Sentence examples for strategic chess from inspiring English sources

"I've never been able to play strategic chess," he said.

This season, Jenkins said, they were ready for the strategic chess match they encountered Monday night.

This game of grand strategic chess hasn't been grand or strategic, it's been self-defeating and inept.

He was admired as a boldly original theorist; in the forty-year strategic chess match between East and West, it sometimes seemed as if Marshall were playing a three-dimensional game.

The history of weaponry, from dead donkeys to poison gas to atomic bombs, presents just the opposite story to the usual advance of technology: not one of ever more brilliant moves in a game of strategic chess but one of ever more panicked attempts to knock over the chessboard & all the pieces on it.

Consider footsie is just a strategic chess move, not a cigar.

Stories abound of its strategic, chess-player maneuvering of prey and of its extraordinary stealth.

Played at its highest level, Scrabble is a strategic sibling of chess, backgammon and the Chinese game go.

This revealed not just a strategic truth about chess, but also a phenomenological truth, a truth about reality, that would otherwise have remained inaccessible.

The result, says Variety's Peter Debruge, "finally feels more like the blockbuster this top-earning franchise deserves … Despite the somewhat simple-minded source, the producers plot everything as if it were a strategic game of chess".

Memorylessness contrasts with the dynamics of strategic games like chess or Go, in which events early in a game constrain and drive later events.