From an early age, he had been the chess-world equivalent of a hotel-room-destroying rock star.
In his 15 years as world champion, Garry Kasparov has cultivated a fearsome reputation as the chess-playing equivalent of a trash-talking basketball star.
Yet mostly they ran in different races and places, setting solo world records in a runners' equivalent of postal chess.
Loos aspired to an architectural equivalent of "playing chess on a three-dimensional board," creating a series of multilevel, interlocking chambers with enticing glimpses of adjacent spaces.
The locals tended to spend their time drinking, smoking, playing board games like chess or "Paduk" (the Korean equivalent of "Go").
At higher levels of appreciation, it involves an understanding of the complexity of the gardening process, equivalent to a chess game with nature, because the variables are so many.
"If you're a promising Go player in the west, and you get good quite quickly, there aren't any 9-dan [the highest rank of player, equivalent to a Chess grandmaster] professionals that you can learn from, or go and get taught by.
Putting together a convincing plot, dynamic characters with visual style proved to be the equivalent of attempting 3D chess.
Arnett was baffled when people insinuated that he was the art world's equivalent of the executives at Chess Records: white men who, in the nineteen-fifties, got rich by exploiting black songwriters.
The ferocious events of A Storm of Swords were the equivalent to the complete overturning of a chess board; the subsequent books involve a reassembling of the chess pieces into elaborate new configurations.
