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Box office. $7.5 million [5] Big Game is a 2014 action - adventure film directed by Jalmari Helander and written by Helander and Petri Jokiranta. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, Ray Stevenson, Victor Garber, Mehmet Kurtulus, Ted Levine, Felicity Huffman, and Jim Broadbent. The film follows a 13-year-old boy named Oskari (Tommila) in ...
Indian Defence. In the game of chess, Indian Defence or Indian Game is a broad term for a group of openings characterised by the moves: They are all to varying degrees hypermodern defences, where Black invites White to establish an imposing presence in the centre with the plan of undermining and ultimately destroying it. Although the Indian ...
Chess rating system. A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
Chess. (musical) Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice. The story involves a politically driven, Cold War -era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls ...
Ludus latrunculorum, latrunculi, or simply latrones ("the game of brigands ", or "the game of soldiers" from latrunculus, diminutive of latro, mercenary or highwayman) was a two-player strategy board game played throughout the Roman Empire. It is said to resemble chess or draughts, as it is generally accepted to be a game of military tactics.
A chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a tournament in Moscow last week.. The incident happened after the boy hurried the artificial intelligence-powered ...
Chess annotation symbols. When annotating chess games, commentators frequently use widely recognized annotation symbols. Question marks and exclamation points that denote a move as bad or good are ubiquitous in chess literature. [ 1] Some publications intended for an international audience, such as the Chess Informant, have a wide range of ...
Arm's Length. Arm's Length are a Canadian emo band from Quinte West, Ontario. The group formed in 2018 with Allen Steinberg on guitar and vocals, and brothers Jeremy and Jeff Whyte on guitar and drums, respectively. Benjamin Greenblatt, originally from New Jersey, joined the band on bass in 2022, and former merch rep Marty Hacker-Mullen joined ...