"The real work begins in November, and right now these opening moves are just pawns shifting on the chessboard," Mr. Kessler added.
Appearing in a well-lighted room that appeared to be a library, with the added touch of a globe and a chessboard, Mr. Amiri looked well groomed.
"Immediately stop all installation of computers and Internet apparatus in the public schools, and substitute chessboards," Mr. Wolfe, pictured, said last week at a conference sponsored by the Children's Scholarship Fund.
A chessboard is a battleground, but as Mrs Gresser pointed out, it is, at one level, a battle between the sexes, in which the female has an advantage.
There is talk now of a renewed effort to convene Syrian peace talks in Geneva, but the regional chessboard has shifted in Mr. Assad's favor.
Mr. Gent also outmaneuvered Mr. Esser on the chessboard of Europe's wireless industry, which is based on a handful of immensely valuable national licenses in each country.
For Turkish progressives who have supported some form of Kurdish autonomy for decades, it is bitterly ironic to see their old allies becoming pawns on Mr. Erdogan's chessboard as he seeks to fulfill his presidential ambitions.
The IEEE 802.16-MR network is an 11 × 11 chessboard topology as the one in Figure 4.
Behind the curtain, there were many forces at play: a more robust state budget; the biggest freshman class in years; a Republican base just small enough to require allegiances with Democrats or the Tea Party, depending on the issue; and the soon-to-be-revealed political aspirations of Mr. Perry, along with the chessboard of elected officials waiting for him to make his move.
On the chessboard, the main difference between his club and Mr. Fischer is talent.
As Mr. Kasparov stood and reached across the chessboard to shake the hand of Feng-Hsiung Hsu, the I.B.M. research scientist who moved the pieces on behalf of Deep Blue, the other members of the I.B.M. team, monitoring the game in an adjoining room, burst into applause.
