| Game with bishops |
Commuter |
19 Apr 2024 |
| Part of match, essentially, in board game (5) |
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| Musical boxes Tchaikovsky initially overlooked (5) |
|
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| Maurice Ashley's game |
|
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| Game with an "en passant" rule that governs pawn capture |
|
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| Musical about Switzerland is Spanish success initially (5) |
|
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| Game with rooks |
Commuter |
11 Apr 2024 |
| Game featured in the series The Queen's Gambit (5) |
|
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| Revolutionary ship pursuit (5) |
|
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| It's played in matches, sometimes |
|
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| "The Queen's Gambit" topic |
|
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| Board game |
Mirror Classic |
27 Mar 2024 |
| Mating competition? |
Universal |
25 Mar 2024 |
| Game that was a lifelong passion of 5 down (5) |
|
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| Board game with bishops and pawns (5) |
|
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| The game of Charlie and Rudolf |
|
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| Musical game |
Mirror Cryptic |
16 Mar 2024 |
| Board game |
Mirror Quick |
16 Mar 2024 |
| 1986 Tim Rice/Benny Andersson musical (5) |
|
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| One of the mates in it should be game (5) |
|
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| Game played between mates? (5) |
|
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| Extremely churlish female ending the mating game (5) |
|
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| "16 on 16" competition |
Newsday |
24 Feb 2024 |
| A musical game! (5) |
|
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| Logical pastime |
Mirror Quick |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Musical game |
Mirror Cryptic |
08 Feb 2024 |
| Board game with pawns and rooks (5) |
|
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| Musical board game (5) |
|
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| Board game where the goal is mate |
|
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| Malt and this game could be matchless (5) |
|
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| It involves mate getting companion to accompany letter (5) |
|
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| "The game of kings" |
Commuter |
17 Jan 2024 |
| Bucks. chalk stream - in beaches surprisingly! (5) |
|
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| Anand's forte (5) |
|
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| What involves one's quest for a mate? |
Universal |
31 Dec 2023 |
| Pawns and kings board game |
|
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| Game played by grandmasters |
|
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| Board game whose opening moves include the King's Gambit and Scotch Game (5) |
|
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| New world champ of this royal board game is from China (5) |
|
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| What requires men to play part in Witches' Sabbath? (5) |
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| What requires men to play part in Witches' Sabbath? |
The Telegraph Toughie |
19 Dec 2023 |
| Musical featuring One Night in Bangkok 21 Across |
|
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| Game with rooks |
LA Times Daily |
03 Dec 2023 |
| Tim Rice musical |
|
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| A floorboard of a pontoon bridge; a game embodied by the goddess Caissa; or, a species of brome-grass, found growing with wheat (5) |
|
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| Board game associated with Bobby Fischer and Nigel Short (5) |
|
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| On-board diversion? |
The Guardian Quick |
25 Nov 2023 |
| On-board diversion? (5) |
|
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| Teaches son hiding game |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
24 Nov 2023 |
| Complex board game |
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| Board game |
The Telegraph Quick |
22 Nov 2023 |
| Game he's into completely strategical, firstly |
The Times Quick Cryptic |
08 Nov 2023 |
| Board game |
The Telegraph Quick |
09 Oct 2023 |
| Game ending in "mate" |
New York Times |
02 Oct 2023 |
| Game with grandmasters |
LA Times Daily |
18 Sep 2023 |
| Game played by Magnus Carlsen, e.g. |
The Telegraph Quick |
12 Sep 2023 |
| Section of launch, essentially, in which master gets mates on board |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Jul 2023 |
| Game of skill caught old Nazi |
The Guardian Cryptic |
25 Jul 2023 |
| 'A foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time,' per Shaw |
New York Times |
15 Jun 2023 |
| Game with pawns |
USA Today |
09 Jun 2023 |
| Board game combined with boxing in a hybrid sport |
USA Today |
29 May 2023 |
| Game you can play with a mate? |
Universal |
17 Feb 2023 |
| Game with castling |
USA Today |
27 Jan 2023 |
| 32-piece pastime |
Newsday |
08 Jan 2023 |
| Xie Jun's game |
USA Today |
27 Nov 2022 |
| Board game |
The Times Concise |
16 Nov 2022 |
| Overlooking some French titled lady for musical |
The Telegraph Toughie |
27 Oct 2022 |
| Game created by guerrilla leader’s son |
The Times Cryptic |
25 Oct 2022 |
| Board game |
The Telegraph Quick |
08 Sep 2022 |
| Game played with horses |
Newsday |
01 Sep 2022 |
| Game with pawns and bishops |
Newsday |
22 Aug 2022 |
| Board game that had its first Earth vs Space match in 1970 |
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| A game with mates |
The Guardian Quick |
22 Jun 2022 |
| In which 'essence' is an intellectual pursuit |
The Guardian Cryptic |
03 Jun 2022 |
| In which ‘essence' is an intellectual pursuit |
|
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| It has thousands of openings |
New York Times |
22 May 2022 |
| Game with queens and knights |
Newsday |
10 May 2022 |
| Game of checkers? |
Universal |
03 May 2022 |
| Board game |
The Times Concise |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Activity with castles |
LA Times Daily |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Activity with castles |
The Washington Post |
15 Apr 2022 |
| Board game |
The Guardian Quick |
01 Apr 2022 |
| 'The Queen's Gambit' game |
