| 单词 | chessboard |
| 例句 | As for the public, the sentiment among most people was: “What are they going to do, throw him in jail for ten years for moving wooden pieces across a chessboard?” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I noticed Candy Man sitting alone with his chessboard, begging some of the other guys to sit and play. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I, too, awaited the king’s move, like his pawn on a chessboard. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He jerked his head toward the chair across from him at the table and pushed the chessboard to one side. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I looked at my neighbor across the chessboard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z An animal inhabits its space, whether in a zoo or in the wild, in the same way chess pieces move about a chessboard—significantly. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet Fischer, the man who’d tried so hard to control things on and off the chessboard, never wrote a will. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The chessboard tumbled from her hands, and now all the other pieces joined the black pawn on the floor. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He never said much, but he studied Cole the way a person looks at a chessboard planning the next move. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Alex pushed open the heavy swing door and went into a room with a tiled chessboard floor and about fifty shelves fanning out from a central reception area. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There are several chessboards with missing pieces, and pieces without boards of their own lined up on windowsills and bookshelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Two ginger ales for the chessboard coming right up." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa pushed the chessboard aside and excused himself to use the phone in his study. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It looks like a chessboard of a sore loser. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After school, Mr. Daniels is setting up a chessboard and pieces at the reading table. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He needed further time to study the pieces on the chessboard, to figure out a strategy for his Olympic endgame before he even began to move pieces around. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But more important than the question of whether Bobby would inspire another “Fischer boom” was the question of whether his immense and innate talent could find its release on the chessboard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bobby peered over the chessboard, scanning and evaluating—attempting not just to suggest a Russian conspiracy, but to prove it unequivocally. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I looked down at the chessboard to avoid any look Candy Man might have been giving. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In front of me is a fully clothed Guillermo and a fully clothed English guy on opposite sides of a chessboard. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Rooms that spin and rooms with glowing chessboard floors. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I carefully drew a handmade chessboard and pinned it to the wall next to my bed, where at night I would stare for hours at imaginary battles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The floors were like marble chessboards, and the ceilings were like cakes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There, beside the glowing yellow night-light of his radio dial, chessboard at his side, chess books and magazines spread around the room, he’d let his thoughts drift. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She simply allowed her legs to buckle beneath her, sinking to the chessboard linoleum floor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Realizing that his next move might ruin his life, Bobby, whose life on the chessboard had always been about preparation and calculation, decided that people in desperate positions must take desperate chances. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She propped her camera up to her face for a shot of the chessboard. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They arrange the pieces into a chess game: on the tabletop chessboard the gods of Asgard face their eternal enemies. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Oscar’s eyes widen but his attention’s back on the chessboard. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Swimming gave him the chance to move and exercise his body, to uncramp it from the stiffening stillness of sitting with a chessboard or a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There is no more happenstance, no more “freedom”, involved in the whereabouts of a lizard or a bear or a deer than in the location of a knight on a chessboard. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The day he moved she sat on the front porch banisters and watched him get out of the ten-cent taxi with his suitcase and his chessboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Like the number of squares on a chessboard—an irony that nevertheless cannot be pressed too far—he was sixty-four. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘A pawn did Gandalf say? Perhaps; but on the wrong chessboard.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I have a second chair set up in front of me as an art desk, with stacks of board games on it and a chessboard on top. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of the Times, with the page turned down at the chess problem. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z New York City’s mayor Edward I. Koch wrote him a letter trying to convince him to come back to the chessboard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He had a nostalgic vision of his comer table, with the newspaper and the chessboard and the ever-flowing gin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The next page showed a picture of a chessboard, upon which all the pieces and pawns rested in their starting positions, except for a black pawn, which had advanced two spaces. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He turned back to the chessboard and picked up the white knight again. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Singer put on a pot of coffee and got out his chessboard. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They were standing on the edge of a huge chessboard, behind the black chessmen, which were all taller than they were and carved from what looked like black stone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Passing the chessboard he saw that white had made a second move. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z As he sat in front of the chessboard, often at the kitchen table, with a chess book spread open, the pieces became his companions, the book his mentor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm sort of glad Sandy didn't go back to the chessboard after my last move. He never knew he lost the game." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He had begun to like him on the September afternoon when he first appeared at his cell door carrying a folded chessboard beneath his arm and a Havana cigar box full of chess pieces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Recognizing Bobby’s greater need for money than the capture of a title, however prestigious, Bisguier noted: “Evidently, his mature judgment is not solely confined to the chessboard.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The chessboard was always waiting for him, his comer table was always reserved; even when the place was full he had it to himself, since nobody cared to be seen sitting too close to him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was a chessboard on the table beside them, with the pieces set out, but no game started. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Visualizing his white pawn in front of his king on an imaginary chessboard, thirteen-year-old Bobby Fischer announced his first move to his opponent, Jack Collins: “Pawn to king four.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The hollow pieces were barely taller than an inch, and the set came with a folding cardboard chessboard that had red and black squares. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A certain compulsion forced him to continue to search for the secrets of the chessboard, and this preoccupation commanded his attention for hours on end. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Montague stamped across the room to the chessboard and took up a knight and regarded it furiously. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I could see things on the chessboard that other people could not. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After many days had gone by in silence, I sat in my room, staring at the sixty-four squares of my chessboard, trying to think of another way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After dinner that night, Celaena sat across the chessboard from Dorian. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A rueful smile, a shrug, and a nod as if to a skillful opponent who’d made a good move at the chessboard: that was what her body said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He had knocked his father down and perhaps there were some new positions on the chessboard, but the game would go on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Morales assured me that when he heard the rapping, he’d take the chessboard off the bars and place it under his bunk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared at my chessboard, its sixty-four squares, to figure out how to undo this terrible mess. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Tal had to be stopped, if not on the chessboard, then in some other way. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In my head, I saw a chessboard with sixty-four black and white squares. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Walowick had put the chessboard on a box, and we started setting up the pieces. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember this one? It shows a picture of a chessboard with only a black pawn out of its original position, and it reads, ‘According to the rules of chess, is this position possible?’ The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The doctor at the chessboard stood in respect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the Central Park of Johannesburg—beautiful gardens, a zoo, a giant chessboard with human-sized pieces that people would play. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I wheel him to his friends who are waiting, with chessboards spread, eager to see him. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I stare at the floor; it’s made up of foot-long tiles in red and white, like a chessboard, and I imagine how a knight would move across it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Only after hours of exercise would he sit down at his chessboard. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And off he’d go to his chessboard, without his mother’s permission, leaving his school assignments in abeyance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The hip-hop duet with Bobby Jesus, a street kid who is her talented young studio apprentice, unfurls on a vast chessboard landscape scanned by celebrity klieg lights crossed with police searchlights. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z After spending an hour with Tara last week, “The Walking Dead” offered a broader look at the chessboard on Sunday as it lined up the pieces for next week’s midseason finale. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 7: Dictatorship 101 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z I didn’t want them to be figures on a chessboard, O.K.? ArtsBeat Blog: Errol Morris Interviews Stephen King 2011-11-10T14:39:00Z Nagaland and the Naga tribes remain pawns on a global chessboard. India's final frontier 2010-12-11T00:06:21Z They might struggle with the yoke at the beginning, but ultimately they move as pawns on his chessboard. How similar to real life politics is House of Cards? 2013-07-04T02:13:44Z For his part, Chuck also moves some pieces around this three-dimensional chessboard. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 2: Part of the Firmament 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z The inventor asks for a single grain of rice to be placed on the chessboard’s first square, and for it to be doubled on each subsequent square. