Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bearing the frail Students Association bumped the ground and our rival toppled off the plank altogether, bequeathing in its last gasp its residuaries (all bad bargains) to our committee. This year, then, we found on our hands a spacious Students Room to be maintained and bountifully stocked with chess men and checkers, The American Mercury and perhaps some other magazines of no concern...
...intercollegiate chess tournament F. R. Chevalier '29, playing the most consistent game in the competition, won the individual honor with a record of five straight victories...
...tournament was played at the Manhattan Chess Club in New York and T. H. Vance of Yale came second...
More than a month of taciturn struggle at the Hotel Manhattan Square, Manhattan, served to prove U. S. chess brains are currently inferior to foreign. First prize ($2,000) in the International Chess Masters' Tournament was awarded to Jose R. Capablanca, Havana; second ($1,500) to Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Paris; third ($1,000) to Aron Nimzowitch, Copenhagen. Frank J. Marshall, New York, lone U. S. entry, had continuous difficulty with his cerebellum; finished last among the careful movers...
Following this categorical denial, Dr. Lasker struck back with a sensational countercharge. He asserted that on his last appearance in this country evil hands had tampered with the chess-clock, a two-faced affair intended for impartial allotment of thinking-time to the combatants. The clock, wrote Dr. Lasker, used in his match with José Capablanca, present world's champion, had unquestionably been "jimmied." Capablanca had received therefrom long, comfortable contemplation-periods; he (Lasker) had been rushed into illadvised, catastrophical decisions. What kind of etiquette had this been? Dr. Lasker's answer was published while six international...