A board, usually square, covered with such a pattern; especially such a board with 64 squares, used to play chess and draughts / checkers.
Verbit
(transitive) To checker; to mark with an alternating pattern of light and dark.
Esimerkit
The town lay in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields.