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The Noah's Ark Trap is a family of traps in the Ruy Lopez chess opening in which a white bishop is trapped on the b3-square by black pawns. [1] The origin of the name is uncertain. The shape of the black pawns on a6, b5, and c4 may resemble an ark, or the name may suggest that the trap is "as old as Noah's Ark". [2]
In chess, a trap is a move which tempts the opponent to play a bad move. [1] Traps are common in all phases of the game; in the opening , some traps have occurred often enough that they have acquired names.
Trap is a 2024 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan.Starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Shyamalan’s daughter Saleka Night Shyamalan (in her feature film debut), Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill, it follows a serial killer (Hartnett) evading a police blockade while attending a concert with his daughter (Donoghue).
It's called Noah's Ark because the Black pawns on a6, b5, c5 and d6 look like a boat. It's a trap because White has to be careful of: X. ... c4 Morten Isaksen 08:38, 10 November 2011 (UTC) I thought it was because the bishop becomes trapped by the pawns like how those left behind got trapped by the falling rain.
Pit for hunting wolves, near Hohenwart, Bavaria, Germany. Trapping pits are deep pits dug into the ground, or built from stone, in order to trap animals. European rock drawings and cave paintings reveal that bear, moose and wolf were hunted since the Stone Age using trapping pits.
Cliff recorded "Trapped" as a single that was released in 1972. [1] It was released on Island Records and backed with "Struggling Man", [2] although some websites list the two reversed in some markets (the record saw release in areas that included the United Kingdom, Ghana, and the Caribbean region, but not the United States). [3]
Dagblaðið Vísir reported on 2 May 2015 that Trapped is the most expensive television series ever made in Iceland, with overall costs estimated to be about 1,000,000,000 ISK (€6,500,000 EUR). Before this, most Icelandic television series rarely exceeded production costs of 100–200,000,000 ISK. [2]
Redemption Ark is a 2002 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe. It continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories " Great Wall of Mars " and " Glacial ".