Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buenos Aires 32 small statues stood upon a polished piece of wood. Sixteen of them were white; behind these sat a middle-aged Cuban, Jose Raul Capablanca, chess champion of the world. Behind the other 16, which were black, sat Alexander Alekhine, a Russian nobleman, who, for a prize of $10,000 offered by the Argentines, wished to beat the champion. A crowd surrounded the two men. The voices in the crowd became a whisper, then a silence...
...take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After the longest match in chess history?74 nights?there was a new champion...
...frequently happens," said Dr. Erickson to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, "That an insignificant pawn becomes the deciding factor in the great chess game of nations; chess however is child's play compared to the complexities of Balkan politics. Because of her helplessness, her half-developed state, her strategic location, a blow at Albania shakes the entire body of Europe...
...University chess team, led by F. R. Chevalier '29, playing first board, will engage in a battle of wits tonight against the Yale aggregation, in one of the several contests this week end between the Crimson and the Blue...
...meet, which will begin at 7.30 o'clock, following a dinner at the Liberal Club, the University chess players will play in the following order: Captain Chevalier, Leo Palier 21, B. J. Reines '28, G. F. Gravells '28, President of the club, Gordon Berry, F. B. Robinson '31, E. J. Davis '29, A. W. Couiman 1G.Ed., H. B. Wells '29, and John Benson...