Instead, politics is reduced to our current endless shadow play of feints and fake outrage.

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Well Putin and his team are infamous for their near-constant policy back and forth and their feints from one direction to another.

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His mistakes, his powers of recovery, his feints and adaptations to the changing political environment, all give him a larger-than-life political personality.

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Thus Deep Blue could recognize Kasparov's feints and, better, turn the tables on Kasparov by "setting him up" with feints of its own.

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Feints and stratagems are the stuff of chess.

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