The Washington Post |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Musical Rudolf having caught on |
|
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| "The Queen's Gambit" game |
LA Times Daily |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Game with a blitz variety |
The Washington Post Sunday |
23 Jan 2022 |
| Spassky's game |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Jan 2022 |
| The mating game? |
New York Times |
05 Jan 2022 |
| Game of skill |
The Telegraph Quick |
20 Dec 2021 |
| Soprano's overwhelmed by revolutionary musical |
|
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| Game contributed by the Dutch essentially |
|
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| It entails taking men on board, ending with mate |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 Oct 2021 |
| It entails taking men on board, ending with mate |
|
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| The Mating Game or Red and The Bodyguard? |
|
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| "Three-Person ___," strategy game developed by Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory" |
|
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| Game of checkers? |
New York Times |
14 Aug 2021 |
| Mating game |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Aug 2021 |
| Where queens are most powerful |
Newsday |
20 May 2021 |
| Matches on Saturday will show this game |
|
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| Game that can end in two moves |
Universal |
08 May 2021 |
| Game show |
|
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| Spassky's game |
Eugene Sheffer |
03 May 2021 |
| The mating game? |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Mar 2021 |
| 80s musical |
The Sun Two Speed |
17 Mar 2021 |
| "The Queen's Gambit" game |
Universal |
09 Mar 2021 |
| 32-piece game |
Newsday |
07 Mar 2021 |
| Hurts to lose a second battle of wits |
|
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| Board manoeuvres – the likes of Fergie deprived of dues |
|
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| Nona Gaprindashvili's game |
USA Today |
23 Feb 2021 |
| Judit Polgar's game |
USA Today |
12 Feb 2021 |
| Board game |
The Times Concise |
28 Jan 2021 |
| Part of which, essentially, that's like Othello in certain ways |
|
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| Board game |
The Telegraph Quick |
24 Sep 2020 |
| Mating activity? |
Wall Street Journal |
18 Sep 2020 |
| Wizard's ___, magical variant of a classical board game played at Hogwarts in which pieces move of their own accord on the player's command |
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| Game with two queens |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2020 |
| 'The gymnasium of the mind,' per Pascal |
New York Times |
04 Aug 2020 |
| Sophocles dismissed pool with the mating game? |
Irish Times Crosaire |
15 Jul 2020 |
| Ancient board game |
Newsday |
05 Jul 2020 |
| Pastime for Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin |
New York Times |
11 Jun 2020 |
| Musical with the song "Endgame" |
LA Times Daily |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Musical with the song 'Endgame' |
The Washington Post |
05 Jun 2020 |
| Game in Vonnegut's ''All the King's Horses'' |
Newsday |
02 May 2020 |
| Game with queens |
Universal |
22 Apr 2020 |
| Phiona Mutesi's game |
USA Today |
11 Apr 2020 |
| She's desperately after clubs in game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
06 Apr 2020 |
| Mating game |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Mar 2020 |
| Game with kings and rooks |
|
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| Game with boxes, present finally emerging |
|
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| ***Game with rooks (1 and 2) |
Universal |
06 Dec 2019 |
| Game with grand masters |
Universal |
03 Dec 2019 |
| Mate finishes this chapter -- he's succeeded |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Dec 2019 |
| Game of kings and pawns |
Newsday |
27 Nov 2019 |
| Game with pawns |
Thomas Joseph |
14 Oct 2019 |
| Game with rooks |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Oct 2019 |
| Game on an 8x8 board |
New York Times |
30 Sep 2019 |
| Quest for a mate |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Sep 2019 |
| *Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil |
The Washington Post |
05 Sep 2019 |
| *Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil |
LA Times Daily |
05 Sep 2019 |
| Poem by Jan Kochanowski |
The Telegraph General Knowledge |
12 Aug 2019 |
| Board game |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Jul 2019 |
| Contest my mate sometimes wins? |
The Sun Two Speed |
19 Jul 2019 |
| Subject game of this puzzle |
New York Times |
07 Jul 2019 |
| Game with knights |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jul 2019 |
| Game with knights |
The Washington Post |
07 Jul 2019 |
| Contest in search of mate |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
04 Jun 2019 |
| Where you could see a queen winking with knight? |
|
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| Mating game? |
USA Today |
07 May 2019 |
| Game of kings |
Universal |
06 Apr 2019 |
| Game with a mate |
LA Times Daily |
31 Mar 2019 |
| Game with a mate |
The Washington Post |
31 Mar 2019 |
| Promotional activity? |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 Mar 2019 |
| The mating game? |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
03 Mar 2019 |
| This chap's admitted to the Civil Service |
|
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| '___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted': Vladimir Putin |
New York Times |
06 Jan 2019 |
| Game: Nazis against Communist |
|
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| Kingly pursuit? |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Jan 2019 |
| Game on an 8x8 board |
|
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| *Influential record company named for co-founding brothers Leonard and Phil |
|
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| Game with a mate |
|
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| Game with knights |
|
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| Quest for a mate |
|
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| Kingly pursuit? |
|
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| Mating game? |
|
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| Game of kings |
|
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| Subject game of this puzzle |
|
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| "___ makes man wiser and clear-sighted": Vladimir Putin |
