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'''[[Main Page|Home]] * [[Chess]] * [[Squares]] * Color of a Square'''
[[FILE:Study for Homage to the Square.jpg|border|right|thumb| [[:Category:Josef Albers|Josef Albers]] - Study for Homage to the Square <ref>[[:Category:Josef Albers|Josef Albers]] - One Study for the Homage to the Square Series, Exhibition in [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrat_Bottrop Josef Albers Museum Quadrat], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottrop Bottrop], Photo by [[Gerd Isenberg]], September 16, 2018</ref> ]]
The '''Color of a Square''' of a [[8x8 Board|8x8 board]] may be determined by several approaches. Since the number of files (and ranks) is even, and black and white colors alternate on consecutive ranks (and files), one can not use the simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_%28mathematics%29 parity] of the combined square index in the 0..63 range. Applications are mostly related square color bounded [[Bishop|bishops]], for instance to find the right corners in [[KBNK Endgame]].
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