chessboard

"Tell the King of Naples," said he sternly, "that it is not noon yet, and I don't yet see my chessboard clearly.

"The officer of the guard, then, with his chessboard?"

Out here it seemed as though the people of England must be shaped in the body like the kings and queens, knights and pawns of the chessboard, so strange were their differences, so marked and so implicitly believed in.

On the table between the two was a chessboard; the men were playing.

'I declare it's marked out just like a large chessboard!' Alice said at last.

The parlor was always bright and attractive, the chessboard ready, the piano in tune, plenty of gay gossip, and a nice little supper set forth in tempting style.

Your standing army is good, beyond a doubt,--a well-trained machine, an excellent plaything for a General to move across the chessboard. It might even win battles, and yet your standing army are mercenaries, and no great nation, from the days of Babylon, has resisted invasion or held an empire by her mercenaries."

He said "Good morning" with a slight gasp, remained very still for another minute and then pulled out of his pocket the travelling chessboard, and holding it in his hand, directed at me a glance of inquiry.

However, history tells us that Sheikh Mujib's authoritarianism pales in comparison to that of his daughter, who has turned a country, which is constitutionally called The People's Republic of Bangladesh, into her personal chessboard, aided by her pawns, her rooks, her knights and her bishops, called the Awami League and its cronies, whereas she obviously holds the position of both the queen and the king.

Visitors can pretend to be the main character 'Alice' and experience the rabbit hole, pool of tears, looking glass, mad tea party, chessboard theater, and more.

DEAR Editor, I am very far from being a mathematician, however, I am aware of the 'wheat and chessboard problem' which states that if you place one grain of wheat on the first square of the board, two on the next, and then continue doubling as you go, you would exceed the number of grains produced worldwide annually long before reaching the last square.

It seems that in the global economic game, the US throws the chessboard away when it loses, and uses the geopolitical muscle, without any problem, following the Groucho's Marx doctrine: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...