English grandmaster Jon Speelman brings his highly original games and concepts to your chessboard in this excellent book. |
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Within the squares of a chessboard, he has inscribed diverse phrases that can be recombined to form thirty-eight separate ballades. |
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Of all the pieces on a chessboard, the Knight is the most feared among beginners. |
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The chessboard was still sitting there from last night, the game left unfinished. |
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The women gather around the table on which the chessboard has been set up as two maids enter from the left with refreshments and a tea tray. |
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The rows are set so that anyone traversing them will have a much smoother run moving in straight lines, like a castle on a chessboard. |
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Outlined in the halo of street lamps, the guardsmen resembled pieces on a chessboard, or actors in a tableau vivant of war. |
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And he is consistently jiggling the chessboard slightly, so that the pieces are vibrating around. |
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He's no doubt sitting in a room somewhere, still with his pocket chessboard, going through chess games. |
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He imagined the gridiron was a chessboard and that he was playing against the other team's coaching staff. |
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He sat in the dark living room, doing nothing but staring at the chessboard on the coffee table. |
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Inside it was a large chessboard with multiple chess figures shaped like humans. |
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One can teach the strategy of chess while the other facilitates creating the chessboard and pieces. |
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His king offered him a reward, but instead of gold he asked for one grain of rice doubled for each successive square on a chessboard. |
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Ally's favorite photograph of the night was one of a chessboard that was perfectly set up, save for two pawns that had fallen over. |
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Great players have their own way of injecting life into any situation on the chessboard. |
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She may freely use emoticons in e-mail correspondence, but on the chessboard she is nothing short of macho. |
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Place the Queen on a chessboard and pass her over the entire sixty-four squares and back again to the point of beginning in fourteen moves. |
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Remember that even though your fantasy players seem like pawns on a chessboard, the game is played on the field. |
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The stereotypical embodiment of such games is the classic chessboard, in all its variations. |
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Elaborating on the Braille chessboard, he said, the black squares on the board were slightly more raised than the white ones. |
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The chessboard and its pieces come in an array of styles and materials, from plastic and vinyl to marble and oak. |
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This interdependence is mutually beneficial, so long as the energy relationship is that of a market, not a geopolitical chessboard. |
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The global stage resembles a chessboard in constant motion on which nation states and global institutions jockey for position. |
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Cut an 8x8 chessboard into two triangles and two quadrilaterals. |
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Marbled white Melanargia galathea Its striking wings with their black and white chequer give it the appearance of a miniature flying chessboard. |
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A master of defence, his relentless grinding down of opponents made him the Geoffrey Boycott of the chessboard. |
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The Conservative government has carved this country up like a chessboard, picking winners and losers based on what will get it the most votes. |
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The suspense is building again on the massive chessboard of the South Atlantic, which is living up to its reputation. |
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Internet play is available. An external chessboard can be connected via Bluetooth. |
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A day devoted to chess. Children will play on a giant chessboard as they are coached on the basics of this game of strategy. |
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The construction of the giant chessboard of mirrors did not make money and, on the contrary, resulted in a deficit. |
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Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac. |
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Quartz grains are generally unstrained, but prismatic and less common basal subgrains are present, giving a chessboard pattern of subgrains within some grains. |
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The pieces on the chessboard get removed, not the chess players. |
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What more can one do than point to a chessboard and explain the rules of the game, perhaps paying particular attention to the black king as one does so? |
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Just get away from the chessboard and any thoughts bringing you back to it, at least until your renewal is complete and you simply must play chess. |
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The sport was inspired by a French comic book called the Nikopol Trilogy in which men box on a chessboard floor. |
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Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. |
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Quebec is not a pawn on the Prime Minister's chessboard. |
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Morocco was proud to strive for the happiness of the populations imprisoned at Tindouf, unlike Algeria, which was trying to retain those populations by force, in order to use them as pawns on the political chessboard. |
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The Westphalian revolution is characterized by the establishment of a chessboard of nation-states that holds its own through a complex balance of powers. |
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And the initiative had the lasting effect of upsetting the Colombian political chessboard, dominated since 1957 by the two parties, Liberal and Conservative. |
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This consensus makes itself felt in spontaneous reaction throughout the world against whatever move on the chessboard of international politics is disapproved by that consensus. |
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Simply align 4 similar color pieces on the chessboard. |
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Indeed, I am afraid that if we do not go ahead with this solution, Europe will at some point cease to be a player on the international chessboard. |
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A chessboard is a battleground, but as Mrs Gresser pointed out, it is, at one level, a battle between the sexes, in which the female has an advantage. |
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La Chaux-de-Fonds, with its chessboard form townscape, almost unique in Switzerland, counts worldwide as the cradle of watchmaking and as Switzerland's art nouveau stronghold. |
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For 35 years, Nash painted a small range of elemental things – trees and tree trunks, knapped flints, birds' nests, doorways – regrouping them like pieces on a chessboard, or like soldiers on a battle plan. |
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Instead, the moment Nick Clegg realised things were changing, that he was suddenly in prime position on the chessboard and morphing fast from pawn into knight, was more a series of moments. |
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Traces of polychromy, probably more advanced during the Renaissance period, are also still visible, notably in a particularly outstanding chessboard pattern fresco that has avoided the layers of a rural 19th century. |
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It was impossible not to be wowed by the décor, which revolves around a huge black-and-white chessboard, a giant backdrop screen, a trompe-l'½il staircase and a stunning Art Deco chandelier. |
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Others were school-desks. A chessboard king eluding checkmate, Colonel Qaddafi has begun retracing the finale of Saddam Hussein, the first of the Arab world's tyrants to fall to regime change. |
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The goal is to have a Europe that counts for more and more on the international chessboard, a Europe that is the bringer of peace, as it has been within its own frontiers for the last fifty years. |
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Family-run businesses are also elements of stability with regards to large groups which move their pawns on the World chessboard without really thinking about the local effects of their decisions. |
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Depending on the application requirements there are a range of slotted holes and patterns e.g staggered or straight rows, herring bone and chessboard from which to select. |
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Sometimes, I have the impression that Cardinal Ouellet is placing his pawns on the chessboard in order look good in the eyes of Rome, while making sure the FSSP fails in Quebec City. |
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The First Vice President of the UIHJ insisted on the predominance of an independent status for the profession of enforcement agent on this new European chessboard. |
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