Open the Tensorflow Playground (www.playground.tensorflow.org) and select on the left the checkerboard pattern as the data basis.
The data is taken from a two-dimensional probability distribution and is represented by the value pairs $x_1$ and $x_2$. The regions $x1$, $x_2 > 0$ and $x_1$, $x_2 < 0$ are shown by one color. For value pairs with $x_1 > 0$, $x_2 < 0$ and $x_1 < 0$, $x_2 > 0$, the regions are indicated by a different color.
In features, select the two independent variables $x_1$ and $x_2$ and start the network training. The network learns that $x_1$ and $x_2$ are for these data not independent variables, but are taken from the probability distribution of the checkerboard pattern.
ReLU
as activation function. What is the smallest network that gives a good fit result?