“Knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge” (Owen 1514) is one of many somber lines that Owen uses to depict a World War I battleground in his work Dulce et Decorum Est. This poem begins with descriptions of the cruelty of war‚ of soldiers who were missing boots‚ but were so frightened that they limped along‚ exhausted beyond comparison‚ unconscious of even bombshells as they dropped. Out of these deteriorating men‚ Owen fashions a narrator‚ a man lucky enough to snap his mask into
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thin and neatly welded iron bars run horizontally across each window. The curtains are silk‚ off-white with vivid floral designs. All the doors are of teak wood painted milk white. The floor is tiled with red and white marble in an alternate‚ chessboard-like way‚ covered over by a gray carpet with blue zigzags. The walls are covered with light blue wallpaper with textured design. The ceiling is white decorated with colorful mirror work. There are three chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. They
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part of a Chessplayer’s nature” (Rudolf Spielman) | 05 | “All I want to do‚ ever‚ is just play Chess” (Bobby Fischer) | 06 | “A win by an unsound combination‚ however showy‚ fills me with artistic horror” (Wilhelm Steinitz) | 07 | “The chessboard is the world‚ the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe‚ the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the
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of a special series organized by the Bahria Media Society and was attended by the honourable rector‚ Vice Admiral Shahid Iqbal‚ faculty members and a large number of students. Brigadier Nadir Mir is an author of two books (‘Gwader on the Global Chessboard’ and ‘Geopolitik Pakistan’) and it was for his second publication that the crowd had gathered in the lecture theatre to hear him talk. Mir‚ in his lecture‚ highlighted the importance of geopolitics as a subject and stressed the need for it to be
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1 Introduction The N-Queens problem is a classical AI problem. Its name is derived from the allowed moves for the queen piece in chess. Queens are allowed to move horizontally‚ vertically‚ or diagonally‚ backward and forward‚ with the only restriction being that they can move in only one direction at a time. A queen that can reach another piece in one move captures it. The N-Queens problem is based on the notion of trying to place N queens on an N x N grid‚ such that no queen will be able to capture
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Education is a word bandied in the media and political debates frequently‚ but when people try to discuss this concept‚ many will disagree. As such‚ it is imperative that before we try to discuss educational initiatives‚ we must define the term. Education is a systematic effort to provide students with new ways of thinking. For the purposes of this essay‚ the term students refers to any person for whom education is provided‚ whether it is formal or informal and whether the student is responsive
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War Influence in Latin America The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game‚ with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians‚ a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere‚ America’s “backyard”‚ it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong
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religious and traditional reasons‚ finally it gained its reputation in most of school nowadays. It is well known fact that Turkish tribes are famous with epic warriors in according to varied source of history books. Chess is also epic game‚ with the chessboard resembles a battlefield and two sets of pieces the two contending armies and the two rival players think in terms of attack‚ defense‚ capture‚ threats ambushes and tactics. The chess game is full of such activities which suggest a real and live
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special way of dressing‚ using red‚ blue and silver. These colors would also be the ones representing the national flag‚ which was made by Ban Josip in 1848. This flag is divided in three colors‚ in the middle it has a shield with 25 red and white chessboard squares and 5 symbols at the top representing the 4 main regions of Croatia
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project of such magnitude. We would also like to thank Ms. Kalpana G Bhat‚ without whose intital efforts our project could not have been envisioned. Page 1 Digital systems design project Abstract Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard‚ a square checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins the game with sixteen pieces: one king‚ one queen‚ two rooks‚ two knights‚ two bishops‚ and eight pawns. Each of the six piece types moves differently
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