Sentences with phrase «at chess with»

«He made images of the gods and caused the people to play at chess with them.

Not exact matches

«It's a complicated chess game as with everything the Chinese do,» said Charles Wyplosz, a professor of international economics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

In his one year at Cal, Brown took a graduate - level education course and immersed himself in the Berkeley culture, playing chess with locals.

I get it, they're starting because of injuries and Grant is starting because Hoiberg is a bad coach who thinks he's playing some 3 dimensional chess with Dunn, but to let these guys play at the detriment of your future in Markkanen and possibly Dunn is just ridiculous.

So go fight with Spurs and Sunderland for Welback thats what you deserve playing chess at your age.

Jack was Fischer's principal chess teacher, and Fischer spent hours at the Collinses» Brooklyn home, playing endless games of chess with Jack and eating food prepared by Ethel.

No way I can compete with the cheerleaders, chess club, fill - in - the - blank club selling pizza, pop, and candy bars at the same time I'm serving lunch.

Good habits start young — and affordably — at any of our city's neighborhood library branches; one of our favorites is the gigantic Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, with plenty of sunny nooks, a welcoming children's section and even a spot for your kid to (ahem) school you at chess.

Not being a chess player, at all, I quickly picked up the moves and learned the basics with the beginner cards, while my boys rocked the game with more advanced cards.

One attempt even included a morning milling around a chess tournament at Whitney Young High School, making eye contact with teachery - looking types, when I mistakenly thought she'd suggested we meet there.

I am a chess master who works at ChatterBlock helping with content curation and customer support.

With 1 out of every 8 players at the tournament, Success Academy is leading the charge in diversifying scholastic chess in New York State.

The event apparently didn't leave one Nigel Lawson, also in attendance, in raptures; a fellow audience member told me he spotted the former chancellor playing a game of chess on his iPad at one point, more concerned with his opponent than his surroundings.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library at 1 Lafayette Square, downtown Buffalo, will continue to host monthly Chess Open Houses presented in partnership with Archangel 8 Chess Academy and U.S. Chess Federation Chess Coach and Tournament Director Michael McDuffie.

An inmate tied with a U.S. Chess Federation grandmaster at the first official tournament at New York City's Rikers Island Jail Complex, where the game is part of programming designed to educate and reduce idleness.

Go, a game that originated in China more than 2,500 years ago, is much more complicated than chess, with an order of magnitude more possible opening moves, study coauthor Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind said at a news conference on January 26 in London.

«It's a... a scalable approach to dealing with [complex information] that could quickly make a very good decision even better than people,» says Murray Campbell, a senior researcher at IBM in Armonk, New York, and one of the creators of the chess - besting AI, Deep Blue.

Another way to look at it, Billinge said, is by thinking of a chess game with kings, bishops, and knights filling the board so none can move.

The next step for the team will be partnering with researchers at the Cornell High Energy Synchronous Source (CHESS), Cornell University and the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory to develop standalone RAMS load frames.

You can get a myriad of pictures here - from your summer fun shoot at the grove, to a downtown-esque shoot with the bulls, or even play giant chess in front of Saint Anne's.

Everything that you expect to see visualized in «Solo,» based on your experience with previously stated «Star Wars» mythology, gets served up on a silver platter, from young Han Solo's first meeting with Chewbacca to Han winning the Millennium Falcon in a card game from its original owner, Lando Calrissian, and making the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs (that parsecs are a unit of distance, not time, is properly explained at last), to the fact that Wookiees hate to lose at three - dimensional chess and are strong enough to rip people's arms from their sockets.

This atmospheric thriller is average with the one of top chess touring masters becomes the prime suspect in a macabre, ritual murder at an international chees tournament.

Considered by many to be the greatest chess player to ever live, Bobby Fischer Against the World is the first and definitive documentary biography of the eccentric genius who rose from humble beginnings and captivated a world audience with his victory over Russia's Boris Spassky at the height of the Cold War.

When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect.

One is with Murray Campbell, the programmer of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat the reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov at the game.

It turns out that Yim Ho — the gifted director of Homecoming (1984), which I reviewed favorably when it showed at Facets Multimedia in late 1987 — started shooting King of Chess in Taipei around that time, from a script that he wrote with Tony Leung, one of his lead actors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XWBvl7GM6A Computer Chess has a fascinating concept to begin with, but it's in Andrew Bujalski's bold — albeit playful — experimentation at the soul...

Computer Chess has a fascinating concept to begin with, but it's in Andrew Bujalski «s bold — albeit playful — experimentation at the soul of the film that brings his vision to life.

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.

One night, Gen is inspired to pursue an opportunity to help with an informal chess club whose primary purpose is to keep at - risk youths off the street for a few hours.

Chess drama Queen Of Katwe added 1,190 screens to its roll out and jumped into the top 10 at seventh with $ 2.6 million.

So, despite being an ages - old vampire with oceans of wisdom at her disposal she gets girlishly excited to drive past Jack White's childhood home (kind of the unlikeliest Jack White fan ever), teases Adam about hanging out with Byron, and semi-cheats at chess, and gets to deliver, with utter drollery the classic line «Well, that was visual» after we've watched a body dissolve down to a bleached skeleton in a pit of acid.

«A Fork, A Spoon & A Knight» (13:14) profiles the real Robert Katende, with an interview of him (subtitled to clarify his accent), looks at his chess teaching program, and recreations of his childhood experiences.

