How Many Squares on a Chessboard?

but if most of the world are worse than a noob, i doesn't leave any room for a genius like you (secretly shaking head

I agree with everyone else who mentions that there are 204 squares altogether. It's just that there are 64 squares of size 1 x 1. Do not forget that there are 49 squares of size 2x2, 36 squares of size 3x3, 25 squares of size 4x4, 16 squares of size 5x5, 9 squares of size 6x6, 4 squares of size 7x7 and 1 lone square of size 8x8.

Now I wonder, how many rectangles are there in a standard 8x8 chessboard?

EDIT: I did not realise that the number of rectangles discussion was mentioned earlier in this post.

I have a new answer. You did not specifiy that it must be a standard 8x8 chessboard.

385, on a 10x10 chessboard.

It's called thinking out of the box (actually, inside the square box).

Has anyone said none yet? I'll be impressed if there's a single chess board in the world with a single perfect square on it.

now that, is the mastermind I'm looking for. Great thinking-even pixels on a computer aren't atomically perfect.

How do you even draw a perfect square??

Here is another trick question (I stress the word "trick" here):

There are two people named A and B. A is a smart guy (who knows there are 204 squares on a 8x8 chess board) and B is a kid is not very good at math and thinks there are 64 squares on a 8x8 board. One day, B was playing a game on his NxN board and A walks by when B (who doesn't know A) asks A how many squares are on his NxN board. A answers, "P squares." B laughs at A saying, "Are you serious? That's the number of squares on a MxM board!"

If N, M, and P >1 and are whole numbers, what is N, M, and P? (There is only one answer, and you need to explain why)

64. 8x 8 array

no, wait, I just disproved the Pythoagorean theorem. That can't be right. Dang it!

There are 0 squares on any chessboard because squares are 2-D and chessboards are 3-D. That means N=189356203465915470369316514506503465017438713287183431798035671462397417509132801249132649123401365981346193274, M=355156764712637645136436172643275173419274695432458678273827654621675167519549678653736126516751967547695867541, and P=0.

Well, on a fifth-dimensional plane, notions like 'square' or 'how many?' lose all of their contextual meaning .. So the answer ought to be 'pink'.

64 because 8x8=64

You can have squares on the surface of a 3D object.

This is certainly an incorrect answer.

The correct answer without being creative or pedantic is 204.

In case you can't figure out why, take a much simpler 2x2 board. There are five squares, not four. 

Four small ones, and one large one. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess Read this because it proves I'm right.

haha citing wikipedia.

Either you're a really good troll, or this has gone completely over your head.