Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chess Club announced yesterday the results of the exhibition matches played by K. O. Mott-Smith '22 Tuesday evening. Mott-Smith gave an exhibition of simultaneous chess in which several of the games latested until after midnight. Playing twenty matches at once, he lost two, drew one and won the remaining...
...meeting of the Chess Club in the Club Room of the Union this evening K. O. Mott-Smith '22, who was president of the Club and champion of the University last year, will give an exhibition of simultaneous play. All members of the Club who desire to do so may enter this match. Mott-Smith is one of the most famous collegiate players in the country and, a year ago, playing first board for the Boston Chess Club, he held to a draw Rzeschewski, the eleven year old prodigy who has defeated many of the world's experts...
...meeting of the Chess Club last night it was announced that K. O. Mott-Smith '22 would give an exhibition of simultaneous play at the meeting of the Club next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Club Room...
Mott-Smith, who was president of the Club last year, is one of the best known collegiate players in the country. When Rzeschewski, the young prodigy who has defeated most of the world's experts, came to Boston last year, the Boston Chess Club asked Mott-Smith to play first board in their simultaneous match with the boy. Although the game was finally adjudged a draw long after midnight, Mott-Smith had a winning position and it was only because his eleven year-old opponent was too tired to play longer that the game was discontinued...
...Club has also announced the gift by Mr. H. W. Barrie, problem editor of the American Chess Bulletin, of a picture of the late J. C. J. Wainwright, famous problem composer...