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z This dream-like quality is reflected in the video – premiered here – which involves Cale cavorting around as he croaks lyrics such as "swirling around her, dizzy as a top on a chessboard". New music: John Cale – Face to the Sky 2012-08-30T06:00:00Z In Tactics Ogre the chessboard is replaced with rural realms realised in a visual style that evokes a sense of the gaming of the 1990s, and the rules are certainly more complex than most board . Tactics Ogre: Let us Cling Together ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:25Z Before I was able to review Amane, though, the pandemic descended and scattered all the pieces on the chessboard of New York dining. The Sushi at Shion 69 Leonard Street Is Among New York’s Best 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z In the docuseries, you said your life was "like a chessboard" that was strictly controlled & monitored by your grandfather, Armand Hammer. "It's hard to watch": Armie Hammer's aunt on her family's "sick and twisted behavior" in new series 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Observing the play of power across “the chessboard of central Italy,” is smooth and wary Machiavelli. When Alec Baldwin reads his memoir to us, it’s even better than the book 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z But the majority of the play happens away from the chessboard. Manchester International Festival 2013 2013-05-24T15:30:58Z It takes a lot of shady maneuvering to get the two queens of Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 “Mary Stuart” to the center of the chessboard. To kill a queen: Mary vs. Elizabeth in Schiller classic ‘Mary Stuart’ at the Folger 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z On Musgraves’s superb debut album, 2013’s “Same Trailer, Different Park,” she found smart ways to speak her truth, waltzing across the industry chessboard while projecting the image of a young woman following her own rules. Is Kacey Musgraves singing all this ‘be yourself’ stuff into the mirror? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Moreover, as Leonard manipulates the pawns on this chessboard, the film's few "surprises" are hardly startling. Mark Rylance is the one reason to try on "The Outfit," a crime drama that looks better than it feels 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Four haggard people are crammed into a claustrophobic café setting, where measured moves on a chessboard substitute silent strategies of attack for convivial sociability. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z I couldn't resist Facebooking a photo of Diego in full Celtics gear -- Paul Pierce jersey, green wristbands and headband - hunched over a chessboard in a death match with a more conventionally dressed 5th grader. Motherlode Blog: The Jock (and his Dad) at the Chess Board 2012-07-29T11:00:43Z This is a character who navigates his path with an obsessive orderliness, moving according to the rules of some chessboard game of his own invention. The 'Curious Incident' of a young detective set loose to find life's truths 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The town sits on a hilltop, its skyline marked by a tower that looks like it was plucked off a giant chessboard. | Ciao, Tuscany! 2012-08-09T15:21:49Z No fewer than a dozen of her outfits contain geometric patterns mirroring the chessboard, but Ms. Binder would never do anything so obvious as to print a chessboard onto a top or a skirt. ‘Queen’s Gambit’ Costumes Make Us Want to Toss Our Leggings 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z When he realized that his own mother had blown up the Sept and everyone in it, Tommen’s response was to very calmly fall from a high window, removing himself from his mother’s chessboard. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It’s always about our controlling the pieces on the chessboard. Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again 2012-11-25T03:37:22Z This land is also home to a three-dimensional chessboard of seemingly endless war — American drones killing the Taliban; Sunni Muslims bombing Shia Muslims; and an underground, generations-old fight for independence from the central government. ‘The Shadow of the Crescent Moon,’ by Fatima Bhutto 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z We are on the cusp of exponential technological advancement, sometimes referred to as “the second half of the chessboard”. Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Manchester Woodcraft, open since 1950, sells every kind of wooden knickknack imaginable, including chessboards and Adirondack chairs, much of them made on the premises. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z “It’s like a chessboard,” as one resident says, and it’s hard to tell who’s winning or what the stakes might be. 'Bellona, Destroyer of Cities': The Feral Dwellers of ?Dhalgren? at the Kitchen 2010-04-06T21:23:00Z The question is, when we do see the full breadth of the chessboard, will viewers still care? Westworld finale: even with the spot-on fan theories we're still left guessing 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z The chessboard was set up for a rematch. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Who Plays Aquaman’s Nemesis, Gets Schooled in Chess 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Most game theory, he noted, treats players as equally “rational” parties sitting across a chessboard. Michael Chwe, Author, Sees Jane Austen as Game Theorist 2013-04-22T22:06:09Z My journey cut through towns of whitewashed buildings with terracotta roofs, past rich green pastures, walled off like squares on a chessboard. Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z They need to set up the chessboard, though; the fun will start once all the pieces are in place. 'Arya should skewer Ed Sheeran': your verdict on the new Game of Thrones 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z Why is the chessboard next to the stove? Jennifer Packer: Painting as an Exercise in Tenderness 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z I didn’t think the Knight’s Tour — a classic spatial challenge adapted for the 5-by-5 “chessboard” of Zoom — was worth its complicated setup. Review: What’s ‘Inside the Box’? A Rewarding (Rewording) Time 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z There are barracks, warehouses and instruments of recreation, including another chessboard and billiard table, but also scenes of what seem like military training. For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Their creations — from a chessboard to a 3-D elephant with tusks, to trucks, spaceships and castles — are interspersed with tips and “Meet the Builder” biographical sections. Books Of Style: Surprising Histories, With Drinks 2011-12-16T22:36:27Z Grande dame antebellum homes, with dramatic approaches and column-lined porches, anchor this place like rooks on chessboard corners. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z For Beth, the chessboard becomes an aesthetic form that exists on its own terms, as opposed to one that symbolises the global politics and gender tension of the US in the 60s. Check her out: how Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit thrills with fashion 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Follow winding paths through landscaped gardens focused on the diverse flora of the Carolinas, and past a giant chessboard with toddler-size pieces fashioned from recycled metal. 36 Hours in Chapel Hill-Carrboro, N.C. 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z And it's uncompromising in how it lays things out, taking a full hour to set its pieces on the chessboard and not making its first big move until the final seconds of the pilot. "Game of Thrones": HBO's dense, demanding epic 2011-04-14T14:30:00Z “Those guys are adversaries across the chessboard just like the lawyers here,” he said, gesturing toward the federal court, where federal grand juries meet and where special counsel Robert Mueller is at work. Perspective | Washington’s sculptured life 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z “Arches of Air” evokes a floating architecture on a chessboard landscape. At Tacoma Art Museum: Camille Patha’s vivid ‘Punch of Color’ 2014-02-27T22:26:49Z The Mexican artist is known for many kinds of work: from drawings on skulls and whale skeletons, to moulded clay hearts and chessboards filled only with knights. The best art exhibitions and events for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:10:01Z That, in turn, forces Butler to press too hard in describing the moves on the chessboard. Is Chess a Sport? A New Book Says Yes 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Now the artist is rendering his signature works at tabletop scale in a series of Yellin-ized chessboards. Dustin Yellin’s Artful Chessboards at New York’s Atelier Courbet 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z For warmer months, there are games such as ping-pong and a giant chessboard . 10 buildings you must see around the new boom-time Washington 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Sequestered on a quiet block under Mr. Levine’s Chalk Point restaurant, this subterranean wood-paneled lair is stuffed with leisure-class accouterments like a baby grand, shelves of weighty tomes and a surprisingly popular chessboard table. Handy Liquor Bar in SoHo 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z No writer who includes a punch-up on a giant chessboard can fail to, probably. The Yips by Nicola Barker - review 2012-07-18T07:00:03Z Seeing the emperor at his chessboard, the peasant chooses rice, requesting one grain for the first square, two for the second, four for the third, and so on. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z Here that requires random thriller material sprinkled throughout the plot, but the characters being moved around the narrative chessboard fall flat. "Captive State" is boring 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z The question is, when we do see the full breadth of the chessboard, will viewers still care? Westworld finale: even with the spot-on fan theories we're still left guessing 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z The floor is a gleaming black-and-white chessboard, while giant playing cards swoop across the ceiling, and red pawns prop up the checkout counter. "Nope" and the Fry's Electronics UFO sighting that almost wasn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z It includes a scene where inmates are figures in a chess game and are killed when they are taken off the chessboard. Auschwitz Museum upset at scene in Amazon series “Hunters” 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z A chessboard dwarfs a Ping-Pong table and paddle. For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The writer advised readers to avoid a chessboard “as they would an adder’s nest” because “chess misdirects and exhausts their intellectual energies.” How video games suck you in: “Our sense of time becomes yoked, not to the ticking of the clock, but to the pattern of our interactions” 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z This second rash of local murder from the 15th series of Midsomer finds its motif on the chessboard, taking its title from the Sicilian defence. TV highlights 09/01/2013 2013-01-08T20:00:01Z The semiotics, too, are glaring; her commitment to the chessboard is such that she dresses like one. Check her out: how Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit thrills with fashion 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In fact, there's a "Dark Triad" of character types disproportionately represented in office environments: psychopaths, who have no conscience; machiavels, to whom others are but pieces on a chessboard; and narcissists, bursting with malignant self-love. Office Politics: How to Thrive in a World of Lying, Backstabbing and Dirty Tricks by Oliver James – review 2013-02-14T07:00:02Z Mannheim’s downtown, dating to 1607, is laid out in a quirky chessboard grid, with letters and numbers based on a street’s position in relation to the palace, hence its nickname “the City of Squares.” In Germany, site of the ‘first bike tour in history’ has much to offer modern-day visitors 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z It also embraced color: soft dawn pink or apricot for shearling jackets; and pattern, in the black, white and gray chessboard of tweed that closed the show. Fashion Review: Rick Owens and a Vibe From the Tribe 2012-03-01T19:23:40Z But amid the parade of bizarre episodes, the overall impression was one of clarity, with a stage floor covered in a chessboard pattern and Susanna Malkki conducting the Philharmonic with cool, confident lucidity. Review: ‘Alice in Wonderland,’ by Unsuk Chin, Told With Restraint 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z “I teach the kids that for every problem on the chessboard, you have to find a solution.” Brooklyn Castle: The Cool Kids Play Chess 2012-10-19T18:42:39Z It was among the most diverse cities in 17th-century Europe, described as a tablero de ajedrez: a “chessboard” on which white and Black residents crisscrossed with an international cast of merchants, sailors and servants. A Familiar Face at the Met, Now in His Own Light 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z In a neat reflection of our video-call world, the clothes are designed to be viewed over a chessboard, because that is where the camera spends most of its time. Check her out: how Netflix hit The Queen’s Gambit thrills with fashion 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Yet Wagner Moura is excellent at suggesting the chessboard in Escobar’s mind as key pieces are moved around or, in the case of “the Lion” and Velasco, a chief enforcer, taken off the board altogether. