Sentences with phrase «at a chess match»

Their response to the book seems to be similar to what happens when observers at a chess match become obsessed by the details of the hand - carved chess pieces instead of by the game.

Not exact matches

Chess players were given one of three cognitive enhancers (modafinil, methylphenidate, and caffeine) or placebo and matched in 15 - minute games against a computer program set at their level.
The two of them, sharing a debating stage, or glaring at one another across the aisle in the House of Commons, would be a perfect matched set — matter and anti-matter, ivory chess pieces vs. obsidian.
In between it offers, among other things, meditations on Spanish architecture and landscapes, an outdoor concert where the conductor is on an elevated platform in a shopping arcade and the musicians are on nearby balconies, a lavish state party thrown for the novelist, a verbal chess match at the party, a credit sequence 20 - odd minutes into the film, a concert inside a cathedral, extended lovemaking, a recitation of part of the novelist's book, an opera performed at a gigantic fish market, a university lecture on algae, another opera set (though not staged) in a Turkish bath, a TV interview, a meal prepared and eaten by the three lovers, a film screening, and a plane trying to extinguish a forest fire.
SEE THIS MOVIE IF: you are the type who likes to play six chess matches at a time OR your addiction to spy novels leans towards the most realistic of the genre, rather than the most action - packed
When the inspector shows up at his flat again, she finds Harry occupying himself with a chess board set up to re-create a famous Fischer - Spassky match.
The race become a strategic chess match when the two Corvettes made their fifth and final pit stops under caution at the 2 - hour, 48 - minute mark, ensuring that both cars could run to the finish without another stop.
Enjoy cuisine from food trucks such as Green House and City Street Grille, live music, family activities including caricatures, balloon animals and giant chess matches at 2121 Flora Street (across from the Belo Mansion).
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