Geometry Paradox Puzzle

Take a chessboard and cut it into four pieces as shown below. Now, reassemble the pieces to create a rectangle with larger area.

Here is the original square:


Rearranged, we have:


The area of the square is 64, while the area of the rectangle is 65. How is this possible?




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