Directed by Dick Powell in a deliberate (at times plodding) manner, the film offers its share war movie action but the focus is on the battle of wits, a kind of chess game played with torpedoes and depth charges, with the two captains attempting to outwit the other by anticipating one another's movies.

Given that films are text types in their own right, directors can often be seen as adding or discarding scenes and lines or incorporating their own devices into their films, such as Zeffirelli's use of music in his 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet or Brannagh's use of black and white as symbolism in his 1995 version of Othello (such as with Othello's mask in the beginning, and the chess pieces during Iago's soliloquy at the end of Act 1, Scene 3).

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

High quality early childhood experiences; summer school to address summer loss; parent education programs to build skills needed in school; parent housing vouchers to reduce mobility; after school programs such as sports, chess clubs, and robotics; a full array of AP courses; school counselors and school nurses at the ratios their professions recommend; professional development for teachers and establishment of school cultures of professionalism; pay for teachers at parity with what others at similar educational levels receive; and so forth.

A dedicated presence at the zoo, Amos McGee knows what each of his animal friends needs and makes sure he provides it, whether it's playing chess with an elephant or reading stories to an owl.

While Lawrence makes things with his hands in an after - school program at the Utopia Children's House in Harlem, readers are treated with glimpses of his 1930s neighborhood: street vendors hawking wares, men playing chess and checkers, mothers hurrying to work, and more.

With chess on an E-Ink Kindle, I can play chess on a bright sunny day at a park.

Listed in «Who's Who In America» for the past ten years, his career in the music business began as a singer / songwriter under production agreements with Chess Records in Chicago and both Capitol and Columbia Records in New York, and as a staff writer for Beechwood Music at 1650 Broadway.

With Active Content on an E-Ink Kindle, you can play chess or checkers with a friend at a park on a bright, sunny day, passing the Kindle back and foWith Active Content on an E-Ink Kindle, you can play chess or checkers with a friend at a park on a bright, sunny day, passing the Kindle back and fowith a friend at a park on a bright, sunny day, passing the Kindle back and forth.

As these analysts shift their ratings up, down, and back up again in a manic game of chess, anyone following along with their money at home is incurring commissions and taking the risk that the analyst is actually wrong.

* sports offered by the hotel: basketball (inclusive with all inclusive only); billards (at an extra cost); fitness room (inclusive with all inclusive only); mini soccer (inclusive with all inclusive only); giant chess (inclusive with all inclusive only); tennis (inclusive with all inclusive only), 2 courts, equipment (inclusive); volleyball (inclusive with all inclusive only) * daytime animation: regularly * evening animation * language: international

The property has a range of facilities and services to enhance your stay * Free access to a fully equipped gym * Snooker room * Reading room with free daily newspapers * Book swapping service * 24 hour reception * Games to play such as chess * Bar * Restaurant * Guest laundry * Car Park * Massage, reflexology, and beauty treatments carried out by fully trained practitioners at the hotel for your convenience.

The All Inclusive Program includes the following amenities: * All meals at any of the resort's restaurants * Unlimited domestic and premium beverages at any of the resort's restaurants, bars and swim up pool bar * In room fridge stocked with water, soft drinks, and beer * 24 hour snack station * All inclusive access to sister resorts: Alexandra Resort and, for adults, the adults - only Beach House (dinner reservations required) * Complimentary shuttle between all three resorts * Complimentary Wi - Fi throughout the resort * Free use of the resort's non-motorized watersports including water trampoline, snorkeling, kayaks, stand up paddle boards (SUPs), and sail boats * Free use of the resort amenities including 24 hour gym, beach tennis, volleyball, hammocks, giant chess board * Free use of Kid's Club * 15 % discount on regulary - priced spa treatments at Elevate Spa * Complimentary use of bicycles * All taxes and service charges Important Information: The All Inclusive Package must be purchased for entire stay for all guests in the room.

The all - inclusive plan at the Paradisus Punta Cana includes room accommodations as selected; unlimited meals and snacks; unlimited premium international and domestic alcoholic beverages; 24 - hour room service; in - room mini-bar with water, beer, and soft drinks (restocked once daily); all resort fitness and recreation facilities; non-motorized water sports including snorkeling, sailing, canoeing, waterbiking, windsurfing, supervised mini-club for kids 5 - 12 years old; evening activities including beach parties, live shows, theme parties and karaoke; all resort activities and entertainment including beach volley ball, archery, darts, giant chess, rifle - target shooting, table tennis, water aerobics, batting cage, bicycles, climbing wall, jogging trail and nature walks; also included are Merengue dance classes, horseback riding, 1 dive per person per week for certified divers, 1 round of golf per person per day at Cocotal Golf & Country Club (transportation to the course included until 3 pm).

Nearby Attractions: - 24 - hour guest assistance Activity desk Beach boutique and gift shopping Beach chair and umbrella rentals Bike rentals Boat and trailer parking Complimentary newspaper (Clubhouse) Complimentary wireless Internet Dining options: Southbeach at The Beach Club, Village Market and Grill, Gulfside Grill, Coffee and Cones Fitness center Five outdoor swimming pools and hot tubs Game room Grocery market with wine and beer selections Heated indoor swimming pool Life - size chess and checkers On - site expre

At the Imagina conference being held in Monaco, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's John Venables and Ron Festejo showed some new screens of an advanced build of the «game» that showed the Home Square newly revamped as an open - air outside locale, with tables scattered all about containing fully functional games like chess and checkers, as opposed to the previously shown indoor facility.