She also uses chess pieces to help block scenes involving lots of characters.
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Within the bulding, the view shifts to a top-down view of a chessboard, with the chess pieces so far discovered alongside it.
Meanwhile, the chess pieces of politics, power, and warfare are all moved about by powers outside of the scope of any one man, or general, or king.
By controlling which pipe received light at any one time they were were able to make text and numbers glow through the sides of the bases of specially constructed chess pieces.
"It's one of those things where the players are definitely just chess pieces and the general managers are shuffling and moving them around and you don't have a say so you just worry about hockey, " Miller said.
As a fan, I could "see, " for example, that chess pieces are not static entities but rather their power is constantly evolving based upon where they are positioned on the board and how effectively they are functioning relative to other pieces and chunks of empty space.
This machine, known as the Turk because of its exotic costume, could play chess, moving the pieces with a mechanical arm and defeating even the best human players.
Let me begin by revealing a personal secret: Between 1983 and 1994, I made a reputation writing books (including Searching for Bobby Fischer) and national magazine pieces about chess--indeed, I became lost in chess, blissfully addicted to writing about the personalities and intricacies of the royal game, much as many men become chess addicts.
But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out.
Ultimately, this case will get resolved, but with so many different pieces on the chess board, it is not likely to happen now.
Most of the games at Mind Games are variations of well-known ones, say Chinese checkers with a revolving outer ring, or chess with dice that can change how the pieces move.
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