Chessboard?

How many square are there on a chess board?

323 179 201 204 64 81

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André Hucek
Oct 27, 2017

A regular chessboard has 32 32 black squares and 32 32 white squares 8 8 = 64 squares \implies 8 \cdot 8 = 64 \ \text{squares}

However the total number of all squares can be thought of as: 8 2 + 7 2 + 6 2 + + 3 2 + 2 2 + and the one large square (whole board) 8^2 + 7^2 + 6^2 + \cdots +3^2 + 2^2 + \ \text{and the one large square (whole board)} .

Which gives a total of 204 squares \boxed{204 \ \text{squares}}

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