Word: chess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HUNTINGTON, Sec.CHESS CLUB-The weekly meeting of the Harvard Chess Club will be held at 7 o'clock tonight in Thayer 1. All that wish to be considered for the chess team should hand their names to one of the executive committee. Second-round players in the late tournament need not formally speak for places...
Although all the games have not yet been played, E. E. Southard '97 has won the chess tournament, winning 81/2 games out of 9 played. There are three men tied for second place, J. W. Peck '96, A. W. Ryder '97, and T. Spaulding, L. S., who have each won five games out of seven and have two more games to play. The winners of this match will play L. H. Lewis '96, if he is defeated by Southard; if Lewis is not defeated by Southard, he and Southard will go to New York during the Christmas holidays to play...
...meeting of the Chess Club last evening the changes in tournament business suggested by the committee were ratified, viz., that the winners in the first round form a single final section, the players in which shall be eligible in the order of their scores for the intercollegiate tournament...
Following are the rules and drawings for the chess tournament: Each man must play one game with each of the other men in his section, and leave all of his scores at 1 Thayer before 6 o'clock Tuesday evening, Oct. 22. All games are to be played under a time limit of fifteen moves to the hour unless both players agree otherwise. The two highest from each section will go up into the second round...
...excellent standard throughout his course, receiving a dissertation upon graduation. While at Cambridge, Bates identified himself with many undergraduates, social and working organizations, and took a prominent part also in athletics. He was a member of the Institute of 1770, of the Exeter Club, the Southern Club, of the Chess and Whist Club, of the Electrical Club, St. Paul's Society, the Fencing Club, Shooting Club, the Harvard Union, was vice-president of the Reform Club, a director of the Memorial Hall Dining Association, and played on the University Cricket team. He was '92's representative in the mile walk...