Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traditionally quiet atmosphere of international chess had been disturbed. One M. L. Lederer had accused Dr. Emanuel Lasker, German chess master, onetime world's champion, of employing unfair tactics for the purpose of impairing his opponents' powers to cerebrate. Specifically, Mr. Lederer had charged Dr. Lasker with 1) smoking cigars of semi-lethal composition during his matches, 2) exhaling fumes of same at strategic intervals and with unnecessary force,* 3) shouting superfluous orders at attendants, 4) being a nuisance intentionally...
Suggestions have been made that ping pong would also provide interest but as yet no set has appeared. Such slow and pacific games as checkers and chess have not even been considered...
...hawker Amschel Moses, one Maier Amschel Rothschild, barely escaped becoming a rabbi, entered instead the Oppenheimer Bank of Hanover, laboriously worked his way from clerkship to partnerhood, won the notice of Prince Wilhelm I of Hesse by his skill at chess, became the Prince's banker, begot ten children, swore his five sons upon his deathbed to carry on his business with absolute loyalty to each other and to the House of Rothschild...
With a clean sweep on all four boards in the final match with West Point, Princeton nosed out Harvard for the championship of the newly formed Quadrangular Class League in their annual tournament held at the Manhattan Chess Club on December 27, 28, and 29. In one of the closest finishes in the history of the meeting, Princeton overcame Harvard's early lead to win by half a point. This victory, which was the first for Princeton in 15 years, gives them possession of the Belden-Stevens' trophy...
...chief guests were Edward Lasker, chess wizard,* and a swarthy gentleman whom he had found in Manhattan, a gentleman with a queer eye and rapt manner, Ascander Khaldah Bey of Egypt. Mr. Khaldah performed some feats for Mr. Rosenwald and his guests that made them not only curious but distinctly uneasy...