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 5: No Turning Back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Mamba power — with its chessboard strategies, gravity-defying stealth moves, Marvel Comics-levels of proprioception — played a role in most aspects of Kobe Bryant’s existence, so it is hardly surprising to learn that this also included fashion. Kobe Bryant’s Many Moves to the Net 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Tapas, shared plates, tasting menus, wine pairings, “Chef recommends,” two-hour waits for a table the size of a chessboard — no, none of that. Restaurant Review: Keith McNally’s Cherche Midi 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Game of Thrones charts the power struggles between warring families in a medieval fantasy world, with each new chapter like a new move on the chessboard of Westeros. How Fighting Fantasy beat traditional games 2012-08-28T09:50:51Z Here the villain is marginalized and ridiculed; two women he tried to make pawns get control of the chessboard. Lecher Actress Victim Spy 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z An experienced viewer wonders if he’s about to molest her; instead he introduces her to the chessboard. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “I love the chessboard at this particular moment,” he said later, when the screening was over and he was alone in the conference room with a reporter. Television: A Show About Something: Marriage 2010-02-27T06:47:00Z He remembers one arrangement, a soiled onesie on a chessboard mat splashed with runic handwriting. Turning Trash Into Poetry 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z There was the show in which models dressed in rigid body armor were deployed by radio signal across a giant chessboard like so many rooks and queens. 2010-02-12T21:59:00Z If the show’s dark knight, Don, can continue to make the right moves on a chessboard that’s constantly changing, maybe he’s got another decade, too. ArtsBeat: ‘Mad Men’ Watch: The Dark Knight Returns 2014-04-28T11:54:49Z The editors, like everyone else on the chessboard, are expendable. Paper Giants: Magazine Wars - TV review 2013-06-02T15:04:00Z Stretching out before the visitor to the Baltic is an immense checkerboard floor: 65,536 chessboards, to be precise, laid edge to edge. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z The easy metaphor is that he plays Chicago politics like a chessboard, but really he wrestles it physically, like some complex, recalcitrant machine with rusty wheels and leather straps. Starz?s Politics Drama Boss: Powerful But Messy, Just Like Its Subject 2011-10-21T12:23:02Z Over the weekend, a representative from Goliath Games went on NPR and announced that sales of chessboards were up one thousand percent from last holiday season. Perspective | ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ a period drama that erases sexism from 1960, is the best fantasy show of the year 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The next piece on the global chessboard is China, which Biden — like Trump before him — has identified as the United States’ main competitor. Column: Could wars in Ukraine, Gaza bring 'major changes in the international order'? Fiona Hill thinks so 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z "People who think that this is a chessboard and they can move a few pawns here and there and have a checkmate move at the end. This isn't going to happen," she says. Israel has no plan for Gaza after war ends, experts warn 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Yet, astonishingly, there is no public outcry when renowned intellectuals propose the same fate for Eastern Europe, as though we are not people but mere pawns on a global chessboard. "Putin's Western fan club" wants to force Eastern Europe into a Russian bearhug 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z “There was so much energy in the city and behind the scenes. We had all the writers, producers, studios, all the key parts of the chessboard.” The year Outkast and Atlanta took over hip-hop 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z At the chessboard, he defeated many notable players and was a four-time New Jersey state champion. The last shall be first: Zatonskih scores surprise win in women’s chess tilt 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “This is a critical move on really the chessboard of his life as he contemplates his future.” Dudamel in surprise move resigns from Paris Opéra 2 years into 6-year contract 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Bishop learned chess the old-fashioned way, with a family chessboard and by experimenting with the board pieces: pawns, bishops, knights, rooks, queens and kings. Real-life ‘The Queen’s Gambit’: Custodian leads school chess teams in Maine 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z His $100 million defamation lawsuit is in limbo, but young American GM Hans Moke Niemann is back to battling at the chessboard. Niemann back at the chessboard as FIDE delays cheating analysis 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z No man who amasses millions can do that without being canny and far-sighted and possessing a strategic ruthlessness that he deployed on the chessboard and at the poker table as well as in the boardroom. At Richard J. Riordan's book club, nearly 30 years of Proust, wine and friends 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Wherever he goes this year, his chessboard will follow. Drew Millas and his chessboard bring camaraderie to Nats clubhouse 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Much of the pre-visit focus has been on whether or not Mr. Austin will win a deal to secure significant new basing rights in the country — a key square on the Indo-Pacific chessboard. Defense Secretary Austin’s trip fuels talks of bigger U.S. military presence in Philippines 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Harry says he felt neither satisfaction nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combatants as pieces being removed from a chessboard, “Bads taken away before they could kill Goods.” ‘Spare’ but not stingy: takeaways from Prince Harry’s memoir 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z He writes that he feels neither satisfaction nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combatants as pieces being removed from a chessboard, “Baddies eliminated before they could kill Goodies.” Harry’s claim he killed 25 in Afghanistan draws anger, worry 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He said he felt neither pride nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combatants as pieces being removed from a chessboard. Prince Harry says William attacked him during argument: Memoir 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Harry says he felt neither satisfaction nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combatants as pieces being removed from a chessboard, “Baddies eliminated before they could kill Goodies.” Prince Harry’s book exposes grief, war, drugs, family rifts 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Kim has been promoting and firing top officials like pieces on a chessboard, frequently reshuffling his government. Is Kim Jong-un’s ‘Most Beloved Daughter’ North Korea’s Next Leader? 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson attributes much of his growth as a player to the strategies he’s learned at a chessboard. An old nemesis dooms Dorian Thompson-Robinson and UCLA in Sun Bowl loss 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z It looked more like a bishop on a chessboard. Easter Island rebounds from wildfire that singed its statues 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z The chessboard movements of Proust’s actors are just one element of his grand design, however. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z It's how you see the chessboard, how you see the map. Former GOP chair Michael Steele: Democrats are "inept," media are "hypocrites and liars" 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The players carefully placed large plastic pieces that glowed red and blue in the night before they stood on opposite sides of the large chessboard to strategize how to capture the opposing king. Howard students host nighttime chess game to raise funds for competition 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson attributes much of his growth as a player to the strategies he’s learned at a chessboard. An old nemesis dooms Dorian Thompson-Robinson and UCLA in Sun Bowl loss 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Ethnic enclaves within states of other national ethnic groups — Kyrgyz inside Tajikistan, Uzbeks inside Kyrgyzstan, Tajiks inside Uzbekistan — have led locals to nickname these spaces “chessboard” borders. The Tajik Artisans Guarding the Country’s Cultural Legacy 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Thankfully, it’s all been confined to the chessboard. Niemann, rivals keep U.S. championship drama confined to the chessboard 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z The Corinthian action unfolds below a massive mirror tilted over the stage — a god’s-eye view that lends the tragedy an extra layer of inevitability — silly mortals given the chessboard treatment. Review | 3 operas in 3 days? With Met’s powerful fall trio, it was energizing. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z But it did not feel very good to be a pawn on some legal chessboard. The Student Loan Borrowers Who Keep Missing Out on Relief 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Now, as a senior tackle at Maryland, Anderson applies his skills on the chessboard to the football field, where he anchors the right side of the Terrapins’ offensive line. A chess-playing tackle helps Maryland’s offensive line plot its next moves 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z He may be at the center of a raging global scandal with his accusations of possible cheating by a fellow grandmaster, but world champion Magnus Carlsen is showing no signs of stress at the chessboard. Compartmentalizing Carlsen wins at the chessboard while fanning cheating controversy 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “And the energy chessboard is likely to keep shifting in the months and years to come.” Ostracized by the West, Russia Finds a Partner in Saudi Arabia 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z It takes another couple of installments to finish putting all the pieces on the chessboard, but once the game is finally set up for play, things become quickly auspicious. Review | ‘House of the Dragon’ is ‘Game of Thrones’ with more wigs, less grandeur 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z YORK, England — Pints in hand, a group of men sat hunched over chessboards under the sloping ceiling beams of the Eagle and Child pub in York, in northern England. His Next Move: A Ukrainian Boy Starts a New Life Through Chess 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z “I feel like I’m going to be that old guy in the park with my clock and my chessboard.” A chess-playing tackle helps Maryland’s offensive line plot its next moves 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z However, that dynamic is somewhat offset by the chessboard. How Pac-12 benefits from ESPN getting shut out of Big Ten media deal 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Normally played like the queen on the chessboard of Orange High’s offense, the running back feels like a pawn. Orange High football star Kobe Boykin wants to be the one in his family to make it 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world's geopolitical chessboard. Nancy Pelosi's reckless trip to Taiwan: A decision that could get us all killed 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z On top of that, there is a cabal of armored enemies who control the colonies like pieces on a chessboard. