Sentence examples for master play from inspiring English sources

Copland ascended the stairs to Boulez's apartment, which occupied two rooms on the top floor of a building in the Marais, and heard the young master play parts of his intricately structured, outwardly violent Second Sonata.

Declining the gambit is almost never seen in master play because it promises White equality at best.

In master play, 99% of the games end in a draw if all the pawns are on one side of the board because the master will sacrifice a knight or bishop for one or two pawns and the opponent will not be able to force mate with a bishop or knight.

Again Flintoff has the Little Master playing and missing, with the batsman stuck on the crease.

There's a great deal of sense in this picture, the master playing sideman for the student.

"Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Yes!" she kept saying, as the enslaved Solomon Northup, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, gave a thrashing to an especially wicked master played by Paul Dano.

Even Jeremy Hunt, really not at all an "arty" culture secretary, recalled the formative experience of his music master playing him the whole thing when he was a kid.

Mr. Nigro (pronounced NIGH-grow) met Mr. Fischer at a chess exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library in 1951 in which Max Pavey, a master, played many challengers simultaneously.

The only way to nail the doomed couple is to play them the way a jazz master plays a tune: differently from day to day, from moment to moment.

The only way to nail the doomed couple is to play them the way a jazz master plays a tune, and Arianda and Rockwell enact Shepard's story with lionhearted fearlessness.

If you drop by, you'll get to hear something that is rarer than it ought to be: the beautiful sound of a clarinet, in the hands of a master, playing great jazz as if the instrument never went away.