Coffee houses were a new institution in which men met together to talk, listen to poets and play games like chess and backgammon.
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The Department of Revenue Board of Tax Appeals in ruling against the Institute remarked that Go is fundamentally a recreational board game like chess.
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To rebrand poker, Alson and his colleagues are emphasizing the similarities between poker and other so-called mindsports like chess and bridge, which teach and reward strategic thinking.
Go is like chess in that it is very old.
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His anxiety has since mostly abated, but his sense of displacement has not: his musical worries are now more like chess moves than like agonized referendums on his life.
This is like playing chess with only two kings left on the board.
As Russell Glasser put it (paraphrasing), engaging in counter-apologetics is like playing Chess.
But it has been adopted by students who engage in intellectual pursuits like playing chess or reading history as they sip their pulque.
It's like playing chess and being black and always copying white's moves.
The key thing for us is like a chess game.
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Apparently some video game writers not only receive review copies of games, they receive a bunch of swag on the side - like expensive chess sets for instance.
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This is starting to seem less like a skillful game of chess and more like a madcap game of bughouse.
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That is like saying the chess board is too big because you have 8 rows wide to attack the king.
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Despite the issue feeling like an elaborate chess move, with players getting into their required places, there is a lot going on in this issue that is intriguing.
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In my conversations with Kasparov, chess felt like the embodiment of art, competition, resonant emotion, psychology--what a game!
Programming quickly became associated with a male-stereotyped activity like math or playing chess.
Looks like a game of chess has gone awry and a big jester--oh, 20 feet--is on its back thrown from the roof of Mardi Gras World.
She makes Quiche Lorraine, plays chess, and like me she loves to ski.
Because of the enormous stakes involved, the knockout rounds of the Champions League have started to unfold like a series of tactical chess matches between coaches intent on stifling their opponents.
Like a human, a chess computer would analyse the consequences of a move, but it would do better than even a grandmaster, who would be unlikely to see beyond eight moves ahead.
The project looks less like a marriage and more like a bad-tempered game of chess.
Like all smart kids, she plays chess and plays the piano and guitar.
Offense, defense and special teams took turns showing how SEC talent can leave you feeling like you just watched three-dimensional chess.
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This is a standard conversation, like the classic opening moves of a chess game, where what matters, much more than what one says (which is brief and obvious), is the tone in which one says it.
"It's a long way to go, and is like a combination of playing three-dimensional chess and bridge and trying to run a NASA space programme, all at the same time, " he added.
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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But as much as experts like to argue about tactics, women's soccer is not a chess match or a beauty contest.
Talking about the game with my son, Josh, an International Master, and later on with former world champion Gary Kasparov, whom I wrote about extensively, I began to understand the art of chess, or rather, I began to "feel it" like music.
Now this was a foolish, comical gaffe, though perhaps not a global crisis Beckett's comments were absurd, but the condemnations also got a little heated and growly, and after a while, the whole thing started to sound like an argument about Joss Whedon's movies taking place on a bus to chess camp.
Dr Irwing told The Times the differences "may go some way to explaining the greater numbers of men achieving distinctions of various kinds, such as chess grandmasters, Fields medallists for mathematics, Nobel prize-winners and the like".
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