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...what the wily machine likes. Kramnik could have improved the placement of his pieces, slowly strangling Fritz with the python-like play that had succeeded in the first half of the match. But in a sign of possible trouble, he took an uncharacteristically long time on his fourteenth move ("Vlad thinking here is not a good omen for those rooting for living creatures," said Russian grand master Peter Svidler) and an extraordinary 42 minutes on the seventeenth move. With his clock still running, Kramnik suddenly "popped up from the chessboard," said match commentator Mig Greengard, and ran with his bodyguard...
...This is going to be good," said international master William Paschall. "This is the kind of fighting chess you want to see. Vlad the Python has become Vlad the Viper. He wants to take the machine out tactically. He can't resist the temptation to try to beat the computer at its own game...
...communist President Vladimir Voronin and new parliamentary elections. The protests were sparked in January by the re-introduction of compulsory Russian-language lessons in a country where most of the population speaks Romanian. The demonstrations grew after the disappearance, in suspicious circumstances, of opposition journalist and Parliament deputy Vlad Cubreacov...
...ATKINSON Mr. Bean creator crashes his Aston Martin into a wall. Sits with a disconsolate expression wondering when Harrison Ford will show up BORIS BECKER Tennis maestro must pay child support after siring a child in a Japanese restaurant broom-closet with a model. What was in that sashimi? VLAD DRACUL PRINCE KRETZULESCO Transylvanian royal loses suit against firm selling Dracula wine. His case against Kretzulesco Fish Fingers was also dismissed...
...MSNBC, an ad for a collection of old songs began: "Don't let the moments of your life fade away." There is such a thing as cruel and unusual punishment; the concealed show in Terre Haute was unusual, but not exactly the work of Vlad the Impaler. Is there something preposterous about executing a mass murderer in such comfort? What if he'd been wheeled in a tumbrel through the streets of Oklahoma City, to be execrated and spat upon on the way to a guillotine on the spot where the Alfred P. Murrah Building once stood...