gross blunder

Chris laughs and says: "Our dad thought he was protecting us from gross blunders.

He did not quite know what to expect from Foster beyond careful organization and an absence of gross blunders; he waited with interest.

It is not considered a defect if the diagram can only be reached via a game containing what over-the-board players would consider gross blunders.

But his edition swarms with errors, and I had the satisfaction of afterwards criticising some of the gross blunders he made.

In the game in question, in a fairly even middlegame position, Jaffe made a gross blunder which lost a queen for a rook, and then promptly resigned.

Winning on the opponent's gross blunders tells nothing about what you are capable of and that is true even if you beat Anatoly Karpov, the former world champion.

However, the Republican Party, allied with Democratic Russia, criticized the Movement's leaders for "gross blunders", blaming them for Yeltsin's perceived defeat at the Congress.

Moreover, Chuivir has influential friends among the nobility and officials, who would be affronted by our abruptly dismissing him ere he has had time to commit any gross blunder.

Caricola's gross blunder enabled the New England Revolution to beat the MetroStars, 1-0, in the first game for the new Major League Soccer in Giants Stadium.

"But if we start finding misconduct because we don't like the way a judge exercises discretion, because in retrospect his decision turns out to be a gross blunder, it's going to chill the independent judiciary.

And when, as sometimes happened - this being an example - Stephen had committed a very gross blunder, he became sad, mute and oppressed, arousing himself only to make a decent number of harmless remarks to his neighbours.

Despite these excellent results, Capablanca's play showed signs of decline: his play slowed from the speed of his youth, with occasional time trouble; although he continued to produce many superb games, he also made some gross blunders.

In a gross blunder, the report, that was supposed to contain classified information (such as the name of the other Sismi agent, the names of the soldiers involved, coalition troop movements etc.), was published in a form that allowed the censored information to be easily retrieved.

Indeed, judged by the standards of later spy literature, Holmes' act would seem an inexplicable gross blunder: having spent years of time and effort to work himself into the position of a double agent whose information is completely trusted by the Germans, Holmes for no apparent reason blows his own cover.