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is as enjoyable as it is inscrutable 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Or maybe he will take his chances by shaking up the chessboard next summer, eyeing a more fulfilling final chapter somewhere else. Analysis | The Lakers’ mess complicates LeBron James’s extension decision 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Four adults then rush in, struggling to free the boy before leading him away from the chessboard. Chess-playing robot breaks child’s finger at Moscow event 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The multi-billionaire then tweeted a picture showing American actor and martial artist Chuck Norris at a chessboard, with a follow up post saying "Chuckmate". Twitter shares fall as Elon Musk backs out of deal 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the grandmaster stays quiet, examining the chessboard and plotting its next move. Analysis: With survival at stake, Pac-12 should consider merging with the ACC 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z The match that ensued is perhaps the greatest illustration of the Fischer paradox — the man who would prove so tragically delusional away from the game was perhaps the greatest realist ever at the chessboard. Fischer was a model of sanity and realism — at the chessboard 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z The resulting lattice consisted of hexagons—we call it the “heavy hex” layout—and looks like the Settlers of Catan game board rather than a chessboard. How to Fix Quantum Computing Bugs 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Although tensions exist in the bilateral relationship, not least because of the growing economic gap between their economies, the broader geopolitical chessboard draws Moscow and Beijing together. Perspective | The worse things go for Putin in Ukraine, the more China will back him 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z The video opens in an ornate and stunningly realistic room before zooming in on a mysterious woman sitting in front of a chessboard. Unity’s impressive new ‘Enemies’ short shows off a remarkably realistic digital human 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z With his depth of foreign knowledge and experience, he has thus far outplayed Putin on the international chessboard. Vladimir Putin is losing the war — at least on social media. Here's why that matters 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z U.S. officials and technology executives are attempting to navigate this chessboard of risk and reward as they assemble a potent set of punitive moves against Russia. U.S. tech dominance could offer leverage over Russia — or backfire 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z It features data and helper qubits alternating on a two-dimensional square grid like black and white squares on a chessboard. How to Fix Quantum Computing Bugs 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The fraternal bonds that long linked Russia and Ukraine were nowhere more evident than at the chessboard. Russian chess suffers as war divides two great powers of the game 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Nine of the brand’s U.S.-based hotels offer a selection of chessboards that can be sent up to guests’ rooms. LPs, Vitamix blenders and potted plants: How hotel libraries are getting creative 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Putin hasn’t made a bold chess move; he has overturned the chessboard. Opinion | Putin’s attack on Ukraine is about more than his own delusions of grandeur 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z Sixteen Thirty is part of a broader network of progressive nonprofits that donors used to fill specific spaces on the political chessboard. Democrats decried dark money. Then they won with it in 2020 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z She was 20 when she sat down at a chessboard opposite the 75-year-old conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp. Eve Babitz, who chronicled and reveled in Hollywood hedonism, dies at 78 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z Certainly, that is the case in Julian Wassser’s 1963 photograph of her sitting naked at a chessboard with the Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. All about Eve Babitz: Artists Ed and Paul Ruscha on the late L.A. icon 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z “Even more regrettable is the fact that migrants are increasingly being used as bargaining chips, as pawns on a chessboard, victims of political rivalries.” Europe’s migrant crisis dominates pope’s Cyprus-Greece trip 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Prof Han also believes further ties in Afghanistan allow President Erdogan to "broaden the chessboard" of his foreign policy and play to his AK Party's support base. Afghanistan: Qatar and Turkey become Taliban's lifeline to the outside world 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z A new governor would walk onto the same chessboard of labor groups, those who build affordable housing, market rate developers and Realtors that has frustrated many recent attempts to boost housing supply. Here's how the recall candidates say they'd boost housing production in California 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Scheller’s video Sunday, he spoke wearing civilian attire seated at a table displaying a chessboard in what he described as an abandoned bus in North Carolina. Fired Marine officer doubles down on holding brass to account 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Yes, I was among the masses lured into buying a chessboard and giving it a go. During the pandemic, we discovered a lot of great TV. Here are some shows we think you should binge. 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z After a year spent hunched over their MacBooks, enduring back-to-back Zooms in between sourdough loaves and Peloton rides, they are flipping the carefully arranged chessboards of their lives and deciding to risk it all. Welcome to the YOLO Economy 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Most significantly, they operate on different electoral timelines and are playing on different political chessboards. Opinion | McConnell and McCarthy are playing different games with Trump. They might both win. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “My current collection,” writes one poster, laying out their four Zunes on a chessboard, Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr. Blue Sky” cued up on the one in the middle. Microsoft killed the Zune, but Zune-heads are still here 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z And so, Trump deserves credit for seeking to rearrange the chessboard in the Middle East. Opinion | Trump’s recognition of Western Sahara is a serious blow to diplomacy and international law 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z For the first time, all of the male pieces on the emerald chessboard of a field will be set by ... her. Perspective | Kim Ng’s hire doesn’t solve gender inequity, but it takes ‘unprecedented’ to ‘possible’ 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z What else is Trump doing besides pushing pawns like Watnick and Ellis around his right-wing chessboard? Trump is going out the way he came in: A loser, a liar and a cheat 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z “The turf, the tennis court, the chessboard and pavement hopscotch cannot formally be distinguished from the temple or the magic circle,” Huizinga writes. What I Learned Inside the N.B.A. Bubble 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “It’s like a gigantic chessboard — depending on the level of care the patient needs, we’re constantly moving people around to congregate them in the best place.” Riverside County surpasses 20,000 coronavirus cases. That wasn't supposed to happen yet 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Chess players are encouraged to sit at separate tables with separate chessboards and call out moves to each other. Public Spaces Weren’t Designed for Pandemics. N.Y.C. Is Trying to Adapt. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z To him, the pitch was like a chessboard, and he and his teammates were the pieces working in harmony toward victory. Pandemic Leaves a Void for Young Athletes Seeking to Make College Teams 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z But they welcomed the little girl with a ponytail, even though she often demolished them on a chessboard. A Chess Prodigy’s Return to Health Brings Cheer to the Game 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z The Tang poet Bai Juyi compared the city’s layout to “a great chessboard.” A Poetic Journey Through Western China 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z He suggested that one grain of wheat should be placed on the first square of the chessboard, two grains on the second, and so on, with the sum doubling in this way over 64 squares. I'm an ER doctor. Please take coronavirus seriously | Clayton Dalton 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z The 2016 chessboard has reappeared, but this time in the Democratic Party primary. The new rules of the game 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It was two players facing each other across a nuclear chessboard. John le Carré on Brexit: ‘It’s breaking my heart’ 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z But staring at an online chessboard and concentrating on the game she loves? A Chess Prodigy’s Return to Health Brings Cheer to the Game 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z “Tillerson’s years of negotiating with Putin and studying his moves on the chessboard were suddenly irrelevant,” the duo writes. New book portrays Trump as erratic, ‘at times dangerously uninformed’ 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z In an earlier interview on "Fox & Friends," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged that the administration's moves on the chessboard would eventually lead to "success and stability" in the Middle East. Gen. Keane on Soleimani strike: Trump had a 'red line' for Iran and he enforced it 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z She also became interested in “the gender dynamic of the chessboard,” her son said, and wrote a playfully titled article, “Sex Change on the Board,” only to find that no one wanted to publish it. Marilyn Yalom, who wrote histories of the wife, the female breast and the chess queen, dies at 87 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Materialism vs. idealism is an ancient debate, in the academy and at the chessboard. With knockout, Alexander Grischuk eyes slot in 2020 chess world title hunt 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z The Latin American chessboard became especially kinetic, as an American military man might say, in the past four weeks. What Do Lula’s Release and Morales’s Ouster Signal for Latin America? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Trump is not playing a zero-sum game, a chessboard called economic nationalism, with China. Trump will win again, easily: Liberals simply don't understand what he represents 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z For Lazarevich’s disappearance is just one plotline in a larger story about feuding oligarchs who view the UK’s media, parliament and courts as pawns on a giant chessboard. Oligarchs at war in London over mystery of missing Siberian 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z But the U.S. military still can’t seem to break through on the most important battlefield of all — the chessboard. Tough battle: Close but no medal for U.S. at NATO chess tilt 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z “Again, Ukraine is just a pawn on the chessboard.” What Ukrainian-Americans Are Saying About the Ukraine Scandal 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Doolittle closing would allow the Nationals, from the sixth inning on, to use Hunter Strickland as a stopgap, Wander Suero and Fernando Rodney as setup men and deploy Hudson as a queen on the chessboard. How Daniel Hudson became the Nationals’ most important reliever - The Washington Post 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z U.S. moves on this chessboard should be guided by clear planning, not whim. Trump’s Twitter diplomacy with China is no substitute for clear policy - The Washington Post 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “When you change the chessboard, you are effectively permanently changing the conditions under which you’re operating,” Stephens said. New US-led patrols in Persian Gulf raise stakes with Iran 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z One fan joked the diamond looked like a chessboard. Analysis | MLB wanted to make baseball fun with Players’ Weekend jerseys. It backfired. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Perhaps concerns are overblown, and the spawn rate reduction will serve its purpose by keeping the mechs out of final circles and off the strategic chessboard. Fortnite’s next tournament will also be its most controversial, thanks to mech suits 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z His other luxury properties were also known to brim with the likes of nude paintings and human-sized chessboards. Bill Clinton painting in Jeffrey Epstein's home a 'surprise' to woman who painted president wearing blue dress 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z She occasionally sells curios to make ends meet, and she fashioned Sarah’s first chessboard out of discarded soapstone from nearby stalls. This young Kenyan chess champion wants to take her moves abroad. The bureaucracy is keeping her in check. 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Reports compiled by New York magazine suggest a house filled with oddities including a life-like human doll dangling from a chandelier and a human-sized chessboard with scantily clad figurines modeled after his employees. Jeffrey Epstein wants out of jail before trial, offers to ground jet, hire security 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z The health and welfare of Californians and the undocumented immigrants who flocked to that state are now under direct attack by a state bureaucracy that sees people only as disposable pieces on a political chessboard. California’s free health care for illegal immigrants is an unsustainable financial burden 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z “Let’s stay calm and look at the chessboard here.” U.S.