chessboard

Who wins and loses is determined by an almost endless collection of factors, a movable chessboard around a basketball court, skill and intellect and physicality in new and unpredictable permutations.

Last week, you navigated an 8-by-8 chessboard, each of whose squares had one piece.

To do so, Washington would have to overcome the reflexive tendency of many of these — India, Pakistan, Russia, Iran — to see Afghanistan as a kind of geopolitical chessboard on which to enhance influence or checkmate another’s.

“Congo was clearly just a pawn in the global chessboard of West vs. East,” Holm says.

Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.

But Indonesia, like most of its Asian neighbors, does not easily fit the stereotype of a piece on a strategic chessboard.

While Saunders sat with his eyes on the chessboard, Eustace walked over to the window and examined the fastenings.

Nothing disconcerted, her lover remained with her in the house, and they amused themselves with a pack of cards and a chessboard.

The Annesley-Setons' first move on the social chessboard was to make use of a pawn or two in the shape of "society reporters."

Won't Cresswell open those sleepy eyes of his when he sees this move of mine on the chessboard?

Thus a chessboard was an ideograph, and stood for a gift, and sometimes a building.