The point is that we're playing complex, multidimensional chess, with, of course, peace as our ultimate goal, unlike our enemies.
The manager of this game of multidimensional chess is Pascal Lamy, a cerebral, ascetic Frenchman and former European trade commissioner who is now director general of the W.T.O.
Forever the master of multidimensional chess and mind games, Trump kept his first tweet low-key, wishing "all of the great people of Canada" and his "new found friend Justin Trudeau" a happy Canada day.
"The Sleepwalkers" is a tour de force of forensic historical analysis that delves deeply into the (innumerable) primary sources to construct a picture of almost overwhelming complexity in which lack of reliable information, misconceptions and corrosive distrust forced key actors into playing a kind of multidimensional chess while wearing blindfolds.
Finally we see the "multidimensional chess master" spoken about, of yore.
The skirmish over e-books is part of a larger multidimensional chess match being played among publishers, authors, agents and book retailers.
He enjoyed these conversations, adding that Brown sees the world differently than he does, but is "very thoughtful, and often engaging in multidimensional chess".
The regulatory side is multidimensional chess, with electrical shocks for the wrong move, says a Jakarta-based consultant to U.S. corporations.
Jeremy Corbyn has likened his frontbench reshuffle to "a multidimensional game of chess", speaking for the first time since completing the three-day reorganisation of his top team.
"This is simply too complex," the director general of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, said of the multidimensional game of chess that finally ended in stalemate.