-Mexico talks to continue as time runs short for tariff deal 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z An incandescent attacker, the Latvian great often took huge risks at the chessboard and doesn’t seem the type to avoid the occasional loss. Magnus Carlsen’s hot chess play ranks with the game’s great streaks 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z When other kids broke the chessboard her grandmother made, she wasn’t distraught — she’d already mastered the game. This young Kenyan chess champion wants to take her moves abroad. The bureaucracy is keeping her in check. 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z One strategy is to bring a chessboard to a busy street and wait for someone to play with you. A Solution for Loneliness 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Competitors would play remotely by setting up their own individual chessboards and sharing their moves by mail. Meet the Brautigan Library’s most prolific contributor: Chemical engineer Albert Helzner, whose 16 submissions line the shelves 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z It had the power of the Soviet Union behind it, while the authoritarians were weak pawns on the chessboard of the Cold War. Opinion: The strongmen are back. And we have no idea how to confront them. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Half a century later, Kalbach surveys the destruction within the section of chessboard she shared with other farms near Dexter in southwestern Iowa. How America’s food giants swallowed the family farms 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “Pieces are going to get moved around the chessboard but nailing Gail down is where everything starts,” said one person familiar with the discussions. CBS News is pushing hard to make a new deal with morning host Gayle King 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Alexander Pichushkin, often called the “chessboard killer”, is serving a life sentence for 48 murders in a park in south-west Moscow. Russia's worst serial killer jailed for life 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Police reportedly found a chessboard in his apartment with numbers on 61 squares – which he said represented the people he killed. Samuel Little, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and other prolific serial killers throughout history 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Stores struggle to keep chessboards on their shelves. The Magnus Effect: Norway Falls Hard for Chess 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “I hope to be able to influence some of their decisions. But I’m not going to move pieces around the chessboard.” Trump’s Criticism of Architect of Bin Laden Raid Draws Fire 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The chessboard is a tiny diorama of buildings, rivers, mountains and threatening creatures, and keeping everyone alive requires total, intense concentration. The 11 best Nintendo Switch games of all time 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z A 19×19 Go board is much larger than an 8×8 chessboard, which makes it possible to have several battles raging in different parts of the board. Why data is the new oil: What we mean when we talk about “deep learning” 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z He may be the hardest grandmaster to surprise at the chessboard. U.S. great hope Fabiano Caruana preps for clash with Magnus Carlsen 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z But some of the best chessboard struggles don’t offer such a neat through-line. Operatic struggle offers chess on a grand scale 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z “When he returns, he’s still gonna be on the chessboard, but he’s no longer gonna control the players like he did before,” said Bill Lipton, the state director of the Working Families Party. The Insurgency Roared. But Andrew Cuomo Prevailed. 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Decades ago, the polar cap was a Cold War chessboard for dueling navies and submarine war games. Russia’s Suez Canal? Ships start plying a less-icy Arctic, thanks to climate change 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Such an effect is similar to switching the black and white squares of a chessboard, without changing the boundaries between the squares. Electric and magnetic domains inverted by a magnetic field 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z General manager Rob Pelinka tells us he has been “moving the chessboard around with all the different options.” Show-me time is just about to begin for Magic and the Lakers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z It is also emerging as a critical square on the east European chessboard in Vladimir Putin’s efforts to push back assertively against Nato expansion. Kaliningrad photos appear to show Russia upgrading nuclear weapons bunker 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z If you zoomed in to the Planck scale, an almost inconceivably small size of 10–35 meter, they thought you would see something like a chessboard. What Is Spacetime? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The most important thing for American negotiators to understand is that North Korea is a “revisionist state”—one that is deeply aggrieved by, and fundamentally opposed to, the current configuration of the international chessboard. With Kim Jong Un, There’s No ‘Win-Win’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z The detritus from all of his hobbies—the conga drum, the guitars, the model planes, the electronic chessboard—and all his books remain untouched. The Difficulty of Downsizing 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z He was seated at a chessboard, which he says he uses to freshen his mind and memory. Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘I’m good’ but ‘not great yet’ 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The image has shades of Missy Elliot, TLC, Max Headroom and a chessboard. Thoroughbreds prep and Cardi B's shades: fashion lessons from 2018's pop culture 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z For one thing, the grid lines of a chessboard space would privilege some directions over others, creating asymmetries that contradict the special theory of relativity. What Is Spacetime? 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z For the Saudis and their allies, sponsoring Syrian rebels was a golden chance to topple Assad, push Syria onto the Sunni side of the chessboard and isolate Iran. Kidnapped Royalty Become Pawns in Iran’s Deadly Plot 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z A chessboard once easy to read could now outwit a grandmaster of global geopolitics. Moscow mired in Syria as Putin’s gameplan risks a deadly ending 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z “We want to gain ground in the key markets this year. The German market is the center of the chessboard.” Cyber VC firm backed by ex-intelligence chiefs plans European deals 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z “It’s a three-dimensional chessboard: ‘If they go here, you’ll do this.’ From 'Black Panther' to 'Ready Player One': Hollywood places big bets on spring as the new launching point for blockbuster titles 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z I agree with the substance of the Dec. 29 editorial “The tilted Saudi chessboard” that letting Saudi Arabia host a world chess tournament was a mistake. Opinion | Saudi Arabia is playing games with visas — and so is the United States 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z They’re drawings of chessboards with the pieces set up in different configurations, and the player studies the board and decides what will happen next if the pieces are moved in various ways. Decatur school’s chess club making all the right moves 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Trump World isn’t the only piece on the chessboard pressuring the special counsel. Scope of Mueller's probe worries Team Trump and its allies 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “We want to gain ground in the key markets this year. The German market is the center of the chessboard.” Cyber VC firm backed by ex-intelligence chiefs plans European deals 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He took up wrestling in junior high and posed for a photo in his wrestling singlet while staring at a chessboard, mimicking Rodin’s The Thinker. Puyallup Green Beret killed in Niger once was a chess whiz and stock trader 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z The floor is a chessboard of black and white marble. A Rodin Hiding in Plain Sight in a New Jersey Suburb 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “Many people think that history unfolds on a blank chessboard and that the environment is not a factor, but of course it is,” says Ludlow. Volcanoes may have triggered riots in ancient Egypt 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The North Korean chessboard: What next for the main players? Has the U.S. actually succeeded with North Korea? A top admiral says so. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z We are strictly looking at the geopolitical chessboard for the subject of this article. CROSSTALK: Trump Putin Reagan Gorbachev 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z In one of them, Bryan is a sixth-grader, smiling as he sits at a chessboard. Puyallup Green Beret killed in Niger once was a chess whiz and stock trader 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z In fact, Russia is using North Korea as a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard, keeping the U.S. occupied militarily. Under the radar, Russia plays a double game in tense Korean crisis 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z It seems the only place to avoid Wesley So would be the other side of a chessboard. U.S. chess champion is now ranked No. 2 in the world. Opponents fear he’s still getting better. 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z It didn’t take long for these two Washington insiders to let the White House know they weren’t happy with Flynn, and his days of pushing pieces around the chessboard were soon over. Was Michael Flynn a Russian agent of influence? A modest proposal for how that could have gone down 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Downtown Springfield Inc. is also proposing adding things like chessboards and pingpong tables. Plans in place to spruce up Old State Capitol 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Every afternoon GM Scoe set up a folding table on Bourbon with two chessboards and a blitz clock. Wandering New Orleans After Seeing It From the Stage 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z “State attorneys general are now permanent pieces on the chessboard of national policy development and implementation,” Mr. Jankowski said. How Attorneys General Became Democrats’ Bulwark Against Trump 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z He was, as his visitor to the Hermitage noted, as at home with a chessboard as he was with charging blindly forward. Our Populist Prologue 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The result is a controlled version of chaos on the chessboard, and it provides an interesting challenge for new and old chess players. Really Bad Chess: An app that’s a twist on an old game 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Granted, our generals have demonstrated an impressive aptitude for moving pieces around on a dauntingly complex military chessboard. Donald Trump’s swamp of war: What does he know that career military officers don’t? 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “Both Turkey and Russia are posturing for position on the Syria chessboard,” said Nicholas A. Heras, a Middle East researcher at the Center for a New American Security, a think tank in Washington. Russia, Turkey expand military operations in Syria during Trump's transition to power 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z His meaty paws seem to be everywhere, moving pawns around the chessboard of America’s worst-ever election, and his manly visage lies behind every unlikely plot twist. Pwned by Putin: How the Russian despot ruthlessly trolled our so-called democracy 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z The two are attended to by a waiter whom the Count christened “the Bishop,” due to his resemblance to the chessboard piece. A life lived fully in the confines of one Moscow hotel room 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z Assad’s allies Russia and Iran also appear to be hoping to rearrange the chessboard by improving ties between Syria and Turkey, long one of the strongest supporters of the anti-Assad rebels. Stalled talks, rising violence jeopardize UN Syria mediation 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z The July 15 coup attempt rearranged Turkey’s political chessboard, and placed Erdogan in an unspoken coalition with officers like Aydin who faced controversy in the past. Inside the Turkish Military's Civil War 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Their rulers treated the rest of the planet — the Third World — as a chessboard across which they moved their proxy armies and onto which they sometimes targeted their missiles. Enemies of my enemy may be war criminals: What does it mean when war hawks say “Never Trump”? 