|
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| Game with pawns and bishops |
Newsday |
04 Dec 2018 |
| Game with bishops |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Nov 2018 |
| Bobby Fischer's game |
USA Today |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Revolutionary is chased by paramilitary force? It's just a war game |
|
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| Boxes, losing bout finally? Here's another game |
|
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| Men leaving unpleasant tasks succeeded in game |
|
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| Google's AlphaZero "mastered" it in four hours |
The New Yorker |
10 Sep 2018 |
| County side's opening game |
|
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| Board game with rooks and knights that is one of the oldest board games |
|
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| Grandmaster's game |
LA Times Daily |
02 Jul 2018 |
| Grandmaster's game |
The Washington Post |
02 Jul 2018 |
| Mate ends this old duty husband introduced |
|
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| Mating game |
The Washington Post |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Mating game |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jun 2018 |
| Noble misses kick-off for Dundee United game |
|
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| 'While all artists are not ____ players, all ____ players are artists' (Marcel Duchamp) |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
29 Apr 2018 |
| 32-piece pastime |
Newsday |
11 Apr 2018 |
| Board game with pawns |
Newsday |
13 Feb 2018 |
| Game of strategy |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jan 2018 |
| Caught, she's out in game |
The Sun Two Speed |
08 Jan 2018 |
| Fischer's forte |
The Washington Post |
07 Jan 2018 |
| Fischer's forte |
LA Times Daily |
07 Jan 2018 |
| Bobby Fischer's game |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Fischer's forte |
|
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| "I failed to make the ___ team because of my height": Woody Allen |
|
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| Grandmaster's game |
|
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| Where men are on board ship beside revolutionary |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Dec 2017 |
| Game with capturing |
The Washington Post |
03 Dec 2017 |
| Game with capturing |
LA Times Daily |
03 Dec 2017 |
| Board meeting activity? |
The Washington Post Sunday |
03 Dec 2017 |
| Game chap with son in Court of Session |
|
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| Battle on board revolutionary ship |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
02 Nov 2017 |
| 'Life is a kind of ___': Benjamin Franklin |
New York Times |
18 Oct 2017 |
| Deep Blue beat this game’s world champion in 1997 |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
01 Oct 2017 |
| 'Mental torture,' per Garry Kasparov |
The Washington Post Sunday |
17 Sep 2017 |
| The Mating Game in black and white |
|
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| Musical written by Tim Rice and two members of ABBA |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
27 Aug 2017 |
| Strategic board game |
Universal |
07 Aug 2017 |
| Activity on board revolutionary ship |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
15 Jul 2017 |
| Mate ends it when he's overwhelmed by extremely cheerless feelings |
|
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| Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament |
LA Times Daily |
08 Jul 2017 |
| Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament |
The Washington Post |
08 Jul 2017 |
| Game where men could jump overboard |
|
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| Mater plays it cool to start with, then she's off! |
|
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| Revolutionary seems to lose heart in game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
07 Mar 2017 |
| Kasparov's game |
The Washington Post |
05 Feb 2017 |
| Game with kings and queens |
Newsday |
22 Jan 2017 |
| After check, finally one wins this game |
|
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| Game with capturing |
|
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| Musical whose plot involves a two-person tournament |
|
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| "Life is a kind of ___": Benjamin Franklin |
|
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| Strategic board game |
|
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| It's played on board ship by chemical engineer |
|
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| Revolutionary ship that ends with mate on board |
|
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| Game with kings and rooks |
Newsday |
29 Aug 2016 |
| It offers checking |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Aug 2016 |
| Game with kings and queens |
Universal |
10 Aug 2016 |
| Many of its pieces are lost during play |
LA Times Daily |
31 Jul 2016 |
| County in short leading second game |
|
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| Mating game |
The Chronicle of Higher Education |
08 Jul 2016 |
| Game / show |
|
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| County in short leading second game |
|
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| Cases in which time is lost in game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
19 May 2016 |
| It includes a lot of checks |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Apr 2016 |
| Combative deployment of men on board |
The Times Cryptic |
05 Apr 2016 |
| Game with knights and pawns |
Newsday |
30 Mar 2016 |
| 'The gymnasium of the mind,' to Pascal |
Wall Street Journal |
26 Feb 2016 |
| Relatively recent musical game |
|
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| It involves a quest for a mate |
USA Today |
06 Feb 2016 |
| Musical about pianist Dame Myra |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
05 Jan 2016 |
| Game with kings and queens |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Master work? |
|
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| It involves a quest for a mate |
|
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| Many of its pieces are lost during play |
|
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| Game with kings and queens |
The Guardian Quick |
26 Dec 2015 |
| Musical game |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Nov 2015 |
| Match with bishops |
LA Times Daily |
