A standard checkers or chess board has eight rows of eight squares in alternating colors, light and dark, for5 a total of 64 same-sized squares. However, as a trick question, four of these squares may be arranged to be a square (and these overlap). You could have 3x3 squares, 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, and 7x7 squares, and of course the whole board is one big 8x8 square.