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Mister Sinister (Dr. Nathaniel Essex) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.Created by writer Chris Claremont, the character was first mentioned as the employer behind the team of assassins known as the Marauders in The Uncanny X-Men #212 (December 1986), and later seen in silhouette in The Uncanny X-Men #213, with both issues serving as chapters of the ...
When emails go missing in AOL Mail, it's often due to a few simple things; either the message is in the wrong folder, your third-party mail client's settings, or your account was deactivated due to inactivity. Check your other folders. The first thing place to check if you're missing mail is to check your other folders.
The benefit of the Grosvenor gambit is supposed to come on future hands, due to a loss of concentration by the player who was taken in by the gambit. The gambit was named after Philip Grosvenor, a fictional character in a short story by Frederick B. Turner published in The Bridge World , [ 1 ] who first discovered the gambit accidentally, and ...
Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.
Additionally, Gambit & the X-Ternals, published in 1995, featured a group of renegade mutants led by Gambit who has been living on the edge of law during the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline. In 2009, Gambit's past was explored in the one-shot X-Men Origins: Gambit. In 2010, the one-shot Curse of the Mutants: Storm & Gambit was released.
If White plays an early c4, the opening will transpose to a number of more common queen pawn openings, such as the Queen's Gambit or one of the various Indian defences. The opening is named after the Mexican grandmaster Carlos Torre Repetto , who beat former World Champion Emanuel Lasker with it. [ 1 ]
Gambit appears in the novelization for X2, by Chris Claremont. [5] Gambit appears in the novel X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy. This version is a member of a detachment of the X-Men who escaped Doctor Doom's efforts to alter reality with the Cosmic Cube due to their being inside the Starlight Citadel.
The Baltic is an unusual variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD). In most defenses to the QGD, Black has difficulties developing his queen bishop. This opening takes a radical approach to the problem by bringing out the queen bishop immediately, but exposes it to the latent threat of e2-e4, for example 3. cxd5 Qxd5? 4. Nc3 Qa5 5.