Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport. It has been described...
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humorous books on how to secure an unfair advantage began in 1947 with Gamesmanship, purporting to show how poor players can beat better ones by subtle psychological...
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1960s, "Schweppeshire", was written by Stephen Potter, the inventor of gamesmanship. Another campaign, voiced by British actor William Franklyn, made use...
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Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott and Alastair Sim. It was inspired by the Gamesmanship series of books by Stephen Potter. The film has been remade twice: in...
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self-reported, sometimes fraudulent data by the institutions, encourage gamesmanship by institutions looking to improve their rank, imply a false precision...
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Champions League fortunes won't change until the club changes its zero-sum gamesmanship". Yahoo! Sports. 6 March 2019. Archived from the original on 7 March...
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mournful, drenched-in-shame emotions of child abuse with the huckster gamesmanship of a contraption like The Sting." David Ansen of Newsweek criticized...
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in the second round 6–3. After the match, he accused Ratajski of sly gamesmanship after he sipped from his drink twice. In a rematch from the UK Open,...
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second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by the gamesmanship of his opponents, in particular W. G. Grace, refused to give in. "This...
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England, he was also one of the most controversial on account of his gamesmanship and moneymaking. He played first-class cricket for a record-equalling...
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farcical sex, perhaps the best-known ancient comedy motivated by sexual gamesmanship is Aristophanes' Lysistrata (411 BC), in which the title character persuades...
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words on which Roth's generation was brought up—winning, patriotism, gamesmanship—are desanctified; greed, fear, racism, and political ambition are disclosed...
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£21,500 for a combination of 'Bringing the sport into disrepute and gamesmanship' in the final and for his Quarter-final clash with Simon Whitlock. Price...
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something of poor quality. Shithouse or Shit house may also refer to: Gamesmanship, colloquially known as "shithousing" in the United Kingdom Shithouse...
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122 wins are 52 more than runner-up Graves. Spurrier was known for his gamesmanship while coaching Florida, doing such things as giving much-derided Georgia...
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Potter, published in 1952 as a follow-up to The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship (or the Art of Winning Games without Actually Cheating) (1947). Other...
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USA PATRIOT ACT II: Public Sentiments, Legislative Climate, Political Gamesmanship, Media Patriotism". International Journal of the Sociology of Law 34...
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powergamer, often seeing more of the world than the "average" player would. Gamesmanship Powerleveling Min-maxing Twinking Taylor, T.L. (2003). "Power Gamers...
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match, an alternate shot event. Azinger and Beck accused Ballesteros of gamesmanship on account of his throat clearing during Beck's shots. Later in the same...
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Blood replacement (section Gamesmanship)
In both rugby union and rugby league, a blood replacement (also referred to as a blood substitution or blood bin) is a special kind of substitution which...
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and [inability] to confirm artillery and aerial kills.' The 'shameful gamesmanship' practiced by 'certain reporting elements' under pressure to 'produce...
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detriment Fair Play Award (disambiguation) Fair Play Trophy (disambiguation) Gamesmanship Football War Ultimate (sport) Unsportsmanlike conduct Unwritten rules...
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to mislead baserunners about the location of the ball, are considered gamesmanship and are not in violation of the rules. Pitchers have long doctored baseballs...
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together with the Peter principle, Parkinson's Law and Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship series as "P-literature". The book proposes Putt's Law and Putt's Corollary...
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viewed within the international chess playing community as an act of gamesmanship on the part of Topalov and Danailov, attempting to distract Kramnik at...
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"the Army is showing it prefers generals who are good at bureaucratic gamesmanship to ones who can think innovatively on the battlefield," and some saw...
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4–3 in a controversial game, with Anderson accusing his opponent of gamesmanship. Anderson then whitewashed Devon Petersen to reach the eighth PDC World...
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VH1's reality program Kept. Fuller appeared as herself in the episode "Gamesmanship". Fuller has collaborated with Delerium, performing her own track "Touched"...
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Sunrise may be the closest an American has come to the discursive talk gamesmanship of Eric Rohmer". Online film critic James Berardinelli has cited the...
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questions and answers for later students to use as references. This sort of gamesmanship, Snyder argued, hindered development of a creative intellect and contributed...
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