At the end of the 19th Century, Lord Curzon, the then British Viceroy of India, described Iran and its Arab neighbours as «
pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world».
If - these men will begin to speak with one another not as
pawns on a chessboard but as they themselves in the chamber of human reality, a tiny seed of change will have been started which could lead to a transformation of the whole situation.
Run deep, custom analysis on years of official NBA data for NBA Chess is a two - player strategy board game
played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8 × 8 grid.
These showdowns between teams of three take
place on a chessboard of sorts, with each space being worth varying amounts.
I will even say «cash is queen»
because on the chessboard the king is just a figurehead and the queen is the most valuable piece.
Why do corporate lawyers and lawyers for «people» move past each other in the legal system like bishops of different
colors on a chessboard?
Almost anything can come up, from finding the best arrangement of
rooks on a chessboard to the behaviour of imaginary curves near infinity.»
The isometric camera holds back and characters become pieces
on a chessboard for you to control.
For ten years his studies
focussed on chessboard squares, perfect mathematical calculations and flashes of intuition.
Structured by arranging his grandfather's pocket watch and a hand - cancelled postage
stamp on a chessboard, the composition emphasizes simple geometric shapes, a format common to the 20th century Cubist collage tradition.
However, even the most sophisticated robot can not match the skill and dexterity of a child in moving
pieces on the chessboard.
Most of us don't often think of Catholic priests as authorities on dating and relationships (in fact the popular belief is exactly the opposite), but the Chess is a two - player strategy board game
played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8 × 8 grid.
«The crystalline structure causes a layout of the atoms where the different elements alternate like the black and white
squares on a chessboard,» Matthias Bode explains.
«In the real world, all of the relevant information is not typically laid out neatly like pieces
on a chessboard,» Brown writes in an email.
I am almost a pawn
on a chessboard.»
It also why he wants each piece
on the chessboard to his specs, he knows how the pieces connect, how he can use them to not just attack a weakness, but create one.
The Arab Spring presents an opportunity not only to reset the pieces
on the chessboard, but to level the playing field entirely.
«We know we are all just pieces
on a chessboard to Andrew.
Despite these and other disadvantages, the Democrats are taking the first steps of putting the pieces
on the chessboard.
It's like they're pieces
on a chessboard and you always have to see it.
The queen is the most important piece
on the chessboard.
With the political and social chaos at a swift incline since the infamous augmentation incident, it would appear that a larger entity is at play
on the chessboard: the Illuminati.
The sculptures» arrangement on a gridded surface calls to mind pawns
on a chessboard, while their varying heights imply a nuclear family.
Instead of the slashing brush strokes and expressionist canvases of the»50s, Gray is showing a suite of Tworkov's works from the»70s, inspired by the geometric grids and calculated moves of the knight
on a chessboard.
On some chessboards they lead, on others they follow.
It appears to have worked as well for him in the legal world as
on the chessboard.
Although that does not mean that institutions are moving to the sidelines, it does suggest that they could be more focused on «moving pieces
on the chessboard» in order to improve strategic positioning within portfolios.