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  • Even if one were to grant "chessmaster" the best argument, that health care is not among the Section 8 Powers Granted to Congress, (and therefore is properly a State issue), proposing a questionable law is a far cry from being the war mongering mass murders that Bush and Cheney have shown themselves to be. by

    Impeachment, Bush's Child Health Care Veto and Univeral Single Payer Health Insurance 2007

  • Now, every time I go to a movie, I size up each audience member as a potential threat (like some of us do on airplanes), and plot my seating choice with the calculated effort of a chessmaster (behind talkers, in front of single patrons, far from teenagers, outside the seat-kicking distance of little kids).

    Joel Schwartzberg: Who Thinks It's Okay to Text & Tweet During Movies? Joel Schwartzberg 2010

  • Now, every time I go to a movie, I size up each audience member as a potential threat (like some of us do on airplanes), and plot my seating choice with the calculated effort of a chessmaster (behind talkers, in front of single patrons, far from teenagers, outside the seat-kicking distance of little kids).

    Joel Schwartzberg: Who Thinks It's Okay to Text & Tweet During Movies? Joel Schwartzberg 2010

  • Now, every time I go to a movie, I size up each audience member as a potential threat (like some of us do on airplanes), and plot my seating choice with the calculated effort of a chessmaster (behind talkers, in front of single patrons, far from teenagers, outside the seat-kicking distance of little kids).

    Joel Schwartzberg: Who Thinks It's Okay to Text & Tweet During Movies? Joel Schwartzberg 2010

  • If by chessmaster you mean political chessmaster, then fine, he beat the clinton machine, good for him.

    Discourse.net: Friday McBush Bashing (Olympic Edition) 2008

  • Sir Roger's older brother Oliver was a professor of mathematics in Edinburgh, younger brother Jonathan was British Chess Champion ten times, possibly the most talented chessmaster of all time and a talented game theorist.

    A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

  • This guy is the chessmaster of reality dating shows!

    Ryan Haydon and Stefani Piermattei: Real Deal Reason:/ The Bachelorette June 29th Recap 2009

  • In one of my favorite books ever, two of the characters, Lily the female chessmaster and Nim, the mysterious mentor, both have ragtop sports cars and like to drive with the top down in winter, which behavior I completely fail to understand.

    Common Themes: Mysteries and Cars 2007

  • When the now-infamous attempt by the Prime Minister to smuggle in the death of public subsidies to political parties was met with hysteria from the opposition, it quickly became clear that the chessmaster had, for once, miscalculated.

    Archive 2008-12-01 ALW 2008

  • When the now-infamous attempt by the Prime Minister to smuggle in the death of public subsidies to political parties was met with hysteria from the opposition, it quickly became clear that the chessmaster had, for once, miscalculated.

    Down The Rabbit Hole ALW 2008

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