counterplay

Example Sentences

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It isn’t as if Google has become some sort of AI counterplay.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025

Black rightly seeks queenside counterplay but can’t shake White’s single-minded focus on checkmate on the other wing: 19.

From Washington Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Kh1 Bc8, and snuffs out White’s still-dangerous counterplay by cleverly exploiting Aronian’s back-rank weaknesses: 45.

From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2023

With his rook largely a non-factor, Black has no good way to defend the a-pawn, and Ding methodically increases his advantage as his opponent grows more desperate for counterplay.

From Washington Times • Jul. 5, 2022

As he rode through the forest he rehearsed every scheme of counterplay and every method that made for conquest which his fertile brain had conceived.

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn