square of 4 cos its not rounded by significant numbers ) just explain that cos square is an funny pun ;), after doing that u make all numbers until 10 an square. Then u Add up the 2 results cos its + and not x because its OR cos there are 2 different ways ( in this case 2 boardsides ). Blablabla after doing that u get 591 squares cos there are 2 boardside squares. Thats what I mean an few posts back. Ofcourse this is not the correct answer cos the answer was already given but this is the answer of an multiple board. To your question( of Definitelynotgm ): Im not from Tyropius in the next solar system but I usually living on Earth. Hope this is good explained ;)
Every pixel is a square. Do we count them too? 
RottenRichie wrote:
How many squares does it take to answer this question?
Too many. lol :)
tmkroll wrote:
It depends what you mean by sqaure. Clearly the answer is 64. This is so well-known a chessboard is often defined by this number, ie: "
chessboard (ˈtʃɛsˌbɔːd) — na square board divided into 64 squares of two alternating colours, used for playing chess or draughts
That one is from the Collin's Dictionary. As people have said here there are more "sqaures" within the board if you're not talking about the actual squares in chess (which is how people talk about squares in chess and this is a chess forum)... And, ok, when you step "in" or "out of the square" with your King in certain endgames sometimes these squares are talked about in chess, and technically they're on the board, but in that case no one has yet mentioned the squares Bishops and Knights can move in which are also "on the board." B1-a2-b2-c2, for example is a square for a the Bishop, King, or Queen move and there are quite a few more of those. C8-a7-b5-d6 is a square on the board that might be a dead end if you were trying to do the knight's tour.
Notice from the definition you already have 65 at that point... and then the trouble begins 
There are 64 sqaures for that definition. A "sqaure board" is not necessarily the same as a "sqaure." In that definition squares are locations on a board, 64 of them, as it says. You can move pawn to c3 with or without a physical board which may or may not be square-shaped. You can't move pawn to "whole board." That's not a square. Of course it's shape is square and again it comes down to what you mean by that word, but again I don't see a contraction in that definition. It's fairly clearly that board is not one of the squares.
Almost to the point of spamming here, but this one is too pretty not to post:
That board has a border. And there's some more squares (the diamonds) on the border.
So... that's 257 squares.