chess-player

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. ...

The Volokh Conspiracy » Chess 2010

The life of a professional chess-player is mentally and physically challenging.

Vasily Smyslov: the master of incisive calculation 2010

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. ...

The Volokh Conspiracy » Chess 2010

The chess-player sat down before her, and they set the pieces, and he moved and she moved; but, every move he made she speedily countered, — And

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We always know that the sneaky young political chess-player is able to manipulate situations so as to get what he really wants the consul's chair; the splitting of the empire, but it's astonishing to me that Antony hasn't figured it out yet.

HBO's Rome S2 Ep 7 (and Showtime's The Tudors) 2007

At a Shalem-sponsored conference on democracy promotion in Prague this past June, Mr. Sharansky recalls dedicating his book to Garry Kasparov, the long-shot opposition candidate for Russian president in March elections: "To dissident Kasparov, from chess-player Sharansky."

Dissident 2007

A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly; and, so far, the concentrative chess-player will do very well at whist; while the rules of Hoyle (themselves based upon the mere mechanism of the game) are sufficiently and generally comprehensible.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue 2006

Schnurr, nor Carabossi, the guitarist, and Monsieur Pivier, the celebrated French chess-player, to point out the Boyar.

The Newcomes 2006