Having won the Candidates Tournament, Petrosian earned the right to challenge Mikhail Botvinnik for the title of World Chess Champion in a 24-game match.

The winner of the Candidates tournament would play a 24-game match with the World Champion the following year, and need to win outright to gain the title.

As a rookie, Carrasquel hit for a career-high. 282 batting average in 141 games and, amassed a 24-game hitting streak until Red Sox pitcher Ellis Kinder stopped the streak.

After returning, he suffered another knee injury, resulting in a shortened 24-game season, in which Koivu recorded 21 points.

* Had a 24-game hitting streak spanning the last game of 2005 and his first 23 games of 2006.

The 2009 – 10 Bears won a franchise-record 12 consecutive games and notched a 24-game win streak at the Giant Center.

He also collected a 24-game go-ahead RBI string, matched a club record by reaching base 11 consecutive times, set a career-high and a club record and matched the American League record with six hits, and joined Ichiro Suzuki as only Mariners ever with two five-hit games in one season.

After a long drought dating back to Jordan's departure, the Bulls returned to the playoffs and posted the third-best record in the Eastern Conference, a 24-game improvement from the previous year.

Leyland led Detroit to a 24-game improvement in the regular season, an AL pennant and a World Series appearance in 2006.

Along with a 24-game hitting streak in 1930 and a 25-game streak in 1933, Lindstrom also ranks among the all-time top 10 in lifetime strikeouts to batting average ratio, 276 strikeouts to. 311 batting average in 6, 104 plate appearances.

They consistently placed at or near the bottom of the Central Division in between, but their 47-35 season in 2005 was a 24-game improvement from 2004.

The pitching staff was led by 24-game winner Wood, whom Tanner had converted from a reliever to a starter.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

A match is started by a randomly chosen side being given the opportunity to throw a smaller ball, the jack ( called a boccino or pallino in some areas ), from one end of the court into a zone in length, ending from the far end of the court.

The New Zealand team started every match with the Haka, and Welsh Rugby Union administrator Tom Williams, suggested that Wales player Teddy Morgan lead the crowd in the singing of the anthem as a response.

Cronje started the ODI series with scores of 112, 97, 45 and 50 * and when Australia played Orange Free State in their final match before the first Test, Cronje hit 251 off 306 balls, 200 of these came on the final day in which 294 runs were added.

In 1968, during his sophomore year at MIT, Kurzweil started a company that used a computer program to match high school students with colleges.

Competitions were held around tracks of varying lengths — the 1885 match between Axel Paulsen and Remke van der Zee was skated on a track of 6 / 7 mile ( 1400 metres )— but the 400 metre track was standardised by the ISU in 1892, along with the standard distances for world championships, 500 m, 1500 m, 5000 m and 10, 000 m. Skaters started in pairs, each to their own lane, and changed lanes for every lap to ensure that each skater completed the same distance.

This was the first time they had won in England since the match that started the Ashes legend six years earlier.

She retired from the match because of a back injury sustained before the match started.

Fans outside could hear cheering as the teams came on the pitch ten minutes before the match started and as the match kicked off, but could not gain entry.

A successful match won a jackpot which started at $ 500 and increased by $ 100 per day until won.

* Anatoly Karpov vs Boris Spassky, Candidates ' match, Leningrad 1974, game 1, Sicilian Defence, Scheveningen Variation ( B83 ), 0 – 1 Spassky lost the match, but he started strongly with this fine win.

Albright and Wilson developed a safe means of making commercial quantities of phosphorus sesquisulfide in the United Kingdom in 1899 and started selling it to match manufacturers.

Teenager Iker Muniain also started almost every match, mostly on the left wing, where he could use his trickery to supply Llorente and his support striker Gaizka Toquero.

Taylor started nervously in the second innings, but went on to score of 129, which saved his career, but not the match.

Australia started well by taking a 71-run first innings lead in the First Test at Chennai, but Sachin Tendulkar's unbeaten 155 put Australia under pressure to save the match on the final day.

After it was canceled in 2007, the LPGA was without a match play event until the Sybase Match Play Championship was started in 2010.

The Middlesex Agricultural and Growers ' Association held annual ploughing matches in Heathrow, until the last, the 99th, was held on 28 September 1937 ; the 100th match ( in 1938 ) was postponed to 1939 due to severe drought, and in 1939 it was cancelled because WWII had started.

