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...ancient beginnings, curling remains a game of rocks, ice, special brooms and strategy. The sport is played between two teams of four that slide 42-pound granite rocks down a 140-by-15 foot sheet of ice toward a target. “It is kind of like chess on ice,” Bronowski says. “You basically want your rock closest to the dot, but you have to think three or four rocks in advance because your rock can be knocked...
Commanders in urban environments can't survey the entire battlefield and instead see only bits and pieces; it's like playing chess while viewing only four squares on the board. This battlefield compression means that low-ranking corporals and sergeants--not colonels and captains--must often make life-and-death decisions. These choices come fast and furious when you're fighting downtown: 90% of the targets are less than 50 yards away and seen for only seconds. Killing innocent civilians--or your own men--is a risk that goes with the terrain. A quarter of all explosive rounds turn into...
...points totaling more than those of the next three teams together. Ferrari is so far ahead of nearest competitors, Williams and McLaren, that even they are getting bored with it. Interviewed after the Hungarian race, Ferrari's technical director Ross Brawn said, "Unfortunately, it's a bit like playing chess against yourself at the moment." He added, "They'll come back and beat us again, I'm sure." If the rest are to beat the Scuderia, they may have to wait until Schumacher retires. You could almost hear the cheers at Williams' and McLaren's headquarters last week when Schumacher...
Abba had it so much easier. The Swedish rock group (whose leaders, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, had been burned on Broadway once before, with their 1988 musical Chess) simply sat back and let a bunch of other folks take Abba's hit songs, graft them onto a flimsy story about a girl looking for her real dad on her wedding day and turn Mamma Mia! into a smash hit on Broadway--and just about everywhere else in the Western world...
...jealous, but when they play a prank on him that backfires, he winds up in possession of a secret message from an I.R.A. terrorist. The I.R.A. promptly whisks Ned away to a mysterious Scandinavian oubliette, where he clings to sanity only by studying literature and philosophy and playing chess...