Word: chess
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chess and Whist Club.There will be a meeting of the Chess and Whist Club tomorrow evening at seven o'clock. F. K. Young, for many years champion of New England, will give an exhibition of simultaneous play, and members are urged to be present. All members of the University are cordially invited...
Hereafter it is intended to have not only chess evenings but whist evenings as well, as the executive committee are anxious to stimulate interest in both of these most intellectual games, through out the University...
...Yale Chess Club has declined the challenge of Princeton for two correspondence games...
...Chess Club.J. F. Ryder of the Boston Chess Club played simultaneous games last night with twelve members of the Harvard Chess Club. Of these he won eight, lost three, and one game was a draw. The players with their openings were: T. Spaulding '95, French defence; A. Ingraham '96, king's gambit; A. Elson '95, sicilian; C. H. Dunn '96, Sicilian; L. B. Schoenfeld '95, French defence; G. A. Davis '95, French defence; H. S. Johnson, '96, Evans gambit; A. W. Ryder '97. French defence: S. M. Ballou L. S., Ruy Lopez; J. Hewins '96, Evans gambit; W. W. Stevens...
PIERRE LA ROSE, Sec.THERE will be a meeting of the Chess Club tonight in the D. U. Hall at 7 o'clock. Mr. Barry, champion of the Boston Chess Club, has kindly consented to give an exhibition of simultaneous play. All members of the University are invited to attend...