Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open meeting of the Chess Club will be held in the Union this evening at 8 o'clock, Members are asked to bring boards and men for the exhibition. The meeting this evening will be open to all students of the University...
...those slender concubines that so vividly people the imaginations of sightseers; by a trade jealousy; a stolen opium shipment; in short, by almost any obscure betrayal of Oriental honor. Once begun, they are conducted on a system much re- sembling that which governs the game of chess. The purpose of each side is to wipe out the important leaders of the other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they...
...friends about him. And he loved a friendly game of draw poker. He played it not because there might be a little money involved. He played it because it was a form of relaxation which he most enjoyed. He played it as some people play bridge, or dominoes, or chess, or croquet. He played it without secrecy or apology. And he played it often and sometimes late. And yet these quiet little games have been made to appear, in some minds, as scandalous orgies staged in the official home of the very head of the Government itself...
Last week saw knights and bishops, queens and pawns go down again before master chess minds, with the close of the International Chess Masters' Tournament at Marienbad, Czecho-Slovakia, following the tournament at Baden-Baden (TIME, May 25). Alekhine, the Russian wizard who won at Baden-Baden, did not participate...
...Baden-Baden, came in strong at Marienbad. Frank J. Marshall, U. S. champion, and Carlos Torre, New York State champion, were tied for third and fourth places with ten victories and five defeats. For this achievement, each will receive 1,800 crowns. And, more than that, the Marshall Chess Club of this country (of which Marshall and Torre are both members) cabled its congratulations to the two Americans, and the Club made plans to honor Marshall with a reception on his return...