11 Nov 2015 |
| 'As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency,' per Raymond Chandler |
New York Times |
24 Oct 2015 |
| The mating game? |
USA Today |
05 Jul 2015 |
| Venerable board game |
Newsday |
28 Jun 2015 |
| The mating game |
|
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| The mating game? |
Premier Sunday |
19 Apr 2015 |
| Deep Blue's game |
Eugene Sheffer |
18 Apr 2015 |
| 'Heading for Colditz', Nazi musical |
The Telegraph Toughie |
10 Apr 2015 |
| Kind of board |
Universal |
10 Apr 2015 |
| Setting for a castle |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2015 |
| Boxes, losing tense contest in 9 |
|
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| The mating game? |
|
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| Match with bishops |
|
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| Venerable board game |
|
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| "As elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency," per Raymond Chandler |
|
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| Setting for a castle |
|
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| Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus musical |
|
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| The mating game? |
|
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| Kind of board |
|
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| Some coaches spoil game |
|
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| Are the cells used in this game grey? |
|
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| Some coaches spoil game |
|
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| Game where the ends of the answers to starred clues are commonly heard |
|
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| Game of pawns and kings |
|
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| It may include a checking account |
|
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| Game in which pieces can be forked |
|
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| Game with checks |
|
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| What a check might be delivered in |
|
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| Magnus Carlsen's game |
|
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| Game with checks |
|
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| The mating game |
|
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| Game with forks and pins |
|
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| Game of strategy |
|
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| Game played with 32 men |
|
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| War for 30 men and 2 women? |
|
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| Game with horses |
|
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| Fischer's skill |
|
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| Game with pawns |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Mating game? |
|
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| Bogart played it by mail |
|
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| Fischer's game |
|
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| Game with pawns and knights |
|
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| *Musical featuring "One Night in Bangkok"* |
|
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| It includes a lot of checks |
|
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| Rank-and-file game |
|
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| Fischer's game |
|
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| Activity requiring four bishops |
|
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| Game with kings and pawns |
|
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| Game with checks |
|
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| Benjamin Franklin's "The Morals of ___" |
|
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| Checkers alternative |
|
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| Many men get captured in it |
|
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| Game with 16 men on a side |
|
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| Activity requiring four bishops |
|
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| Pastime with pawns |
|
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| Game with knights |
|
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| Its openings are often studied |
|
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| Knight's activity? |
|
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| Spassky's passion |
|
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| Ancient pastime |
|
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| Game of kings and queens |
|
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| Knight's realm? |
|
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| Game with kings and queens |
|
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| Game of kings and queens? |
|
|
| "Through the Looking-Glass" game |
|
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| Where there's a quest for a mate |
|
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| It involves one's quest for a mate |
|
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| Game with at most one mate |
|
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| Game with at most one mate |
|
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| Game with kings and castles |
|
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| Deep Blue's game |
|
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| The mating game? |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| 32-man game |
|
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| Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues |
|
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| Game with gambits |
|
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| Game that features mating |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Word that can precede the first word of the answers to the asterisked clues |
|
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| __ set |
|
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| Game of kings and castles |
|
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| Game with gambits |
|
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| 32-man game |
|
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| "Through the Looking-Glass" game |
|
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| Capablanca's game |
