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...This chess opening can be learned in just minutes by players of all skill levels. Although is it the easiest of all chess openings to learn, it has proved to be completely valid, and very strong, in master level play....

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...Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one...

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...Chess is a board game for two players. It is played on a square board, made of 64 smaller squares, with eight squares on each side. Each player starts with sixteen pieces: eight pawns, two knights, two bishops, two rooks, one...

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...ly 20th century New York, players may raise the stakes during the game. There is an established repertoire of common tactics and occurrences. Like chess, backgammon has been studied with great interest by computer scientists. Owing to this research, backgammon software has been developed capable of beating world-class human players. ...

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...ss House. The land is full of mythological creatures and characters and nursery rhyme characters. Alice makes a guest appearance in a bizarre game of chess with Humpty Dumpty! A charming, witty story! (Summary by Aldark)...

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... crime detection as a hobby, because it provides intellectual challenges more satisfying even than playing twelve simultaneous boards against Russian chess champion Turgieff. His sidekick Joe is a fourteen year old Cockney boy, whom Crewe saved from a life of crime by hiring him as a messenger-boy and shadower. Other whodunit elements: clues galore, suspects in abundance, ...

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...ter : The swans look drunk on the fetid lake. Surprisingly : The crow is a beautiful black. Elegant woman : A bird high on her legs. Most powerful chess piece : You are a queen but only in the dark. Medicinal plant : You’re a flower but amongst weeds. Force that attracts food : The stomach’s gravitation pulls me to food....

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.....................................................33 Elegant woman.................................................................33 Most powerful chess piece........................................................33 Medicinal plant.................................................................33 Force that attracts food.................................................

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...r chin, turning her head to and fro gently. First he asked how they were sure. Then he asked Wyrren if she wanted to learn a new game. They played chess all morning and into the afternoon. By the third game Wyrren had memorized the rules. By the fifth, she’d taken a few of Sebastian’s pieces. She remembered her father returning and watching them play, how Sebastian had ...

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...The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that immortal line “Jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.” Lewis Carroll was th...

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...chers hold that when humans interact with Machine intelligences, it isn't chess or philosophy or any other sort of “higher learning” that they expec... ... see that these lives they are ruining are more than just pawns in a grand chess game - no, they are humans. As Neo would put it, they are sentient b...

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... with Zareh as my concierge. Some evenings, he and I would enjoy a game of chess. Zareh always bested me, but my skills improved with each match. ...

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..." - she summed flatly, as though she were reporting the outcome of an inordinately complex chess match. As though this "fact" had equal standing wi...

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...se—from the simplest checkers to the more detail- oriented, strategy-laden chess. He never cheated her again. And Therese never trusted anything anyon...

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... the future. Ambition moves them around like the places on a board game of chess-or draughts played by motorcycle taxi drivers when they wait-with the...

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...e about the men you work with,” Bruzzi said. “They are not just pawns to be traded like a chess game.” Brand didn’t know if that was really true, b...

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... o de laŝakproblemisto V . Marin, kun traduko E-a, Barcelona, 1913. — „ e Chess Review“, Manchester, 1907, enhavis specialanŝakfakon en E, red. de al...

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...GARDEN ................................................................................................................................ 150 Maelzel?s Chess-Player............................................................................................................................................ 158 THE POWER OF WORDS ....................................................

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............................................................... 150 Maelzel’s Chess-Player.................................................................. ...-burned little bricks, red, with black ends, so that the walls look like a chess-board upon a great scale. The gables are turned to the front, and the... ...e happiness than ever glowed in the rapt day-dreams of De Stael. Maelzel’s Chess-Player PERHAPS NO EXHIBITION of the kind has ever elicited so general... ...PS NO EXHIBITION of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel. Wherever seen it has been an object of intense cur... .... Assuming this hypothesis, it would be grossly absurd to compare with the Chess-Player, any similar thing of either modern or ancient days. Y et ther... ... machine such as we have described is altogether above comparison with the Chess- Player of Maelzel. By no means—it is altogether beneath it— that is ... ...say provided we assume(what should never for a moment be assumed) that the Chess-Player is a pure ma- 161 V olume Four chine, and performs its operat... ...ise than finite and determinate. But the case is widely different with the Chess-Player. With him there is no determinate progression. No one move in ... ...isposition at a different period. Let us place the first move in a game of chess, in juxta-position with the data of an algebraical question, and thei...

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...n November 4 (the day before Guy Fawkes Night),[2] uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. (From Wikipedia)...