chess move


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the act of moving a chess piece

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Then, when I did make all the right chess moves on a good buck, I endured that painful, aforementioned miss.
"You need to be able to pull off that champion chess move while blood is pouring from your nose."
It's as though they wanted to beat business with its own methods in a single brilliant chess move in hopes of making a profit (payable in peanuts) afterward.
It might be replied that a proof, theory, or chess move could be beautiful in the way it fulfilled its function.(13) However, the situation is not like the dependent beauty of architecture or the beauty of a representational painting where a building is beautiful as a thing with a certain function or a painting is beautiful as a representation of something.
Powell science teacher and Chess Club founder Richard Gudonsky said his best chess move was to recruit Maurice Ashley, who at age 21 was the highestranked African-American player, to coach his inner city students.
and South Korea have to tread carefully with Kim's latest chess move. A few optimists in Washington may be heartened by this hint at rapprochement, but it's not time to consider letting up on sanctions.
With the eurozone teetering towards another bout of recession, Ebola spreading in Africa, and Putin planning his next chess move in Ukraine, EU leaders could be forgiven if they did not spend much time thinking about a British exit; but it is significant that so many figures in UK politics are thinking exactly about that.
Perhaps it was another chess move by the Lebanese Forces, but the message was unmistakable: The party would side with Hezbollah and Berri to torpedo the 1960 law, regardless of whether this might lead to a constitutional vacuum, and regardless of whether it helps ensure that March 14 will not win a majority in the next Parliament.
British Grandmaster and opening chess move expert John Emms presents Discovering Chess Openings: Building Opening Skills from Basic Principles, a solid guide written especially for intermediate to advanced chess players seeking to hone their skills and familiarize themselves with the basic principles underscoring the hundreds of different opening options.
The slowest ever timed competition chess move took two hours and twenty minutes.
In a chess move making sense in a mental space means for a chess move that there is a reason of a set of reasons which justifies that move.
The most striking effect was the geometrization of traffic: as one was moving through the field to examine the content of the various occupied squares, one was necessarily performing a chess move (straight, oblique, crooked).
Someone produced a challenging idea and placed it en prise like a chess move, tempting argument.