Sentence examples for subtle error from inspiring English sources

East overruffed with the ten, and returned the spade deuce, a subtle error.

The contract would have been doomed if West had played low; but the king was played, a subtle error.

East won the first trick with the jack, then made the subtle error of cashing the diamond king.

As Mr. Spagnoli lamented: "You can be going along blithely convinced that everything is wonderful and in the end have a complete failure because of some subtle error.

I would bet that a subtle error in the measured distance or time is more likely than that their ratio – the inferred speed – exceeds Einstein's speed limit.

Auken, who played a major role in Germany's world championship victory in Paris in November, demonstrated her brilliant play on the diagramed deal from the qualifying stage, taking advantage of a subtle error by a Dutch opponent.

But these measurements are fraught with uncertainties; subtle errors creep in and must be weeded out.

The publishers have lined up a panel of six mathematicians to pore through reams of proofs for subtle errors--an extremely labor-intensive process.

"I think the no-go theorems eventually will go," he says, adding that he believes Seljak and Hirata have themselves made subtle errors that invalidate their criticisms.

For software programs with extensive parallelized numerical calculations the debugging facilities of current integrated development environments are often not sufficient to tackle subtle errors.

On the down side, two executions of a program may link in different versions of code, which in some cases causes subtle errors, and may mystify end-users.