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Likening them to the chessboard’s lowliest piece, however, is slightly misleading. Seek, but shall ye find? 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z This film is one piece on a giant chessboard that Warner Bros. is setting up for its integrated DC movie universe. 'Suicide Squad' director David Ayer on unleashing his movie into the 'Roman arena' of fandom 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Instead, try reversing two full ranks of queens on a chessboard without losing a piece. The Importance of Recreational Math 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Over the decades, the canal made Panama, with few natural resources, a key square on the economic chessboard. With expansion, Panama Canal makes a troubled bet on its future 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z If that meant seeing Butts as little more than a pawn on a chessboard, so be it. Tom Cotton loses sight of what public service is all about 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z On a spiritual level, it seems distasteful to imagine a living person as a piece being moved around on a narrative chessboard, his every move calculated to advance a maximally entertaining story line. Is Everything Wrestling? 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z What is needed is a new piece on the chessboard: an American Foreign Legion. We need an American Foreign Legion 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Sade demurred from commenting on the rumor, saying he was “far removed from the world of private equity, where they move large pieces around on the chessboard.” General Mills Adds Kite Hill to Food Start-Up Investments 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Even the St. Louis Cardinals had a chessboard installed in their locker room, just last week: the team’s manager, Mike Matheny, loves the game, and his players are learning. A Chess Renaissance in the Midwest 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Royal sometimes gets restless in his classes, but can sit for hours at a time over a chessboard, his mother said. The Littlest Chess Champions 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z The two then sat down across a chessboard from one another. ‘The Dark Horse’ chess film from New Zealand shines light on mental illness of Genesis Potini 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Gen's mentoring style is to teach the chessboard as a metaphor for a land protected, with the idea that a kid thinking many moves ahead in a game will do so in making a life. 'Dark Horse' pulls away with its sensitive portrayal of poverty and mental illness 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “I saw it like a chessboard. If I made this move, I’d get here. It gave me a sense of security. I was a planner.” Look Closely Before Leaping From a Steady but Unfulfilling Job 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Or in football, which is a violent, chaotic chessboard, often beyond the control of even the most gilded quarterback arm. Why the Cavaliers Fired David Blatt 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z He’s not a chess piece as much as he’s Belichick’s chessboard. Broncos advance, will face Patriots in AFC title game 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z There goes the 21st-century British rock star: wildly ambitious, monstrously successful, square as a chessboard. Chris Martin: the rock god who thrives in the face of critical sneers | Observer profile 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z There are footballs, golf balls, softballs, chessboards, Legos–everything a curious kid could dream of–covering our office space. 30 CEOs Reveal Their Daily Habits for Success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z China recognizes that the Middle East occupies only a few squares on the global chessboard. On Syria, the U.S. should take cues from Beijing, not Moscow 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Beginning in March 2014 with his seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been deftly moving his military forces around the global chessboard, raising alarms inside the Pentagon. A Resurgent Russia Is Active In Syria and Beyond 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Now with Russia launching an air campaign against Mr Assad's opponents in Syria, and Iran reportedly sending hundreds of combat troops to join assaults on rebel-held areas, the political chessboard has been transformed. Iran now seen as part of solution to Syria conflict - BBC News 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Maybe changing the government is –closing agencies, consolidating programs, moving the pieces around on the chessboard. Too Big a Price to Pay 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z “These days, the war is happening on a kind of political chessboard,” said Mr. Sovyak, a metallurgist. Sounds of War Recede to Background in an Eastern Ukraine City 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Still, the movie serves as an excellent excuse to review some of Lombardy’s best efforts at the chessboard. DAVID R. SANDS: Bobby Fischer’s priestly second shines in new biopic 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z “The confirmation of the far right position on the Swiss political chessboard confirms fears that long-term growth could be affected by isolationist policies in the coming years,” said Julien Manceaux, senior economist at ING. Swiss Rightward Swing Could Strain EU Relations 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Hakeem and Jamal’s relationship is one of my favorite things about Empire, so it bums me out whenever they’re pitted against each other and made to clash like pawns on Lucious and Cookie’s giant chessboard. The Post-Empire Literary Society, Season 2, Episode 4: Poor Yorick 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Now mutilate the chessboard by cutting off two squares at diagonally opposite corners of the board, as below, and lose one of the dominoes. Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a maths jammer? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nine division winners will compete for the right to pick one envelope from 64 placed on a giant chessboard. Las Vegas gambit aims to transform chess into high-stakes global event 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z This is not some super power chessboard contest.” Bashar al-Assad: failure to beat Isis will 'destroy Middle East' 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z The alternating colors on chessboards should be muted—“soft to the eye, not glaring or highly reflective, as players study the board for hours at a time,” said Mr. Seirawan. Winning Strategies for Buying a Chess Set 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Information is short-lived and contradictory, turning Europe into a confusing chessboard for asylum seekers trying to plot their next move. In Serbia, migrants are in limbo as they await word of next open border 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z You may be familiar with the mutilated chessboard puzzle. Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a maths jammer? 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z The winner will get to choose one envelope from 64 placed on squares of a giant chessboard. Las Vegas gambit aims to transform chess into high-stakes global event 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Our base perceives us as looking at a chessboard and thinking, ‘Oh, 10 moves down, we’re going to lose.’ After Boehner, conservatives must answer crucial question: Who’s next? 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z But at the chessboard, his game moved grandmasters to tears. Tobey Maguire moves through chess king Bobby Fischer's checkered life in 'Pawn Sacrifice' 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z For clarification: an infinitely large chessboard is a chessboard that goes on forever an all directions, and the coin lands on one of its faces. Can you solve it? Professor Povey's perplexing problem 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Both attitudes presume that the contest of ideologies is a game, but the first one regards it as sport, while the second is more akin to brooding over a chessboard. Cold-War Bromance 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z "Looking Glass describes someone walking up a zigzag path and looking down on a chessboard," he said. Alice in Wonderland: Where inspired Lewis Carroll's classic? - BBC News 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z In chess, when your position is hopeless, one solution is to knock over the chessboard. An Empire Strikes Back: Germany and the Greek Crisis 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z A charismatic, passionate figure at the chessboard and away from it, Mr. Browne won six U.S. Walter S. Browne, charismatic chess champion, dies at 66 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The coin and the chessboard A coin of diameter 1 is thrown on an infinitely large chessboard with squares of side 2. Can you solve it? Professor Povey's perplexing problem 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z Restaurants, bookstores, cafés—on a grander scale railway stations, on a lesser one chessboards near park benches—are the sinews of civil society. When a Bookstore Closes, an Argument Ends 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z He created a camp library in two trailers with donated books and computers and a huge chessboard, putting students in charge. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Most young players are focused on the quickest and most brilliant path to checkmate, but if you play the game long enough, you start to celebrate the passing of the seasons on the chessboard. DAVID R. SANDS: China rules, young Americans shine in world team chess battle 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z "The chessboard keeps wanting to be reset, but at the same time the business is increasingly threatened by rapid growth of Internet video." Cable TV industry goes from high to low in a year Many in boxing have watched Haymon carefully maneuver chess pieces, one methodical step at a time, most believing his grand plan is to upend the chessboard entirely. Boxing’s man of mystery 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The deal basically allows Shell to overhaul its chessboard in the exploration project game, seeking those fields with the best potential and hiving off others while maintaining a strict financial discipline and generate shareholder value. Shell And BG Agree Mega Gas And Offshore Deal, New Round In Consolidation? 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z For the diplomats who tired of playing nuclear chess in the negotiation rooms, there’s a fine knee-high lawn chess set, on a badminton-court-size chessboard, with benches around it. The Beau Rivage Palace: Swiss Hotel Hosted Victor Hugo, Coco Chanel, and Negotiations with Iran 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The effect continues to multiply, until you reach the solution to the chessboard problem, 2^63, which would be the number of grains of rice on the last square. A Guide to Growth Hacking for Your Company 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Geopolitics and Security Geopolitically the world is still a chessboard of contending power rivalries. China's Leader Xi Jinping Takes Global Center Stage 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z The U.S. mostly views the troubled map stretching from Libya to Pakistan as a chessboard governed by sovereign borders that its foes ignore. The Long, Hard Slog Continues 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Obama will simply upend the legislative chessboard entirely, and assert unprecedented extensions of executive authority to ram through cherished goals, like the legalization of millions of illegal aliens. Obama Needs to Shake Up White House After Midterms, Oust Valerie Jarrett 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z I'm just a patzer, but I always enjoy looking at your chessboard illustration, trying to guess the next move. After Rocky Start, Grand Prix Finds a Favorite in the Lead 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z In that business, it’s not just that an app-rich, cloud-connected phone may be at one moment a chessboard, then an Internet browser. Cloud Computing Is Forcing a Reconsideration of Intellectual Property 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Imagine three white queens and five black queens on a 5 × 5 chessboard. Test Yourself 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Old-school, dead-tree and requiring an actual chessboard to play through the variations, the chess book would seem to be a dying relic in this digital age. SANDS: In a digital age, chess writers still go by the book 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z It led everyone, including U.S. officials, to overhaul perceptions and look at the chessboard anew. The ISIS 'gaffe' isn't quite what it's cracked up to be 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z “It’s become a global chessboard,” Mr. Thompson said. SABMiller’s Bid for Heineken Opens the Door to Possible Beer Industry Mergers 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z “Running the chessboard in Washington is very different from running the chessboard in Austin.” Tug of War Between Republicans Seeking Same Base Support 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Zhang Chunxian, the region's Communist Party boss, said poverty-stricken southern Xinjiang, the epicentre of this week's unrest, was the key to the "chessboard". Imam's killing in China may be aimed at making Muslim Uighurs choose sides 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In Louisiana and Mississippi, where the political chessboard tends to be a lot less threatening and at times entertaining, this election season is living up to expectations. Political fireworks in Louisiana, Mississippi 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Détente opened up both the Communist World and squares on the geopolitical chessboard. An Age Of Realism: Nixon, Kissinger, And The Limits Of Power 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z They saw how different patterns — gridded like a chessboard or centered like an asterisk — favored different journeys. Mass-transit magic: How America’s fourth-largest city can abandon its addiction to cars 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s time the chessboard metaphor was retired. News Analysis: A History Lesson That Needs Relearning 2014-03-02T03:06:21Z President Obama denied on Feb. 19 that it’s a piece on “some Cold War chessboard.” The New Great Game: Why Ukraine Matters to So Many Other Nations 2014-02-27T23:40:17Z Ukraine is not a square of a Cold War chessboard. Ukraine a pawn in Russia-EU game 2014-02-21T23:43:36Z Mr. Obama insisted this week that he does not see his differences with Mr. Putin “as some Cold War chessboard in which we’re in competition.” Amid Fence-Mending, Another U.S.