Word: chess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chess Club met in Thayer 1 last evening and the following officers were elected: President, E. E. Southard '97; vice-president, A. W. Ryder '97; F. E. Thayer...
...DAVIS, 20 Ware Hall.CHESS CLUB.- Meeting at 7 in 1 Thayer Hall. Annual election of officers. Mr. P. J. Hill of the Manhattan Chess Club will play against the members of the club in a simultaneous match...
...Harvard Chess Club yesterday received a challenge from the Yale Chess Club to play two games of chess by correspondence. At the last meeting of the Chess Club it was voted that the secretary should accept such a challenge (of which notice had already been given) at once, in view of the lateness of the season. A committee composed of E. E. Southard '97, chairman, C. H. Dunn '96, and A. W. Ryder '97, has been appointed to manage the games, which are to begin at once. Harvard has white in one game and black in the other...
...CHESS CLUB.- There will be a brief preliminary business meeting and a match with the Boston Chess Club this evening at 7.30 p. m. Following men will take 7 o'clock Tremont House car for the rooms of the Boston Chess Club, 18 Boylston place, near old Public Library building, Boston: Davis, Dunn, Fay, Ffoulke, Holway, Lewis, Mumford, Peck, Ryder, Skinner, Spalding, Sprague, Thayer...
...simultaneous chess match between the Harvard Chess Club and Mr. George H. Wolcott of the Boston Chess Club resulted in a decisive win for Mr. Wolcott by a score of 8 won, 2 lost, and 2 drawn. The winners were Ffoulke and Stowell in consultation playing a French Defence, and R. McC. Marsh in an Allgoier Gambitt; the drawing players were A. W. Ryder and E. E. Southard, both in Centre Gambits. Mr. Walcott played four Allgoier Gambits, two King's Gambits straight, two King's Gambits Declined, two Centre Gambits, one Scotch Game, one French Defence...