Whether it's a piano or a chessboard or a joypad, that's your technology, and you express yourself through it.
Many a child has eyed an adult with suspicion — over the chessboard or at the mini-golf course (or, for devil-may-care parents, on the dueling field) — and accused, "Did you let me win?" Coaches and officials should be mindful not just of the rule's letter but its spirit, shaping the play to respond to all the kids involved.
Langdon Gilkey, who survived the camp and became a prominent theologian in his native America, said of Liddell: "Often in an evening I would see him bent over a chessboard or a model boat, or directing some sort of square dance – absorbed, weary and interested, pouring all of himself into this effort to capture the imagination of these penned-up youths.
Deep Blue could beat Kasparov at a game demanding cognitive strategies, but ask it to escape from a predator, find food or a mate, and negotiate the complex interactions of social life outside the chessboard or express emotion when it lost a game, and it couldn't even leave the launchpad.
When it came to housing your feet, everyone agreed: it was either the Air Max 90 or Air Max BW. "They were – and still are – the 'gabber shoe'," says Alberto. "Lots of people, including me, used to customise them with marker pens – painted chessboard patterns, or label logos, or tags, or with fluorescent laces".
Games exist within the magic circle, whatever defines the borders, whether it's a chessboard or the edges of your iPhone screen.
Computers cannot yet match the flexibility that a human being brings to the chessboard, or human powers of strategy, analogical reasoning & pattern recognition.
Whether tapping up an angry thunder with his rings on the chessboard, or haughty in the saddle, he's all man.
For 35 years, Nash painted a small range of elemental things – trees and tree trunks, knapped flints, birds' nests, doorways – regrouping them like pieces on a chessboard, or like soldiers on a battle plan.
Recreations with polyominoes include a wide variety of problems in combinatorial geometry, such as forming desired shapes and specified designs or covering a chessboard with polyominoes in accordance with prescribed conditions.
