Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evenings in Russia are long? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...
...fantastic world comes to life right in our midst by the deft turn of a phrase. Towards the end of the third act, right after the most realistic scene in the whole play, one of the characters turns to the landlady and asks her to make a second at chess. "But I do not play chess", remonstrates the landlady, "I only play checkers!" "That makes no difference", retorts the other, "come let us play." Whereupon they sit down and play a game of chess. The significance of this is obvious. In real life, the "rival stage", a knowledge of chess...
With prospects bright for a Crimson victory, the University chess team meets Yale tonight at the Liberal Club...
Last week that swart Cuban, José Capablanca, chess champion of the world, arrived at Moscow. It was reported that (he Soviet Government had enticed him thither with much spot cash gold. There came also Dr. Emanuel Lasker (Germany) former world champion; Frank J. Marshall, U. S. Champion, and E. D. Bogoljubow (Ukrainia). They were met by 30 Russian chess players. After entertainments worthy of Lucullus, all sat down to play off the first international chess match to be held in Russia since the fall of Tsardom...
...past, professional football ha thrilled the sporting public about as deeply as the national chess tournament. It is a herald of a new era, therefore, to learn that the New York Football Giants, a professional team, have found it necessary to hire a cheer leader and band for their home games. The public, of course, is accustomed to taking its football with a good deal of seltzer in the shape of organized noise, and if sport enthusiasts are to be enticed into transferring their favor from college to professional games, nothing should be spared to make them feel at home...