counterplay

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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 in this line must generate queenside counterplay to stave off White’s methodically building kingside attack, but some time-wasting moves by Black’s queen put Yip in the hole after 19.

From Washington Times • Jan. 2, 2024

White has picked up a second pawn and her knights prevent the Black rooks from generating any counterplay.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2023

White gets some annoying queenside pressure and Black must scramble to gin up some kingside counterplay.

From Washington Times • Apr. 4, 2023

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