Endgame

//ˈɛnd.ɡeɪm//

"Endgame" in a Sentence (21 examples)

That endgame boiled down to the confrontation between a good bishop, that is one who had good squares to move on, and a bad bishop, that is one who had his movement options restricted by its own pawns.

Mark Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual is regarded as one of the best books ever published on the endgame.

The king is strongest in the endgame, when there are only a few pieces left and it can help checkmate the opponent or win pieces.

In a rook endgame, each side has only a rook, a few pawns, and the king. This is the most common type of endgame.

A very difficult endgame – white rook, knight, and three pawns (Carlsen) against the black queen and a pawn (Nepomniachtchi) – was won yesterday after 136 moves and almost eight hours of play. The engines said it was a theoretical draw but the brilliant Norwegian managed to conquer the victory. A historical game!

Game one in the FIDE World Championship 2023 between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren ended in a draw. Nepo with the white pieces went for Ruy Lopez, while Ding replied with Morphy’s Defense, and the game entered an equal minor pieces endgame.

Most of the players are rushing to enjoy endgame content, while I'm sitting here at the auction house enjoying the game of arbitrage: buying items cheaply when I notice them, then reselling them to other players at slightly under the normal price, and enjoying the profit. Is this really gaming? Hey, I'm having fun with it, so why not?

Rooks become much more important in the endgame.

The real end game consists of a position where the method can be analytically demonstrated by which the slightly superior force can win.

You can't really use squeeze plays until the endgame.

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Bridge writing tends to concentrate on the end game.

Being stuck with two V tiles can make for an awkward Scrabble endgame.

What's his endgame, do you think?

He had been a Commando during the war, had landed on Sword Beach and skirmished his way across the ravaged remains of Europe after D-Day before slogging out the endgame, attached to the 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment.

Like optics, it’s one of those buzzwords, beloved by pundits, that implies its users are smarter than everyone else, because they see another level that most people don’t in political machinations. In meme parlance, you may ask “Why?” but ah, an intellectual asks, “What’s the endgame?”

It is time for the United States and its allies to get directly involved in shaping Ukraine’s strategic objectives, managing the conflict, and seeking a diplomatic endgame.

Listener endgames have included […] shading every instance of the letters N - Z in the completed grid to reveal a 'normal' blocked crossword hidden in the one just solved

What do you look for in an Advanced Cryptic crossword? […] Good balance of clues and endgame

TJLC’ers’ strong belief in Johnlock as endgame was intrinsically linked with their trust in the show’s creators, which enabled them to interpret the repeated denial of the subtext in Sherlock as part of the game.

I think the fans and I were pretty aligned with who we wanted as endgame couples.

One user, for example, posted, “Bughead haters can suck it. They’re endgame.”

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