This would go a long way in reassuring Warsaw that U.S. interests in Poland are long-term and diverse and that the United States does not only see Poland as a chess piece in a wider geopolitical game against Moscow.
In chess, as in heavyweight boxing, the people's champion is the contender who beat the previous champion.
In one experiment, undergraduates came up with nearly 25% more connections between different sports, such as chess and basketball, when sitting in a loft-like space than in a room with an 8-foot ceiling.
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There are many such paradoxes in chess, much as there are in good writing or in life itself.
The GOP is not quite in checkmate but it is on the horizon, as Republicans have entered into what chess masters call Zugzwang, a situation in which every move available to a player simply worsens his position.
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, known in the drugs underworld as "the chess player" for his ability to outwit opponents, was released from prison last year for good behaviour.
Known in the drugs underworld as "the chess player" for his ability to outwit opponents, Rodriguez Orejuela did not see his re-arrest coming, as authorities easily found him and he put up no resistance.
Well, it appears that our days as a species of lording supreme in the world of chess have pretty definitively come to an end.
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In two years as the parent of a competitive chess player, I can say without a doubt that I have never witnessed any untoward behavior by parents.
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For the first time on Facebook, Idle Worship provides players with synchronous play: the ability to interact with other players in real time, as opposed to the old chess-by-email systems employed by the majority of social games.
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Great chess players, as Mr Arthur Koestler explained in a scholarly article in the Sunday Times on July 2nd, are seldom nice or happy.
The appointment of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef as interior minister represents a significant move in the complex political chess game that is being played out in the Saudi royal family.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
Chess continues to crop up in books and movies as a metaphor for life.
The famous 1997 chess player, Deep Blue, hailed as a triumphant achievement in artificial intelligence, beat its opponents using brute force.
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The company previously held a similar contest for general Pokki apps, which resulted in apps such as Mixtape, a mix tape music listening app, a Chess app and Instagrille, an Instagram app.
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As Russell Glasser put it (paraphrasing), engaging in counter-apologetics is like playing Chess.
Almost as bad as noncomputable problems are intractable ones (such as determining whether there is a guaranteed winning strategy for an arbitrary chess position), which cannot be solved in a reasonable amount of time.
Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.
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