Sentence examples for blundered against from inspiring English sources

In the midst of hurly-burly tactics, Garry Kasparov blundered against a mating attack by Vladimir Kramnik in Game 10 of their Brain Games Network World Chess Championship in London yesterday.

The goalkeeper, who had blundered against Australia, looked a lot more confident here, not only stopping shots but safely claiming crosses, although it was Howard who was dealing with the heavier fire.

The Women's boards resolved themselves in our favour after Shen Yang blundered against Arakhamia-Grant in a messy time scramble and Houska just managed to save herself against Ding Yixin.

The downside, which effectively decided the Grand Tour in the very first round when Hikaru Nakamura blundered against Wesley So, is that there is much more data for the human brain to recall at the board, leading to mixing up variations or making moves in the wrong order.

For some, it is the sound and shapes under the neons of Beale Street, tourists all bourboned and blundered against the melody of yet another BB King cover.

I'd seen such burns before, of course, on innumerable occasions, the result of a house fire, smoking in bed, a child blundering against a stove, but these seemed odd, as if they'd been deliberately inflicted.

My first memories of daddy-longlegs, or crane flies, are from school: Redcar in the 60s, a gang of us huddled next to the brick wall of the playground, and several daddy-longlegs blundering against the wall.

Outside it, in the scene of his actual life, he moved with a growing sense of unreality and insuffciency, blundering against familiar prejudices and traditional points of view as an absent-minded man goes on bumping into the furniture of his room.

It still haunts many Argentina fans that the class of 2006 did not go further than the quarter-finals, with Pékerman accused of blundering against Germany, going against his principles and substituting his pass master Riquelme for the more defensive qualities of Cambiasso in the 80th minute and thus ceding the attacking initiative.

The world champion's smooth and seemingly inexorable progress received a jolt in Thursday's penultimate round when he blundered a bishop against Armenia's Levon Aronian and resigned at move 31.

This hat trick of ignominy in the National Hockey League was illuminated when Cairns blundered away Game 1 against the Tampa Bay Lightning.