It was Australia's second consecutive innings defeat in a wet summer, and the hosts were in strong positions in the two drawn Tests, in which half the playing time was washed out.

At a casino blackjack table, the dealer faces five to seven playing positions from behind a semicircular table.

The change from gut to steel has also affected the instrument's playing technique over the last hundred years, because playing with steel strings allows the strings to be set up closer to the fingerboard, and, additionally, steel strings can be played in higher positions on the lower strings and still produce clear tone.

In addition to playing the diatonic harmonica in its original key, it is also possible to play it in other keys by playing in other " positions " using different keynotes.

When rehearsing drill, positions and maneuvers are usually learned without playing the music simultaneously – a common technique for learning drill is to have members sing their parts or march to a recording produced during a music rehearsal.

In an incredible run of form over 6 games between rounds 4 and 10, Carey averaged 12 marks, 27 disposals and 3. 5 goals per game, playing in a variety of positions.

Chess strategy ( or positional play ) is the aspect of chess playing concerned with evaluation of chess positions and setting of goals and long-term plans for future play.

Other techniques: The vibraphone solo " Mourning Dove Sonnet ," composed by Christopher Deane, utilizes a four mallet grip with two cello ( or bass ) bows held where the outer mallets would be, a yarn mallet for the main melodic playing and a plastic mallet for pitch bending in the inner positions.

He was a versatile player, playing in numerous positions during his career.

The first ball to be introduced was the Quaffle, then a leather ball quite similar to the modern Quaffle, and hence the only playing positions were Chaser and Keeper.

Several players began the campaign playing in unfamiliar positions, including World Cup-winning midfielder Javi Martínez, who was deployed as a ball-playing central defender and Óscar de Marcos, who despite being known as a midfielder was used in several matches at left-back.

A player will be able to at least force a draw ( by playing forever without losing ) from the remaining 2267 positions.

It has been theorized that the placement of the sixty sexagenary terms on the points of the Liubo divination diagram indicate the possible positions for placing pieces when playing Liubo, and that the sequence of the terms across the divination diagram reflects the path to be followed around the board when playing the game ( starting at the north-east corner and ending at the north side of the central square ).

* Germany, already heavily involved in the internal Ottoman politics, officially opposed a war against the Empire, but in her effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was playing with the idea to replace the Balkan positions of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in her San Stefano borders, an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

While not of general utility in most playing circumstances, it greatly aids the analysis of certain classes of positions.

Game playing programs work by analyzing millions of positions that could arise in the next few moves of the game.

The 2002 Cup tournament proper was played with two groups of four teams ( again in round-robin style ), which led into a 4-way knockout stage, playing for the top four positions.

But in its effort to win Bulgaria for the Central Powers, and seeing the inevitability of Ottoman disintegration, was playing with the idea to replace the Balkan positions of the Ottomans with a friendly Greater Bulgaria in its San Stefano borders — an idea that was based on the German origin of the Bulgarian King and his anti-Russian sentiments.

Wallace successfully quelled the Bombers ' scoring power and defeated the team which had won the previous 20 games by playing 14 of the 18 men on the field in the defensive zone for the entirety of the game, and often with all 18 players taking up positions in the 50 metre arc.

Allen Ezail Iverson ( born June 7, 1975 ) is an American professional basketball player, playing both the point guard and shooting guard positions.

This gives Black the possibility of playing ... e5 at some point to completely liquidate the centre, although the resulting positions are rather drawish.

The five basic steps are found equally well whether we are talking about an earthquake, a submarine using sonar to locate its foe, or a band playing in a rock concert.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

Inspired by a concert where he saw John Lee Hooker perform, he supplemented his work as a carpenter and mechanic with a developing career playing on street corners with friends, including Jerome Green ( c. 1934 – 1973 ), in a band called The Hipsters ( later The Langley Avenue Jive Cats ).

During the concert, Moon passed out on his drum kit while the band was playing the song " Won't Get Fooled Again ".

Milford later performed in the first concert tour of Jesus Christ Superstar playing Jesus and Judas.

On 13 July 1985, Page, Plant and Jones reunited for the Live Aid concert at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, playing a short set featuring drummers Tony Thompson and Phil Collins and bassist Paul Martinez.

They're the ones who did the first real big arena concert shows, consistently selling out and playing stadiums without support.

In the 1960s, Lyon & Healy introduced a smaller lever harp, the " Troubadour ", a 36-string harp that is designed for young beginners, who have smaller hands and may find playing a concert harp difficult, as well as hobbyists.

The most common is the pupil's concert, which gives experience in playing in public and under a certain degree of pressure, without outright criticism or a more or less arbitrary marking system.

While the Pixies were playing a concert with Throwing Muses, they were noticed by producer Gary Smith, manager of Fort Apache Studios.

When the Nazis occupied Denmark during World War II, Borge was playing a concert in Sweden, and managed to escape to Finland.

* August 15 – The Beatles perform the first stadium concert in the history of rock, playing before 55, 600 persons at Shea Stadium in New York City.

On 23 May 2012, The Stone Roses held their first public concert since their reunion, playing an 11-song set before 1000 fans at Parr Hall in Warrington.

In 1998, the duo appeared at Luciano Pavarotti's benefit concert with May performing " Too Much Love Will Kill You " with Pavarotti, later playing " Radio Ga Ga ", " We Will Rock You ", and " We Are the Champions " with Zucchero.

2008 saw the band in Eindhoven Netherlands playing at E-Day ( an electronic music festival ); later in the year they also played the Night of the Prog Festival in Loreley, Germany, as well as concerts at the Kentish Town Forum, in London on 1 November, at the Picture House, Edinburgh on 2 November, and their first live concert in the USA for over a decade, at the UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles on 7 November.

Clapton spoke of a concert during which he stopped playing and neither Baker nor Bruce noticed.

The audience was reported to be impressed with his playing, thus beginning one of the outstandingly successful concert pianist careers of the period.

However, when Fish headlined the ' Hobble on the Cobbles ' free concert in Aylesbury's Market Square on 26 August 2007, the attraction of playing their debut single in its spiritual home proved strong enough to overcome any lingering bad feeling between the former band members, and Kelly, Mosley, Rothery, and Trewavas replaced Fish's backing band for an emotional encore of ' Market Square Heroes '.

Instruments that " transpose at the octave " are not playing in a different key from concert pitch instruments, but sound an octave higher or lower than written.

The concert received mixed reviews and critics claimed that the band should have done something extraordinary at the concert, instead of playing more or less the same setlist as in the 2002 tour.

Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt — already facing criticism related to his alleged hostility to environmentalism and his support of the development and use of federal lands by foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests, and for banning The Beach Boys from playing a 1983 Independence Day concert on the National Mall out of concerns of attracting " an undesirable element "— resigned abruptly after a September 21, 1983, speech in which he said about his staff: " I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.

Segovia's first public performance was in Spain at the age of 16 in 1909, and a few years later he held his first professional concert in Madrid, playing works by Francisco Tárrega and some guitar transcriptions by J. S.