-Russia Rift 2014-02-22T03:50:47Z "Our approach in the United States is not to see these as some Cold War chessboard in which we're in competition with Russia," Obama said. Obama cautious on Ukraine truce, urges move to unity government 2014-02-20T02:38:07Z That image of a chessboard — an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy — has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. News Analysis: A History Lesson That Needs Relearning 2014-03-02T03:06:21Z On the chessboard of geopolitics, then, Khobragade’s arrest may in the long term be insignificant. Will U.S - Indian Relations Ever Recover? 2014-01-14T05:35:27Z The Americans and their allies saw to that when they removed Iran's long-time enemy - the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq - from the strategic chessboard. Analysis: Iran deal limited but important 2013-11-24T13:25:36Z "Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity," he said in the message, which is sent to government and international institutions such as the United Nations. Pope defends immigrant rights, denounces 'slave labour' 2013-09-24T10:29:49Z Their levitation device looks something like a chessboard, with each penny-size square emitting its own sound. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-16T02:25:00Z Their levitation device looks something like a chessboard, with each penny-sized square emitting its own sound. Sound waves can be used to levitate and move objects, study says 2013-07-15T19:00:39Z I also made a paper chessboard, and killed time constructing chess problems. How I gave the Taliban the slip 2013-06-27T23:30:35Z In the technology industry, the chessboard continues to unfold and change. Corner Office: Jed Yueh: Jed Yueh of Delphix, on Learning to Manage Yourself 2013-06-27T16:12:39Z The battered chessboard stood neglected on the study table, until Subhash began to play against himself. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z “I bet they didn’t even look up from their chessboards.” Why the Prison at Guantánamo Bay Will Never Close 2013-05-30T10:50:24Z That’s pretty much what the chessboard looked like for Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke when he testified before Congress this morning. Bernanke’s Dilemma: No Good Moves Left 2013-05-22T17:28:18Z But the two men, both prolific builders, are putting aside their differences long enough to exchange properties and money on the real estate chessboard known as Manhattan. Related Companies May Swap Land for More in Hudson Yards 2013-05-18T02:20:26Z Jennifer Schuessler gives as an example of Mr. Chwe’s game theory application thinking in her New York Times review: Most game theory… treats players as equally “rational” parties sitting across a chessboard. Jane Austen, Game Theorist 2013-05-10T15:39:47Z But I’m not going to move pieces around the chessboard.” Admiral McRaven Charts a New Path for Special Operations Command 2013-05-02T00:51:26Z He seems always to be at least two moves ahead of everyone else on the Washington chessboard. Oscar Countdown: How the Legacy of Lincoln Still Influences Politics Today 2013-02-24T00:35:24Z But after more than a decade of rooking the world, finally realized he was down to one move on the chessboard – confessing. Lance Armstrong's options after Oprah: liar, denier, crier, pariah 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z On the second half of the chessboard not only has the cumulative effect of innovations become large, but each new iteration of innovation delivers a technological jolt as powerful as all previous rounds combined. Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down? 2013-01-10T16:11:29Z In October, the company made a deal to buy MetroPCS, the most desirable target left on the mobile chessboard. T-Mobile: Nearly Roadkill a Year Ago, Now a Roadrunner? 2012-12-13T15:29:32Z "When the men on the chessboard get up / And tell you where to go / And you've just had some kind of mushroom / And your mind is moving low / Go ask Alice, I think she'll know." Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs? 2012-08-20T08:40:39Z A flood of foreign money has turned the capital’s skyline into a chessboard of hotels: 400 have opened in the past ten years. Ghana and the Double-Edged Sword of Democracy 2012-08-13T05:35:32Z The Brotherhood, analysts say, is slowly and deliberately arranging Egypt’s political chessboard. Has Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Staged a Coup Against the Military? 2012-08-12T23:35:16Z With half the chessboard covered, the king is out only about 100 tonnes of rice. Innovation pessimism: Has the ideas machine broken down? 2013-01-10T16:11:29Z Sadly for former BlackBerry fans like yours truly – or for current ones who appreciate its core functionality – there aren't many moves left for RIM on the smartphone chessboard. Saving Private RIM 2012-08-06T09:49:00Z On the Friday train that carried the Johnsons, Hunter Brooks and Nevin Shetty, both 28, sat with a wooden chessboard balanced between them on their knees. Hamptons Party Starts While the Train Is on the Tracks 2012-07-14T15:13:16Z Perhaps the next logo on the Kings’ sweater should be a chessboard, featuring a pawn holding a hockey stick. Essay: N.H.L. Playoffs: Kings’ Rise Does Not Erase Their Outsiders’ Past 2012-05-29T18:27:59Z “We are now just a pawn on a national chessboard.” How Did Wisconsin Become the Most Politically Divisive Place in America? 2012-05-24T17:25:25Z Next, they imprinted a block of gold with a microscopic chessboard pattern of chemicals. Nanotechnology: A fab result 2012-05-24T15:10:30Z All four statelets are in effect Russian pawns on the chessboard of its “near abroad,” but they seem stuck in a quadruple stalemate. | Borderlines: Transnistrian Time-Slip 2012-05-23T02:39:43Z He orders his army to move across the chessboard of war. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z After many adventures they come together to the court with a chessboard, which is given up by King Wonder in exchange for the sword. The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story 2012-04-11T02:00:32.697Z Alas! henceforth only plaster hives upon chessboard pavements. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z Nor did Mr. Kaufman neglect the backs of buildings, as his chessboard, a three-story-high affair with movable pieces, boldly attests. Melvyn Kaufman, Developer Who Shaped Manhattan?s Streetscape, Dies at 87 2012-03-25T02:45:29Z Its floor is a red and white chessboard, and its roof is supported on a double row of white pillars. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z And the chessboard was now to both the universe. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The King moved his opponent's chessman back and told him to make another play; this angered the Earl; he overturned the chessboard, rose, and left the table. Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age 2012-02-23T03:00:38.817Z She found the cream-colored banquettes and chessboard floors uninspiring. In-N-Out vs. CaliBurger: Double-Double trouble in Shanghai 2012-02-11T02:27:00Z Director Georges Lavaudant moves the characters around like pieces on a chessboard. ‘Cherry Orchard’ Gets Arias, Foxtrots in New Paris Work: Review 2012-02-01T17:32:55Z The chessboard was spread open, and the chessmen ranged upon the board. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z Ruy Lopez followed the executioner, and the king resumed his seat, beckoning to one of his favorites to take his place at the chessboard. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z Its name derives from the old chequy, or chessboard, arms of the Earls of Warren, chequered in gold and blue. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z It is better to accommodate oneself to the good and the bad here below, for hereafter we can only enjoy the number of moves which destiny presents upon the chessboard of this terrestrial ball. The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam 2012-01-08T03:00:15.553Z Her velvet-muffled footsteps grew faintly audible as her heels advanced with a soft tick-tock across the black-and-white chessboard of the marble floor. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z According to the transcript, Govorukhin accepted, and then made a rambling speech in which he admitted their position "on the chessboard" is "difficult in the extreme." Russia: Putin Plots His Strategy Against Protesters 2011-12-09T08:20:00Z If you look like a chessboard, what is the pleasure in it? India Ink: Newswallah: Bollywood Edition 2011-11-26T06:35:16Z The inventor asked that a single grain of rice be placed on the first square of the chessboard. The Seduction Of The Exponential Curve 2011-11-17T22:32:25Z In the middle of the room was a table, upon which was placed a chessboard between a pair of tall wax candles. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:24.180Z Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z "We need to look at the chessboard," Putin said, "where all the moves are clear, both the white and the black." Russia: Putin Plots His Strategy Against Protesters 2011-12-09T08:20:00Z Satisfaction with our future is the satisfaction of the eighth square of the chessboard where we shall all be queens together, and it's all feasting and fun. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z The “back half of the chessboard” is a reference to the old story about the inventor of chess. The Seduction Of The Exponential Curve 2011-11-17T22:32:25Z A standard narrative has it that the Iraq war opened up a chessboard for the United States and Iran to tussle for power. If U.S. Leaves Vacuum in Iraq, Disliked Iran May Not Fill It 2011-10-08T17:08:01Z It was called men, and sometimes the chessboard is preceded by an owl, the phonetic sign of m, and followed by a zigzag line, the phonetic sign of n. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z At this rate makers of chessboards have strong claims to artistic merit! Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z He paused and indicated the thinned-out ranks of pawns on the chessboard. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z Matthew Yglesias waxes rhapsodic about being on the “back half of the chessboard” in terms of the exponential growth of computer technologies. The Seduction Of The Exponential Curve 2011-11-17T22:32:25Z The plan leaves the campaign chessboard largely untouched. Forget Taxes, Focus on Medicare to Cut Deficits: Ramesh Ponnuru 2011-09-27T00:22:01Z The three hieroglyphs charged in this cartouche make up the divine name of Thothmes, and consist of a solar disk, chessboard, and beetle. Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics 2011-10-19T02:00:21.933Z We inked out a chessboard on a plank. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z And they bring to the feast, instead of jello pudding, a chessboard, folk songs from home, a lesson on how to speak a poem in another language. The Bearable Closeness of Being: Why Cities Create Community 2011-08-30T15:15:00.207Z But the clarity of his style on the chessboard makes for a telling contrast with his life away from it. Chess: the genius of Bobby Fischer 2011-08-29T20:29:01Z Here’s Mr. Finkel: The 8 Queens Puzzle is a classic conundrum of the chess/logic/math variety: how do you place eight queens on a chessboard so that no two queens are attacking each other? Wordplay Blog: Numberplay: Avoiding Attack 2011-08-29T15:11:34Z For transit officials, the system turns into an elaborate chessboard. Mass Transit Shutdown for Irene Is Complex Job 2011-08-27T02:52:34Z “Women,” she muttered, “are only pawns on a man’s chessboard.” