Sentences with phrase «man at chess»

The audience was a lot smaller when Wolfgang von Kempelen unveiled his Mechanical Turk to The Empress Maria Theresia and her court in 1770, but they were no less surprised to witness a machine beat a man at chess.

Not exact matches

The man is a chess player and knows we have a manager who has built one of best PL teams ever so he would be foolish to not fear or dismiss at very least... and mourinho does nt strike me as a fool.
On a rainy afternoon at the Rikers Island Jail Complex in New York City this week, five men and one woman wearing tan uniforms sat in front of chess boards surrounded by an audience of correction officers and fellow inmates.
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.
Even when he was an old man, he could play chess blindfolded, at just below the Grand Master level.
If games are more your thing, the collection includes classic adventure games such as The Hobbit, a 1982 game for then - popular home computers such as the Commodore 64, and Akalabeth: World of Doom, a 1980 role - playing game for the Apple II; chess games such as Chess by Peter Jennings, considered one of the first commercial game programs ever, and the Sargon Chess program, first released in 1978 at a price of $ 895; and multiple versions of Pac -chess games such as Chess by Peter Jennings, considered one of the first commercial game programs ever, and the Sargon Chess program, first released in 1978 at a price of $ 895; and multiple versions of Pac -Chess by Peter Jennings, considered one of the first commercial game programs ever, and the Sargon Chess program, first released in 1978 at a price of $ 895; and multiple versions of Pac -Chess program, first released in 1978 at a price of $ 895; and multiple versions of Pac - Man.
Deep Blue beat us at chess, the robots have taken our money in poker, and our future overlords now own the top spot on Ms. Pac - Man.
A boyish - faced man with a passion for chess and a knack for eluding adversaries, Ablyazov is at the center of an asset hunt that has stretched from Almaty to Moscow to London and New York.
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