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...highlights of the day for Harvard was junior Becky Christensen’s performance. Christensen, who finished 10th in the outdoor high jump at the NCAA championship meet last season, cleared 1.80 meters in this indoor event, provisionally qualifying her for nationals in indoor track this season...
Having won the Ivy League championship last season, the Harvard players realize that opposing teams have an added incentive to win when they visit Lavieties...
...last time the Harvard men’s tennis team went more than two consecutive seasons without winning the Ivy League title was 1980. The 2007 Crimson showed that it is prepared to leave that dubious distinction to the 1980 squad and retake the Ivy League championship with a brilliant first performance of the spring tennis season at the Columbia Classic last weekend.The eight Harvard players at the tournament amassed a 16-8 collective record, with three—junior co-captain Chris Clayton, senior Ashwin Kumar, and junior Sasha Ermakov—reaching the semifinals of the 16 player...
...admire his game. At the hallowed Moscow Central Chess Club, top Soviet players gathered to analyze Fischer's crushing 1971 match defeat of one of their colleagues, Mark Taimanov. Someone suggested that Taimanov could have gained the upper hand with a queen move, to which David Bronstein, a world-championship challenger in 1951, replied, "Ah, but we don't know what Fischer would have done...
...World War II, the once strong U.S. chess tradition had largely faded. There was little chess culture, few schools to nurture and train young talent. So for an American player to reach world-championship level in the 1950s required an obsessive degree of personal dedication. Fischer's triumph over the Soviet chess machine, culminating in his 1972 victory over Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland, demanded even more...