Examples of using "Partidas" in a sentence and their english translations:
We've played a lot of matches this season.
I love watching soccer games.
The national team played six matches at the Copa América.
I like to watch soccer on TV.
All the tournament's matches will be streamed live on the internet.
That goalkeeper hasn't conceded a goal in the last 10 matches.
After winning all the matches, he got the title of champion.
Mary thought her eyes were playing tricks on her.
In 1985, Garry Kasparov played a simultaneous against 32 computers and won all of the games.
Problem is, once you start to get a little less oxygen, your mind starts playing tricks on you.
Chess players with prodigious memories perform incredible feats, such as playing blindly, at the same time, a large number of matches.
Fans found guilty of bad behaviour will be fined and excluded from attending future matches.
Knowing the history of big games and big tournaments makes us more interested in understanding the fascinating game of chess.
Some great chess players, like Paul Morphy, Bobby Fischer. and Mikhail Tal, left us examples of wonderful combinations they created in immortal matches.
In 1996, Garry Kasparov played a 6-game match against Deep Blue, IBM's supercomputer, and won 4 x 2.
A draw is the most frequent result of closed matches, in which each player seeks, above all, to restrict the opponent's actions.
André Danican Philidor used to play three games at the same time, two blindly and one looking at the board. Diderot and D'Alembert cited it in the Encyclopedia as "one of the most phenomenal manifestations of the human mind".
There are not many games that end with checkmate. What happens most often is abandonment, the explicit recognition of defeat, when the disadvantaged player is convinced that he can no longer afford salvation.
Deep Blue, a supercomputer created by IBM in the nineties to play chess at the highest level, was retired (destroyed?) after the second match, played in 1997, against Grandmaster Garry Kasparov. Much controversy still exists around these historical matches.
In 1951, at the Palace of Soviet Pioneers, British International Master Robert Wade played a simultaneous game with 30 local children up to 14 years old. After seven hours of play, MI Wade managed to make 10 draws, having lost the other 20 matches.
If the player deliberately touches any of his pieces, he must move it, provided he can make a valid move with it. If he deliberately touches an opponent's piece, it must be captured, if capture is legally possible. This rule applies to all formal chess competitions. Players who intend to fail to observe this rule, in friendly matches, must agree on this in advance.
In modern professional tennis, winning a big tournament is considered a greater achievement than winning several smaller tournaments of the same combined value. Hence, top players typically concentrate on bigger tournaments and only play a few smaller ones in between. Consequently, top players play and win fewer matches than before. Since Ivan Lendl won 106 out of 115 matches he played in 1982, nobody won more than 90 matches in a single season, except Roger Federer, who went 92-5 in 2006.