Word: championships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard Bridge Club beat more than 80 other teams in the recent National Bridge Championship, qualifying them to participate in the Collegiate Bridge Championship...
...Being in the finals with Harvard last year was a great experience for our kids," St. Lawrence Coach Joe Marsh says. "Going to Boston Garden last year [for the championship game], we had three or four busloads of fans. There was great excitement...
Even for devoted fans, the two-month-long world chess championship in Seville had been something of a sleeper. The games had been mostly lackluster, with all but six of the first 22 ending in a draw, as the two Soviet opponents reined in their simmering disdain for each other. But last week the chess world came awake with a jolt...
...only half a point, and would allow Karpov to regain the title that he had surrendered to Kasparov two years earlier. But in the tense match game, with an astonishing virtuosity, Kasparov forced Karpov to resign. That left the final count tied at 12 and meant he retained his championship. The feat had the capacity crowd of 700 in the ornate Teatro Lope de Vega offering a 20-minute standing ovation. One expert called it the "most dramatic finish ever seen in world- championship chess...
...board, the acrimony between the two Ks could melt pawns. Their first championship contest, in Moscow in September 1984, with an exhausted Karpov leading 5-3, ended when officials of the World Chess Federation, the sport's ruling body, stopped play for "medical" reasons. Kasparov's loud complaints about political favoritism fell on deaf ears. In their next meeting, nine months later, the challenger got his revenge. He became, at 22, the youngest champion in history. Last year in Leningrad, he retained the title, beating Karpov by one point...