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My for-loop that outputs a chessboard only works with even numbers, WHY?

2022-05-06 08:27 Marisa Kirisame imported from Stackoverflow

Write a program that creates a string that represents an 8×8 grid, using newline characters to separate lines. At each position of the grid there is either a space or a "#" character. The characters should form a chessboard.

/* Passing this string to console.log should show something like this:

 # # # #
# # # # 
 # # # #
# # # # 
 # # # #
# # # # 
 # # # #
# # # #
When you have a program that generates this pattern, define a binding size = 8 and change the program so that it works for any size, */

outputting a grid of the given width and height.

Here's my answer:

let countPosition = 0, countLine = 0, size = 8, output = '';

for (let i =0; i < size; i++) {
    for (let j = 0; j < size; j++) {
        if (countLine % 2 == 0) { 

            if (countPosition % 2 == 0) {
            output += " "; 
            }
            else {
            output += "#"; 
            } 
         } else {
             if (countPosition % 2 == 0) {
                 output += "#";
             }
             else {
                 output += ' ';
             } 
             
         } countPosition += 1;
        
    } countLine += 1;
      output += '\n';  
}  
    

    console.log(output);
    console.log(countLine);

My problem is that my code only works with even numbers!!!!! WHY???!! I have been stuck with this for a while I don't understand what's wrong with the code. It looks so logical why would it not work with odd numbers why? Any intellectual out there please explain this weird quirk.

This is a problem from Eloquent JavaScript: (https://eloquentjavascript.net/02_program_structure.html#i_swb9JBtSQQ)

(Edit: sorry for the weird formatting above, I couldn't get the chessboard to look okay without writing it as if it were a code snippet)

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