chessboard

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• Who wins and loses is determined by an almost endless collection of factors, a movable chessboard around a basketball court, skill and intellect and physicality in new and unpredictable permutations.

• Last week, you navigated an 8-by-8 chessboard, each of whose squares had one piece.

• To do so, Washington would have to overcome the reflexive tendency of many of these — India, Pakistan, Russia, Iran — to see Afghanistan as a kind of geopolitical chessboard on which to enhance influence or checkmate another’s.

• “Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

• Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.

• But Indonesia, like most of its Asian neighbors, does not easily fit the stereotype of a piece on a strategic chessboard.

• While Saunders sat with his eyes on the chessboard, Eustace walked over to the window and examined the fastenings.

• Nothing disconcerted, her lover remained with her in the house, and they amused themselves with a pack of cards and a chessboard.

• The Annesley-Setons' first move on the social chessboard was to make use of a pawn or two in the shape of "society reporters."

• Won't Cresswell open those sleepy eyes of his when he sees this move of mine on the chessboard?

• Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.