Chess endgame Essays

In 2010 I wrote a series of essays decoding some ideas about Twilight and included the chess analogies. Here is the chapter about it. The world famous chess was conceived as a war game for two players, played on a board of 8x8 squares, alternating the colors, white and black, which are the 64 possible positions for game development. At the beginning of the game, each player has sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks, and eight pawns. The objective is to overthrow

Time is an element in the creation and development of a narrative. Time can be used to express events in different styles and to enrich a timeline with details. In magical realism and surrealism, which deal with the extraordinary as part of the ordinary, time is elongated, overturned, and set in different forms, jumping from one event to another without it immediately making sense. In Haruki Murakami’s short story collection, The Elephant Vanishes, it is as if time were an antagonist at first, a

Phillip Pacheco Lit. Matters Final Paper 5/1/17 Isolation in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame In terms of bleakness, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame is a hard one to surpass. Not limited by its intricacies, Endgame is a one-act play that depicts the wretched and monotonous interactions between figurative characters in a post-apocalyptic world. Beckett uses several powerful themes throughout the play including the true meaning of life and death, but I believe the most important to be the idea of loneliness. This

into everything-- whether it’s her talent for chess or placating her mother. This becomes evident throughout the story in terms of what Waverly’s character reveals. The characterization of Waverly Jong in Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game” delineates the importance of foresight and the ability to anticipate the outcome of situations, especially in the case of her mother. In analyzing Waverly’s acknowledgement, “I learned why it is essential in the endgame to have foresight...all weaknesses and advantages

Thesis Statement The research studies Anger in Edward Albee’s The American Dream focusing on dissatisfaction, lack of love, cruelty, false values and losing norms through using repetition, aggressive language, fictional characters, irony, ambiguity, and the technique of alienation. Outline I. Theoretical Part: Anger in Literature 1. Definitions: a. Linda M. Grasso claims that Anger is “vital political tool. It enables new perspectives, new understanding of oppressive

Chess, a strategic game played between two people, calls for many different pieces that represent people on a battlefield ("Chess Pieces”). The board being played on, which has a checkerboard pattern, is the “battlefield.” Every piece on the board is in the “battle.” The fact that all the pieces on a chessboard are in battle shares a common idea that all the people on the earth are in the battle; one single piece or person does not go into battle by its lonesome self. One metaphor that refers to

Foolishness is a theme that plays a huge part in Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Foolishness is defined as ‘lacking good sense or judgement’, and there is definitely a whole of that shown in many, if not most, of the characters in the play. This play is, however, a comedy, and when not taken seriously, all the empty-headedness adds a huge part in the hilarity of the play. Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, and Algernon are characters in this play who do an exceptional job of displaying

piece was named “Endgame”. It’s oil on canvas that was created in 1944 and it is 17 inches by 17 inches. This painting is a surrealist style. The painting is a chess board with four rooks displayed in the upper right corner and they are white and light blue. From the rooks, there are faint white lines representing the queens moves on the board. These lines lead up to a satin heeled female shoe that represents the queen. The shoe is crushing a bishops mitre (representing the bishop chess piece) with so

The movie “Blood Diamond” is a very revealing tale that easily shows the underlying morals and ethics of many people in this world. During this movie, one can see the absence of conscience, respect for “the other” as well as the pure dedication people have to the direction in life that they have chosen. All of these morals, or lack thereof, are presented by many various groups and characters throughout the movie and in their own way affect and change the ethical dilemma that is the blood diamonds

The book is better than the movie, a comment that is stated after every film adaptation ever known to man. Why does the book always seem to be more preferable? Seeing the book on screen, through the eyes of the director, will never live up to the expectations that were implanted upon the viewer when the book was read themselves. “The Odyssey” is a superior work of art to the film O! Brother, Where Art Thou? because Odysseus is the worthier epic hero and the film loses the major theme of hospitality

Within a chess game, there is a king, a queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns. Throughout the game of chess, all of the pieces are required to help the king achieve checkmate. Those pieces, excluding the king, are sacrificed during the game for the king to gain victory. In Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless has gone on a journey to Alaska. He has met various people who assisted him throughout the way, including helping him find information or giving him a ride. As

The only other film that anyone can recall that alludes to Bobby Fischer’s life is Searching For Bobby Fischer. Pawn Sacrifice is a darker, more mature, more painful take on his life, specifically, versus on another chess player enamored by and torn by Bobby Fischer. What immediately stood out to me are the compelling aesthetics and cinematography, actually. I did not check prior to seeing the film, but after, I realised that the cinematographer for Pawn Sacrifice is one of my faves, Bradford Young

At my elementary school, there was a big field right next to the playground where my male peers would play football. I always wanted to join their game and try to play, so they put me on a team to be nice to be nice but they never hurled the ball to me. This was because I am a girl and they believed girls couldn’t correctly play football, little did they know this made me feel as invisible as a ghost. This is a common feeling for a lot of innocuous kids because they don’t fit in. An outsider is what

household chess champion. When I was young, he taught me the rules and how each piece moves. I caught on quickly, and I desired to learn more about this complicated game. I challenged my dad frequently, but being only a beginner, I lost every time. My losing streak did not discourage me, though. As we played more often, certain tactics became clear to me, and I started to catch up to my father. Now, our chess skills are about even, and we both enjoy playing against each other. Because of my chess experiences

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.” (page 22) During this part of the story, Pi reflects on the profound effects that an individual can leave on other people. Any creature has the potential to be a catalyst; they can affect everyone around them, but they themselves will not be altered. This quote alludes to a section later in the novel, particularly when Richard Parker leaves Pi after arriving in Mexico

you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess?” These are the bold words of a girl who is afraid to speak up to her mother (Tan 221-222). The short story, “Rules of The Game '' is about a girl named Waverly who learned to come of age with her strict mother. Waverly’s brother, Vincent got a chess set for Christmas, and ever since then, Waverly had been a chess prodigy. After a long journey and many games, she began to win lots of tournaments against

Why are models based on optimality often used to explain adaptation? What does the use of games theory add? Optimality models and game theory are two fairly interlinked ideas, each of which, or a combination of the two, may be used to explain why a species has adapted to perform the behaviours observed in the wild. An optimality model aims to discover which phenotype/behaviour from a set of these, known as strategies, is optimal in terms of individual fitness of an organism (Rice, 2012). In order

Waverly Jong: A Character Analysis In Rules of the Game, a short story in “The Joy Luck Club”, we meet Waverly Jong, a Chinese- American that is a chess prodigy. The events that transpire in this story, mirror the life of the author, Amy Tan. In this story, we learn about Waverly’s experiences from the age of six to nine. We learn about her from: the communication between her mother and her, how others act around her, and her actions. One of the best ways you can learn about someone is how they

Have you ever dreamed to live well? Or Did you know someone who has lived a good life? If so, how can you define a good life? According to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the good life can be defined as “a life marked by a high standard of Living. The good life can be defined as a way that someone plans to live virtuously by having a great education, enough money, and helping others. In other words, the good life means to me when life looks like a blessing than a burden. This essay aims to provide

Have you ever thought about what living in a world with talking animals and foods that can change your size would be like? Well, in the book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, the main character, Alice, falls down a rabbit hole into Wonderland, a place filled with strange people, animals, and odd encounters with these characters. Some major events in this story are when Alice first finds the door to the garden, drinks the strange liquid so she would shrink, then she meets the Cheshire