English Explanatory Dictionary

chessboard distance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Synonym of Chebyshev distance.

Word forms

chessboard distance chessboard distances

Etymology

So called because, in the game of chess, the minimum number of moves needed by a king to go from one square on a chessboard to another equals the Chebyshev distance between the centers of the squares, if the squares have side length one, as represented in 2-D spatial coordinates with axes aligned to the edges of the board.

Synonyms

Chebyshev distance
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