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Die Schachspieler (The Chess Players) Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch (December 9, 1779 – June 11, 1857) was a German painter, draughtsman, and etcher.. Retzsch was born in the Saxon capital Dresden.
Checkmate (Spanish: Jaque mate) is a 2024 Argentine action comedy film directed by Jorge Nisco from a screenplay by Leandro Calderone starring Adrián Suar. Maggie Civantos , José Eduardo Derbez , Tzachi Halevy , Benjamín Amadeo, and Charo López appear in supporting roles.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973) one episode "A Game of Chess", season 2, episode 17, features cheating in a chess tournament by using a computer. The Prisoner (1967–1968) one episode ("Checkmate") features outdoor chess using people as pieces; Land of the Giants (1968–1970). The season two episode "Deadly Pawn" features the castaways as ...
A checkmate may occur in as few as two moves on one side with all of the pieces still on the board (as in fool's mate, in the opening phase of the game), in a middlegame position (as in the 1956 game called the Game of the Century between Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer), [3] or after many moves with as few as three pieces in an endgame position.
Steve Erwin was born on January 16, 1960. [2] He studied commercial art at Oklahoma State University-Okmulgee. [1] He credited Neal Adams' Batman stories and Gene Colan's and Tom Palmer's work on Daredevil as having "won my heart in junior high to aspiring (dreaming) to be a comic book artist."
'Checkmate') is a 2014 Bangladeshi action film directed by Ashiqur Rahman and produced by Tiger Media Limited and The Abhi Pictures. The film features Arifin Shuvoo and Achol Akhe in lead roles while Misha Sawdagor plays the main antagonist in the film. [1] The film is about a police officer and his fight against corruption. [2]
Checkmate is a Ghanaian crime drama film that was written and directed by Shirley Frimpong Manso for Sparrow Productions. It was produced by Ken Attoh, features stars like Nadia Buari , Ekow Blankson , Naa Ashorkor Mensah Doku and introduced Senanu Gbedawo. [ 1 ]
In the 1995 book The Encyclopedia of Martial Arts Movies, authors Bill Palmer, Karen Palmer and Richard Meyers gave the film a score of three-and-a-half out of four stars. [1] Though criticizing the distribution title Ninja Checkmate on the grounds of there not being any ninjas depicted in the film, they wrote, "What you will see are great ...