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Chess, even for novices, is essentially a social game and has been for the millennia humans have played it. People play chess in front of Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square on warm summer nights as much for the company as for the game itself. Indeed, for the vast majority of chess players worldwide who don't play professionally, chess' social dynamic is the game's purpose...
...does deserve a more critical look, and not the unabashed enthusiasm everything e-related receives now. Before we rush to wire every classroom to the Internet, before we give our business to amazon.com instead of the local book store, before we pack our bags and bid au revoir to the real world, we eventually need to decide whether the cost of the convenience, in terms of human interaction, might be too great...
...Acronym for the fast-food bakery Au Bon Pain, where croissants, chess enthusiasts and tourists abound just beyond the Yard's wrought-iron gates...
...while the Square 25 years ago and the Square today still share that same distinctive Saturday-afternoon feel--when street musicians send melodies into the air and crowds gather to watch the chess matches in front of Au Bon Pain--members of the Class of 1974 also remember a city that was comfortably eccentric. It did not have the "edge" that Charles M. Sullivan, head of the Cambridge Historical Commission, says he sees today...
...while the Square 25 years ago and the Square today still share that same distinctive Saturday-afternoon feel-when street musicians send melodies into the air and crowds gather to watch the chess matches in front of Au Bon Pain--members of the Class of 1974 also remember a city that was comfortably eccentric without having the "edge" that Charles M. Sullivan, head of the Cambridge Historical Commission, says he sees today...