Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard‚ a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world’s most popular games‚ played by millions of people worldwide at home‚ in clubs‚ online‚ by correspondence‚ and intournaments. Each player begins the game with 16 pieces: one king‚ one queen‚ two rooks‚ two knights‚ two bishops‚ and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently. Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent’s
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Black Chess Master Enters Hall of Fame Bobby Fischer‚ Anatoly Karpov‚ Garry Kasparov‚ Boris Spassky‚ Magnus Carlsen‚ Emanuel Lasker...what do these names have in common? They are all famed chess grandmasters. If the list continued for another 100 members. They would have something else in common: there would be no black members in that group. In fact‚ if the list were to go through the ten thousand or so grandmasters throughout history‚ there would be no black players on that list until Maurice
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song “Black or White.” Whereas the racism is defined as a superior behavior against other race-thus making it inferior‚ the singer refers to this term as “See‚ it’s not about races‚ just places‚ faces‚ where your blood comes from is where your space is.” Michael Jackson‚ one of the most influential artists in the music industry‚ calls for equality in how people view and behave towards each other. The question‚ which this master thesis investigates‚ does it matter if you’re black or white‚ is clearly
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practitioners of the Theater of the Absurd started in the fifties. In “The Black and White”‚ absurd‚ one of the many different aspects of his works‚ functions as a method of getting into the reality that Pinter has been concerned. In the skit‚ the settings are from sheer realistic life – the familiar scene of people’s daily life and the over-naturalistic dialogue between the characters. What we can read about in “The Black and White” is two ladies‚ simply known as First and Second‚ sitting down in a
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Black and White In 1997‚ Amanda Coyne’s “The Long Goodbye: Mother’s Day in Federal Prison”‚ was published by Harper’s. This was her first publication‚ and a moving one at that. She talks about her sister’s time in prison‚ and the things she observed during her visits to her. After reading this essay‚ it got me thinking about a deep and debatable idea that she seemed to believe. Is being a good or a bad person as simple as doing a good or bad thing or always making the right choices? Or is right
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The Symbolism of Chess It is known that the game of chess originated in India. It was passed on to the medieval West through the intermediary of the Persians and the Arabs‚ a fact to which we owe‚ for example‚ the expression "check-mate"‚ (German: Schachmatt) which is derived from the Persianshah: "king" and the Arabic mat: "he is dead". At the time of the Renaissance some of the rules of the game were changed: the “queen”and the two “bishops” were given a greater mobility‚
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A Game of Chess | Artist: Marcel Duchamp Written By: Chad Jordan | A simple yet complex description from the eyes of a college student newly educated on the arts. | | Marcel Duchamp is most renown for his work‚ Fountain (1917) was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz’s studio and Nude Descending a Staircase (1912) In the Duchamp’s painting A Game of Chess (1910)‚ he uses a variety of colors. He uses shades and tints of those colors vividly and with balance of the brightness and
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playing chess. Chess is an indoor and competitive game played between two players. It is being played in tournaments‚ online or at home. The origin of chess is traced to India of the 6th century during the Gupta Empire. The military had four divisions known as "infantry"‚ "cavalry"‚ "elephant" and "chariot". These names are represented in the chess game as: pawn‚ knight‚ bishop and the rook respectively. In the 9th century‚ the game was introduced to Western Europe and Russia.The chess board is
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Black and White Black and White is a novel written by Paul Volponi. The story is set in Queens‚ New York City. It was first published in 2005 and has won a large number of literary prizes. The main characters are Eddie and Marcus‚ star players of their high school basketball team. Eddie is white and Marcus is black. They have risen above the racial differences and are best friends. They think that nothing is going to stop them fulfilling their dream – getting a sports scholarship to a prestigious
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Black and white photography can be misunderstood in a modern artistic perspective. This type of photographic depiction is captivating and speaks through the image into the mind where it processes the lack of color by visualizing the depth and contrast vividly. An image that used in colorless photography was seen prior to the 20th century as the normal way to take pictures‚ but now we have color photography. However‚ photographers are still finding that black and white images are important to documentation
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