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  • See miniature. brilliancy A game that contains a spectacular, deep and beautiful strategic idea, combination, or original plan. brilliancy prize A prize...
    261 KB (24,743 words) - 14:48, 3 November 2024
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    of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, "Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so...
    43 KB (4,807 words) - 07:41, 7 November 2024
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    The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games and Modern Chess Brilliancies include more games by Tal than any other player. He also held the record...
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    of the total solar eclipse approached, " ... I recorded an increasing brilliancy in the spectrum in the neighborhood of D, so great in fact as to prevent...
    146 KB (16,163 words) - 23:03, 22 October 2024
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    morning appearances), is often given to the Devil in popular stories. The brilliancy of the morning star—which appears brighter than all other stars, but is...
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    ISBN 9780292726307. Retrieved May 25, 2022 – via Google Books. Marc Moscato, Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago (2009) Hall, Lesley A. (1996)...
    114 KB (14,590 words) - 07:12, 30 October 2024
  • second edition of the tournament was held in 2021. Gazprom sponsored a brilliancy prize for the event, with the judges being 14 popular streamers and YouTubers:...
    7 KB (268 words) - 05:18, 24 September 2024
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    in the Babylonian myth of Etana. The Jewish Encyclopedia comments: The brilliancy of the morning star, which eclipses all other stars, but is not seen during...
    74 KB (7,486 words) - 08:35, 9 November 2024
  • 卿雲爛兮,糺縵縵兮。日月光華,旦復旦兮。 "How bright is the Auspicious Cloud, How broad is its brilliancy. The light is spectacular with sun or moon, How it revives dawn after...
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    was enthusiastically received. Reviewers said, "in subtlety of thought, brilliancy of wit and sparkling humour, it has scarcely been excelled"; and "its...
    94 KB (10,922 words) - 10:44, 14 November 2024
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    trifles in comparison to the wealth of character he portrayed, to his brilliancy of wit, and to the resourcefulness of his technique. He was wary of sensibility...
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    Fischer could only score 4½/11, tying for 8th–9th place. Yet he won the brilliancy prize for his game against International Master Donald Byrne, in which...
    225 KB (26,330 words) - 02:53, 13 November 2024
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    to acquire execution must have been tremendous; but the volubility and brilliancy, when acquired, gained a character of their own... There were a breadth...
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    problem was in part attributed to his inheritance of impulsiveness and brilliancy from his "emotionally and ill-balanced" parents. Nevins said Frémont was...
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    what is widely regarded as his masterpiece, Kasparov unleashes multiple brilliancies as he hunts down Black's king from one side of the board to another,...
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    on 22 May 2021. Retrieved 22 May 2021. Moscato, Marc (2009). Brains, Brilliancy, Bohemia: Art & Politics in Jazz-Age Chicago. Gill, Anton (1994). A Dance...
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    it rested. Between 12 and 1 o'clock, when the display was at its full brilliancy, the quiet streets of the city resting under this strange light, presented...
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    Capablanca had been allowed to participate. Capablanca was awarded the Brilliancy Prize for this game. In 1912, Bernstein took 2nd, behind Rubinstein, at...
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    sixth, but his win over Augustus Mongredien was awarded the tournament's brilliancy prize. He immediately challenged the fifth-placed contestant, the strong...
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    when too heavy, and for tints in drapery, etc. Capable, by its superior brilliancy and contrast, to subdue the brightness of other blues." Cobalt blue has...
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