The Chess-board.
The most ancient and most enduring feature of Chess is certainly the board, the table upon which it is played, the field of the Chess struggle. In consists of 64 parts every one a small square, in their totality composing a large square. In eight rows and, perpendicularly thereto, in eight lines the 64 squares are ordered. Consequently one can draw a Chess-board by halving the side of a big square three times in succession as shown by the following diagrams.