Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Locke '27 was elected President of the Harvard Chess Club for the year 1926-27, at the annual election held last night. The other officers of the Club were chosen as follows: first Vice-President, D. C. Stone 1M.; second Vice-President, B. J. Remes '28, and Secretary-Treasurer, F. R. Chevalier '29. The newly elected Executive Committee will consist of W. G. Campbell '27, F. N. Rich '29, and G. F. Gravell...
Following the recent International Chess Match at Moscow (TIME, Nov. 16, Dec. 7) sets of "revolutionary chessmen" are reported to have achieved a popularity which has necessiated their manufacture on a mass-production scale...
...officially sanctioned Soviet chess "king" and "queen" are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The "pawns" bear the insignia of "Pionerki": a political society for children that have not yet reached the age for entry into the Young Communist League...
...rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet, ecarte, cribbage, five & ten, faro rouge et noir, matrimony, cuchre, poker or bluff, reversi, connexions, speculation, snip snap snore 'em, Boston, catch the ten, lift smoke, lotto, chess, backgammon, draughts, hazard, dominoes, cricket, billiards, tennis, golf, horse racing, cocking, twenty deck, poker, archery...
After several embarrassing hours explaining the deficiencies in his passport, José R. Capablanca came ashore last week from the Leviathan. The hours had been made even more harassing by the persistence of news-writers. Since the Moscow chess tournament TIME, Dec. 7) the market for chess news has developed rapidly. In particular the persistent writers wanted to know "Why?" Why had Capablanca-born with chess strategy "engraved by dry point upon his infant brain"-been defeated by two Russian "unknowns"? He who had declared "Chess-it is too simple" -why had he been driven to a draw by Lasker...