|
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| Game with many openings |
|
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| Speed ___ |
|
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| Setting for a check |
|
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| Fischer's game |
|
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| Game in which mating may occur |
|
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| Its queen is a man |
|
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| Its queens are men |
|
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| What a patzer plays |
|
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| "Through the Looking-Glass" game |
|
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| The mating game? |
|
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| Endgame game |
|
|
| It has two kings and two queens |
|
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| Fischer's forte |
|
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| Grandmaster's game |
|
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| Where the queen travels farther than the king |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Where the queen conquers more than the king |
|
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| The mating game |
|
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| Game played with men and a board |
|
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| Game believed to be of Indian origin |
|
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| Game played on 64 squares |
|
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| Game of bishops and knights |
|
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| Kasparov's game |
|
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| Mating game |
|
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| Deeper Blue's game |
|
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| Checking account? |
|
|
| Checking activity |
|
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| The mating game? |
|
|
| Board game |
|
|
| 32-man game |
|
|
| Fischer forte |
|
|
| Game played with bishops |
|
|
| Spassky's game |
|
|
| Game of kings and queens? |
|
|
| Kasparov's game |
|
|
| "Searching for Bobby Fischer" game |
|
|
| Mating game |
|
|
| Venue in which mating occurs |
|
|
| Bishops' game |
|
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| Board game |
|
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| Fischer's forte |
|
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| Game with kings and rooks |
|
|
| Game with 16 men on a side |
|
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| Game with checks and squares |
|
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| Board game |
|
|
| Deep Blue's game |
|
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| Fischer's forte |
|
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| Game with pins |
|
|
| Karpov's game |
|
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| Where some castles are found |
|
|
| 32-member board |
|
|
| Mating game? |
|
|
| Game of kings and queens |
|
|
| The mating game? |
|
|
| Game with a Sicilian defense |
|
|
| Fischer's field |
|
|
| Spassky's game |
|
|
| Deep Blue's game |
|
|
| Bishops' game |
|
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| Battle of wits |
|
|
| Deep Blue specialty |
|
|
| Black-and-white set |
|
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| Popular newspaper column |
|
|
| Kind of board |
|
|
| Kasparov's game |
|
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| Board game from India |
|
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| Castle locale |
|
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| Game born in India |
|
|
| Karpov's forte |
|
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| Game |
|
|
| 1988 Tim Rice musical |
|
|
| This puzzle's theme |
|
|
| Judit Polgar's game |
|
|
| Mating game? |
|
|
| Kind of pie or board |
|
|
| Karpov's forte |
|
|
| The mating game |
|
|
| Karpov's game |
|
|
| Bobby Fischer's game |
|
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| Where a king may be castled |
|
|
| Board game |
|
|
| Popular pastime in Iceland |
|
|
| Game of strategy |
|
|
| In which a queen is most powerful |
|
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| Tal's forte |
|
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| "Looking Glass" game |
|
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| Fischer's forte |
|
|
| Game |
|
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| Icelandic activity |
|
|
| Game with men |
|
|
| Morphy's forte |
|
|
| Tal's forte. |
|
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| Game. |
|
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| Game for two. |
|
|
| Petrosian's forte. |
|
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| Fischer's forte. |
|
|
| Forte of Bobby Fischer. |
|
|
| Scheme of "Looking-Glass" land. |
|
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| Table game. |
|
|
| Theme of the "Looking-glass" tale. |
|
|
| Paul Morphy's forte. |
|
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| Paul Morphy's game. |
|
|
| Theme in Looking-Glass Land. |
|
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| Game requiring 32 pieces. |
|
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| Board game. |
|
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| Alekhine's forte. |
|
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| Alekhine's game. |
|
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| Game of skill. |
|
|
| Larry Evans' game. |
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| Basic idea in "Through the Looking Glass." |
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| Dr. Alekhine's game. |
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| Substance of the fantasy is "Through the Looking Glass." |
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| Russia's favorite game, probably invented in India. |
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| A game of pure skill. |
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| An area of U. S.–Russian rivalry. |
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| "The ___ board is the world."—Huxley. |
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| Bishop's millieu |
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| It has four bishops |
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| Short game? |
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