chessboard distance

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What does chessboard distance mean?

Synonym of Chebyshev distance.

Where does chessboard distance come from?

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.

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