This sort of use slowly disappeared as well, as more general-purpose CPUs started to match the i860's performance, and as Intel turned its focus to Pentium processors for general-purpose computing.

United have also been knocked out by Southend United and Coventry City in 2006 – 07 and 2007 – 08 respectively: in the match against Southend they fielded a strong side, bucking a trend they had themselves started.

The 2007 – 08 season started well with a draw at home against champions Internazionale, but the enthusiasm was quickly erased after the first home match which finished in a 5 – 0 loss to newly-promoted Napoli.

Unlike many boxers, Norton would often not attempt to outstare an opponent before the match started as announcements were made.

He attained a reputation for brawn and audacity after a very competitive wrestling match to which he was challenged by the renowned leader of a group of ruffians, " the Clary's Grove boys ".

Exterior " latex " house paints may also be a " co-polymer " blend, but the very best exterior water-based paints are 100 % acrylic, due to elasticity and others, but 100 percent acrylic resins cost double as much as vinyl and PVA ( polyvinyl acetate ) is even cheaper, so paint companies make many combinations of them to match the market.

They have been measured in detail, and match what would be expected if small thermal variations, generated by quantum fluctuations of matter in a very tiny space, had expanded to the size of the observable universe we see today.

A good checksum algorithm will yield a different result with high probability when the data is accidentally corrupted ; if the checksums match, the data is very likely to be free of accidental errors.

Animal costumes which are visually very similar to mascot costumes are also popular among the members of the furry fandom where they are referred to as fursuits that match ones animal persona, or fursona.

The team under Bobby Robson fared better as England reached the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup, losing 2 – 1 to Argentina in a game made famous by two goals by Maradona for very contrasting reasons, before losing every match at the Euro 88 tournament.

This explains why in very short periods of time we see prices spiking or bubbles exploding, because prices are less and less determined by the real match between supply and demand.

After renormalization, calculations using Feynman diagrams match experimental results with very high accuracy.

As the trigger ( often actually a lever ) was pulled, the match was brought into the open end of a " touch hole " at the base of the gun barrel, which contained a very small quantity of gunpowder, igniting the main charge of gunpowder in the gun barrel.

He scored four goals in an England match on two occasions and is one of very few players never to have been given a yellow card or a red card in any type of game.

Since very few actual implementations of heat engines exactly match their underlying thermodynamic cycles, one could say that a thermodynamic cycle is an ideal case of a mechanical engine.

The British demanded that the number of Jewish recruits match the number of Palestinian Arab recruits but very few Arabs were willing to fight for Britain.

The crystal orientation of the layer can be engineered to match that of the target, even though the exact crystal structure and lattice constant may be very different.

On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.

* In dances danced in body contact ( Waltz, Tango ) it is very important to recover the feet match.

The conquest of the whole of Mesopotamia and much surrounding territory by the Assyrians created a larger and wealthier state than the region had known before, and very grandiose art in palaces and public places, no doubt partly intended to match the splendour of the art of the neighbouring Egyptian empire.

It is very likely that further investigations will push back the Sri Lankan lower boundary to match that of South India.

The ruins of the palace at Yakkagala as described in the book very closely match the real-life ruins at Sigiriya in Sri Lanka.

That year, the introduction of a new offensive skill, the backrow attack, allowed Poland to win the men's competition over the Soviets in a very tight five-set match.

For example, Rae points out that the statisticians are right to criticise Victorian compilers for " including minor matches to enable Grace to reach certain milestones "; but he also respects the view of Grace's contemporaries that " any match in which he played was elevated in status by his very presence ".

The level of naturalness of these systems can be very high because the variety of sentence types is limited, and they closely match the prosody and intonation of the original recordings.

Jakovich was one of the very few players who could match Carey for strength in a one-on-one contest and as a result he was often able to limit Carey's dominance.

50 Ω also works out well because it corresponds very closely to the drive impedance of a half-wave dipole in real environments, and provides an acceptable match to the drive impedance of a quarter-wave monopole, as well.

However, very few instruments can be adjusted to exactly match the standards they are compared to.

However if the DNA evidence is the sole evidence against the accused and the accused was picked out of a large database of DNA profiles, the jurors should consider the very likely possibility that the match is just a coincidence and the accused is innocent.