(n.) A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.
(n.) A species of brome grass (Bromus secalinus) which is a troublesome weed in wheat fields, and is often erroneously regarded as degenerate or changed wheat; it bears a very slight resemblance to oats, and if reaped and ground up with wheat, so as to be used for food, is said to produce narcotic effects; -- called also cheat and Willard's bromus.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Siri [the iPhone voice recognition assistant] reminds me of the woman who's told a dog plays chess and is asked, 'Isn't that amazing?'"
(2) His greatest passion on the trek up, apart from finding a 3G signal and playing rap music from a speaker on the back of his pack, was playing Tigers and Goats, a local version of chess, taking on all-comers – climbers, Sherpas, trekkers, random elderly porters passing through the lodges.
(3) Comparison of the amplitude-time parameters of the VEP and of treir relationship with the cell size and the chess pattern contrast has shown a characteristic feature of ME, i. e. an increased peak latency (PL) of the first negative deviation (H1 peak) of the VEP to reversion of the chess pattern with 90% contrast.
(4) Kasparov achieved international fame in 1985 when he became the world's youngest world chess champion at 22, beating Anatoly Karpov in Moscow.
(5) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(6) Go has trillions of possible moves; according to the British Go Association , at the opening of Chess there are 20 possible moves.
(7) For scientific practice it is necessary to find a way to monitor the internal environment during a chess game (catecholamines, lactate, glucose, fatty acids, cholesterol and others).
(8) The national team’s last success in a major event was as far back as 1997, and years of underperformance have sparked a growing debate on whether the English Chess Federation’s international budget should be skewed so much to the Euroteams and the world Olympiad to the detriment of over-50 senior events, where England is strong, or the European Club Cup, the chess version of the Champions League, in which two of the strongest 4NCL clubs, Guildford and Wood Green, never take part.
(9) Phasic and established visual evoked potentials (VEP) to homogeneous light field and chess patterns were studied in 25 patients (48 eyes) aged 1.5 months to 9 years with different stages of congenital glaucoma and in 114 age-matched healthy children.
(10) We have applied a new method for separating water and fat resonances in proton magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to human studies using a whole-body MR imaging system at 2.0 T. Chemical shift selective (CHESS) MR imaging provides either a water or fat image in a single experimental run within the same time needed for a conventional composite image.
(11) But when you're in the middle of 15 games of chess every day you're gonna," he laughs.
(12) Foxconn is proud of the fact that it provides a swimming pool and other facilities to its staff, as well as organising chess, calligraphy, mountain climbing and fishing.
(13) Kasparov, who is considered by some to have been the best player in chess history, retired from top-level professional play in 2005 to become a political activist.
(14) It has a chess club, cake sales, regular pub quiz nights and an internal puzzle newsletter called Kryptos.
(15) Snap – they're my photos 8 Extreme Mountain Unicycling This is wheely dangerous, said a spokesman … 9 How to win Chess in 4 moves Pawn movie 10 Dog Jumps Over A River Cute – you'll want to stream this video Source: Viral Video Chart .
(16) Computers have a huge in-built advantage as they can evaluate so many moves so quickly, and when asked how many moves ahead he thought, the pioneering 1920s chess theorist Richard Reti replied he was usually one move behind.
(17) We conclude, consistent with other neuropsychological evidence, that the right hemisphere is critical for chess skill.
(18) Trump stays vague on possible US strike on North Korea: 'It is a chess game' Read more Among such policies, he said, would be a popular replacement for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that would “guarantee” insurance coverage for those with pre-existing medical conditions – a promise seemingly at odds with his party’s current proposal.
(19) They are on the last paragraph, one hears #EUCO October 18, 2012 Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) Everybody in French briefing room is getting ready for #Hollande presser #euco October 18, 2012 My colleague David Batty suggests the EU needs to introduce chess match style time control to make decisions.
(20) He began to take part in the school's Duke of Edinburgh scheme, and joined a number of clubs, such as drama, chemistry and chess as well as the Scouts.
Gambit
Definition:
(n.) A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.
Example Sentences:
(1) Channing Tatum will play the superhero Gambit in a forthcoming spin-off movie from the X-Men series, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
(2) The gambit worked, and Miami made four straight NBA Finals appearances, winning championships in 2012 and 2013, James taking Finals MVP honors both times.
(3) By his own admission, Paul’s latest gambit will be short-lived.
(4) Russia's Syria gambit could be a game changer – but only if it hastens transition Read more “You all know well that in the territory of Syria and Iraq … a number of countries are carrying out bombing strikes, including the United States,” said Ivanov.
(5) We're dandy [Small Talk is dandy largely because he feels he has thought up an incredibly original and amusing opening gambit].
(6) Putin’s military gambit in Syria is the inverse of Obama’s.
(7) The plan will be regarded as an opening gambit from the broadcasters, with the main political parties also talking to other media organisations about potential leaders’ debate formats.
(8) His appeal to sectarianism as an electoral gambit morphed into something more dangerous.
(9) Six criticisms of the classification recently published (The Sicilian Gambit) are discussed in detail.
(10) With global markets gyrating, doubt hanging over the rescue deal and Greeks denouncing the gambit as a guarantee of their crisis-hit country achieving bankruptcy and default, Papandreou might be forgiven for feeling he has made a mistake.
(11) The Osborne-Darling gambit assumed that money given to banks was being "pumped into the economy" (as the BBC constantly put it) and would trickle down into recovery.
(12) Did you read today that France have closed the refugee camps?” was one chap’s gambit to me.
(13) They see the law as a gambit to shut clinics down, and in the course of this lawsuit, they have mustered some proof.
(14) People familiar with the US treasury department playbook, and the financial weaknesses of the Russian economy, say there are far more aggressive and dangerous gambits available as Washington seeks to retaliate against Moscow for its two-month assault on eastern Ukraine .
(15) "And he's got a really good heart … I think he'll be great for Gambit."
(16) With 10 minutes left Hamid had to make the save of the game, blocking Saborio's goal bound shot at point blank range after the ball had been nudged to the striker on the edge of the six yard box, then Kreis made his final gambit, bringing off Salcedo for Devon Sandoval, the team's leading scorer in the competition.
(17) Adass’s own pre-election gambit, setting out the sector’s stall and warning that it faces “make or break” choices in the next parliament, was an effective intervention of a kind that the association has in the past been reluctant to make lest it be seen to be political.
(18) It is feared that Britain’s opening gambit will fall short of the status quo – with conditions attached.
(19) It exists purely as a broadbrush gambit in the attritional process of freaking out his closest rivals: we picture Arsène Wenger coughing awkwardly on the Emirates bench and going for a bit of a walk along the touchline, Jose Mourinho discreetly wafting his coat-tails and muttering about last night's seafood risotto.
(20) But environmentalists believe that as a low opening gambit, it created a fait accompli by not pushing the politicians to be more ambitious.