The question that confronts you sitting at the chessboard is not: What are the rules here?. From Wordnik.com. [On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.)] Reference
A chessboard is a square, divided into 64 black and white squares. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares] Reference
Rice on a chessboard is a good way to explain the power of doubling. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Plant More Rice!] Reference
Our Losties were just another set of players on their giant chessboard aka The Island. From Wordnik.com. [Get Ready: Season 5 Finale Cast] Reference
We called the chessboard white, -- we call it black. ". From Wordnik.com. [Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion] Reference
What can be called a "chessboard" view of the world began to prevail. From Wordnik.com. [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference
Then he springs over the chessboard after the nine. From Wordnik.com. [Táin Bó Cúalnge. English] Reference
Panama is an interesting square on the world chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [Divorce, American Style] Reference
The engineer sat over his chessboard in deep concentration. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
It helped to be a strategic pawn on the cold-war chessboard. From Wordnik.com. ['More Bang For The Buck.'] Reference
The netting spread across her legs like a monotone chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [Lalla, Chuckachucka] Reference
He is motionless, his eyes staring vacantly on the chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
And it should view the world as a single geopolitical chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [Fixing Uncle Sam’s Image Problem] Reference
The Balkans have historically been a chessboard for outside powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Lessons Of Yugoslavia] Reference
The organizational chart at AOL was as busy as a chessboard last week. From Wordnik.com. [You've Got New Management] Reference
He looked around him, saw the engineer huddled against his chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
They were but pawns, the Balkan States on an international chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
As we hear from Matthew Chance, he charted his crimes on a chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2007] Reference
"Perot opens up the whole chessboard," says GOP consultant Paul Wilson. From Wordnik.com. [Perot's Patriot Games] Reference
With the metal chessboard before him, Carl idly arranged his ivory men. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The message was deafeningly clear: the KLA was a pawn on the chessboard of war. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
From the bottom drawer he pulled out a folded chessboard and a rectangular box. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Point] Reference
Every time he struck he attached a number and a coin to a square on a chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [From Russia, With Love] Reference
Him would I keep on the square next my own royal compartment on life's chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
When I talked about individuals earlier I was talking about pieces on this chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [The K-Factor] Reference
Ts ` ao Kung says it means "ground covered with a network of roads," like a chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
Mr. MILLER: Does she see life as a chessboard, anticipating what the next move is going be. From Wordnik.com. [Mideast Talks To Test Clinton's Negotiating Skills] Reference
The Soviets saw the map of Europe as a chessboard, and to some extent the Kremlin still does. From Wordnik.com. [Playing Games With Kosovo] Reference
Here's one with a chessboard on his back, and all his kings and queens and pawns slung round him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860] Reference
Bismarck has been pictured as sitting at the European chessboard pondering the moves necessary tor. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
The greatest joy was the third because his lady-love was queen of the chessboard whereof he was king. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The detective pointed meaningly at the chessboard, and Carmichael bent over it with an expectant face. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 28, 1914] Reference
The long vista of pavement became chequered like a chessboard, with patches of light from shop windows. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The buildings are distributed in chessboard fashion over a very large area, and form two distinct camps. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
That match, of course, will take place over a chessboard, a circumstance that would seem to favor Kasparov. From Wordnik.com. [Man Vs. Machine] Reference
Guerilla fighters soon realized that being pawns on this mad hatter's chessboard could be a profitable vocation. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
So they formed the "Tea Party," never suspecting for one second that they were merely pawns on a lady chessboard. From Wordnik.com. [Carol Hartsell: Welcome to the Tea Dance, Tea Doggers] Reference
Germany sat brooding over the chessboard of the world waiting for the opening which should assure a winning game. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
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