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3177. Chessboard Alignment

title text: Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.

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Single panel comic.

Overhead view of three chess boards and the top of the heads of six players. All of the games are in progress with white on the bottom and black on top. In the middle board there is a dotted yellow line from the home square of the white queen on the bottom row to the last square in the top row (black home squares) on the right board, which contains a white queen. The player using white on the middle board has moved closer to the board on the right.

Lower caption: It doesn't happen often because it requires micrometer precision, but if two chess boards are *perfectly* aligned it's actually legal to move pieces between them.