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  • noun Plural form of endgame.

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Examples

  • His style, often grinding out long endgames, is prone to produce fatigue and stress, while his earlier long unbeaten run is unusual for great masters, most of whom only acquire the highest levels of stability in their mid-20s.

    Magnus Carlsen should follow the example of Bobby Fischer in a crisis Leonard Barden 2010

  • The writers comment on theoretical novelties, middlegame tactics and endgames and review chess publications.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess in Clouds of Smoke Lubomir Kavalek 2012

  • He teaches them tactics, positional play, endgames and gives them a solid and sensible opening repertoire.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Champion's Class Act Lubomir Kavalek 2010

  • He teaches them tactics, positional play, endgames and gives them a solid and sensible opening repertoire.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Champion's Class Act Lubomir Kavalek 2010

  • Over at The Times, Economist Paul Krugman observes that most news accounts portrary this “as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent—because news reports always do that.” This conventional wisdom was sealed a few weeks ago by Jon Stewart, who gingerly knocked both parties, with false equivalency, for stoking their own equally horrific political endgames.

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

  • They report on tournaments, interview players, follow opening trends, analyze endgames and use videos.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess in Clouds of Smoke Lubomir Kavalek 2012

  • The whole complex is fortified to withstand the kind of attack that happens mostly in movies—spectacular explosions, apocalyptic endgames—but also in small-scale Mexican real-life.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • They report on tournaments, interview players, follow opening trends, analyze endgames and use videos.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess in Clouds of Smoke Lubomir Kavalek 2012

  • The writers comment on theoretical novelties, middlegame tactics and endgames and review chess publications.

    Lubomir Kavalek: Chess in Clouds of Smoke Lubomir Kavalek 2012

  • Over at The Times, Economist Paul Krugman observes that most news accounts portrary this “as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent—because news reports always do that.” This conventional wisdom was sealed a few weeks ago by Jon Stewart, who gingerly knocked both parties, with false equivalency, for stoking their own equally horrific political endgames.

    Ari Melber: Media Blows Debt Crisis Coverage With Balance Bias Ari Melber 2011

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