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Horn lanterns and the old spiked candlesticks lit up his evening hours, when the chessboard arrayed its clumsy men, carved out of walrus tusk, then commonly called whale's-bone. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z I shall, no doubt, forget how to play at chess; but what we have spoken together at the chessboard I can never forget. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z The Libyan leader took his time, finger to his forehead, as he contemplated his moves on the ornate wooden chessboard; the Russian was swifter and more casual. The Lede: Qaddafi's Latest Gambit, a Chess Match 2011-06-13T21:33:23Z At night Eliza Mitchell usually brought her sewing to the table, Judge Kent smoked in his easy chair, and Eglah arranged the chessboard at his elbow, or read aloud from some volume he had selected. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The next important move upon the political chessboard with reference to slavery preceded the adoption of the celebrated measures familiarly known by the above title, or as the “Omnibus Bill of 1850.” History of American Abolitionism 2011-03-28T02:00:23.663Z But the baron had an unpleasant trick of breaking the chessboard on his opponent's head, when he found himself checkmated; which somewhat marred said opponent's enjoyment of the game. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z You see, Alice, the chessboard is divided into sixty-four squares, red and white, and the white army tries to win and the red army tries to win. Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" 2011-03-28T02:00:20.647Z For nearly two weeks the entire country watched with panting interest these two generals play their advance-guards and reconnoitring parties against each other as though they were so many ivory figures upon a chessboard. Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z In the last few weeks, Van Gaal was moving players across the pitch like pawns on a chessboard. Bayern Munich 'keep calm and carry on' with lame duck Louis van Gaal 2011-03-07T17:05:57Z We are now in West Flanders, in a countryside of market gardens, where every inch of ground is closely tilled, and the fields are laid out like a chessboard. The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 2011-02-23T03:00:28.797Z It was just at this crisis that Bismarck was appointed prime minister of Prussia, and commenced his series of brilliant moves upon the European chessboard. A Short History of Germany 2011-02-14T03:00:40.360Z The portieres are black and red squares like a chessboard. Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" 2011-03-28T02:00:20.647Z Principles are things to stand on, not things to play with as with pawns on a chessboard. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z In such a way, at any rate, he could better have served his country than by being at that grave moment an impotent piece on the political chessboard. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z He made a mental chessboard of Mrs. King's premises, and the people who were to be in them, and found that he could not place the pieces to suit himself. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z “Are we not all like the pieces upon a chessboard?” he asked. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z "When one makes a bold move on the chessboard—the chessboard of life—there are often several motives," Garth replied. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z With such geopolitical calculations playing out across East Asia, the Chinese chessboard just got a lot more complicated. What Will China's Next Move on North Korea Be? 2010-11-24T10:10:00Z Sitting at a chessboard table in a plaza next to that project recently, Mr. Johnson said he was finally in a much better place. The Neediest Cases: After Trial and Error, an Aspiring Chef Seeks a Break 2010-11-20T02:17:00Z Gifted, charismatic and reckless, they burn with hubris, flout convention, seize championships and rouse fans. at the chessboard. Alex Higgins, Bombastic Snooker Champ, Dies at 61 2010-07-31T21:49:00Z The Chinese are playing on a different chessboard. China invests heavily in Brazil, elsewhere in pursuit of political heft 2010-07-26T04:00:00Z Appearing in a well-lighted room that appeared to be a library, with the added touch of a globe and a chessboard, Mr. Amiri looked well groomed. Iranian Scientist Reported Flying Home 2010-07-14T06:19:00Z For the time being, Jayhawk fans distract themselves from their worries by moving an endless assortment of colleges around a mental chessboard. With the Big 12 Collapsing, What Will Happen to Kansas? 2010-06-13T17:00:00Z Their enmity has turned the Defense Ministry into a chessboard, as each tries to block the promotions of the other's allies while backing their own men. Will Afghanistan's Military Ever Be Fit to Fight? 2010-06-09T21:00:00Z Climate and energy were agenda items to him, pieces on a legislative chessboard; he was only willing to play them in ways that enhanced Obama's larger objectives. A CEO's Playbook for the Climate War 2010-06-03T21:00:00Z Sixty-four is a perfect, serendipitous number: 64 squares on a chessboard, 64 crayons in the big box of Crayolas. How to Improve the N.C.A.A. Tournament 2010-04-01T23:44:00Z He tells the king that he has come to play a game of chess with him, and produces a chessboard of silver with pieces of gold studded with jewels. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Every Waac who goes to France is like the pawn who attains the top of the chessboard and is exchanged for a more valuable piece. The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France "And who," said Rollo, smiling for the first time, "may the Queen be upon this little family chessboard?" The Firebrand The divisions are laid out as regularly as the squares upon a chessboard, and all to be formed into a Charter of Compact. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Often, instead of learning my lesson, I covered the white squares of the chessboard on my little table with pen and ink pictures of myself, doing all kinds of courageous things. Reveries over Childhood and Youth The world's a chessboard, And we the merest pawns in fist of Fate. The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded The King—his bishops—the knights—all the world’s crazy chessboard neither mock nor judge thee. Rewards and Fairies Two women find themselves confronted across the chessboard and about to move the pieces in a terrible game in which each stakes her head, and each is foredoomed to lose. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty They sat hunched over a three-dimensional chessboard, studying the complex moves of their newest hobby. The Golden Skull A chessboard was between them, and their attention was fixed on the game. The Irish Fairy Book In that part of Warwickshire where Shakespeare was educated, and the neighbouring parts of Northamptonshire, the shepherds and other boys dig up the turf with their knives to represent a sort of imperfect chessboard. Folk-lore of Shakespeare One might have expected such dissimulation in a polished diplomat moving the strategic pieces of the chessboard of some European power, but here it seemed inconceivable. The Portal of Dreams We had a chessboard and men—a set of quoits, dominoes, and cards; and there was the highly intellectual game of “push pin” open to all comers. From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw Below, Rick Brant moved his king diagonally across the three-dimensional chessboard and said triumphantly, "Checkmate!" The Golden Skull As to the chessboards, they were formerly uncoloured, and it is not until the 13th century that we hear of checkered boards being used in Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" After this bit, psi faculties, including telempathy, have to be considered another weapons family in the Cold War ... a new set of pieces of the big chessboard. Telempathy Thereupon Miss Julia, looking through a transparent square in a glass chessboard into the bar, saw that the typical sot was certainly under the impression that he had an audience. When Ghost Meets Ghost He has gold and silver dishes, and chessboards and candle-sticks made of precious stones. In The Seven Woods Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age My dear Count, I fear you kept your nose too close to the chessboard yesterday afternoon. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire It was well known that he held a key position on the chessboard of politics. The Clean and Wholesome Land Plenty of books, TV, radio, or a chessboard. The Flying Stingaree The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of26 nature. Under the Maples The blocks were two inches square and there were eight each way; in fact, it was a copy of the chessboard her father had made. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic The Captain, with a glance of disapproval at the chessboard, strolled away as he had done before. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire This threat to detain newspaper representatives as supposedly important pieces on the diplomatic chessboard before war was declared brought a firm refusal from Mr. Gerard to yield to such pressure. The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources In its quiet, clean streets, laid out like a chessboard, walk the shaven monks and gowned scholars. Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan Life is a day's work, a struggle where the forces to be used and the forces to be overcome are much more vague and varied and intangible than are those of the chessboard. Under the Maples The chessboard stood prominently on the moss at the foot of the tree, and the frame, with its picture, hung from one branch. Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic The national chessboard is very confused in the White House. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 A convenient and simple method of demonstrating what happens under such circumstances is the method sometimes termed the "chessboard" method. Mendelism Third Edition The detective pointed meaningly at the chessboard, and Carmichael bent over it with an expectant face. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914 Now, there was my chessboard with my letters on it. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator They cross each other perpetually at right angles, like lines on a chessboard, and if you are walking diagonally across them the temptation is to a succession of knights' moves which end in wrong places. Highways and Byways in Surrey Now, tradition—on this point not trustworthy—says that the chessboard broke into the thirteen fragments shown in our illustration. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems Quiet and unassuming in manner, Ballance, who was a well-read man, always seemed fonder of his books and his chessboard than of public bustle; yet his loss to New Zealand political life was great. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Lloyd and I made a chessboard out of a carton. The Dope on Mars Suppose two men before a chessboard,—the one a novice, the other an expert player of the game. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It was thus they careered across the vast chessboard of the fenced back-blocks at dead of night. Stingaree If you succeed in constructing the chessboard, but do not record the arrangement, you will find it just as puzzling the next time you feel disposed to attack it. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems The first is the more dense; the trenches with their alleys of communication present at certain points the appearance of a wirework chessboard. World's War Events, Vol. I When I got back to my compartment, Lloyd had taken away the chessboard and all his buttons. The Dope on Mars A pawn on God's chessboard may take a knight, or give check to a king. John the Baptist Mr. Semple, what you are about to make is a new move on the chessboard. The Rapids In Diagram A is shown the puzzle in the form in which it may be presented on a portion of the chessboard with six knights. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems He replaced the pieces on the chessboard, and looked for the explanation of failure, but in vain. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 The ground was cris-crossed like a chessboard, the lines being a foot to two feet apart, and four to six inches wide, and several feet in depth. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan I made two modest moves on the chessboard of Fate yesterday, but they were so very modest and mysterious that I almost fear they were never noticed. A Cathedral Courtship And on one table stood a chessboard with chessmen carved out of moonstones. Honey-Bee 1911 In A we use counters; in B we can employ rooks on a corner of a chessboard. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems The nations of Europe were like so many pieces on a chessboard. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Then the carpet being spread, they brought great store of cards, dice, and chessboards. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I |
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