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"ref": "1913, The British Chess Magazine, volume 33, Trubner & Company, page 51:",
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"ref": "1989, Raymond Keene, The Simon & Schuster Pocket Book of Chess, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 183:",
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"ref": "1998, George W. Atkinson, Chess and Machine Intuition, Intellect, →ISBN, page 35:",
"text": "Harry Golombek, who had returned from Argentina with the British chess team but spent two years in the infantry before joining B.P., occasionally played chess with Turing, giving Queen odds in order to make the game more equal.",
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"ref": "2016 November 27, Oliver Roeder, “The World Chess Championship Comes Down To The Final Game”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:",
"text": "And finally, if those are tied, they'll play a final sudden-death game, using a format known as armageddon. In armageddon, black gets \"time odds\": White gets five minutes while black gets just four, but a draw counts as a win for black.",
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"ref": "2018 September 23, Binit Priyaranjan, “Queens on the Board, Pawns in the Sport – the Underrepresentation of Women in Chess”, in The Wire, archived from the original on 2021-05-06:",
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"ref": "2021, Larry Kaufman, Chess Board Options, New in Chess, →ISBN:",
"text": "The most important handicap historically is knight odds, because it produces play more similar to a normal game than handicaps like f7 and multiple moves, while still being a suitable handicap for rather strong players.",
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"ref": "2022 October 31, Luci Kelemen, “Nakamura wins 2022 Fischer Random Chess Championship, Carlsen slides to top-four finish”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-12-17:",
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"expansion": "odds m (definite singular oddsen, indefinite plural odds, definite plural oddsa)",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Norwegian Nynorsk entries with incorrect language header",
"Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas",
"Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns",
"Norwegian Nynorsk nouns",
"Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from English",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"odds"
],
"links": [
[
"odds",
"odds#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"word": "odds"
}
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{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": šánsy vs. šáns",
"path": [
"odds"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "odds",
"trace": ""
}
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