Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chess Club will hold its first open meeting in the Club Room of the Union at 8 o'clock this evening. Ample opportunity will be extended to all wishing to play. The tournament, which is to start at once, will decide the rank of the players and will determine the team to represent the University in the match against Yale and in the intercollegiate tournament at New York during the Christmas holidays...
...University Chess Club will hold its first meeting of the year on Thursday, October 5 at 8 o'clock at the Union. A tournament among the three Freshman dormitories for the Kenna Cup has been planned, and the first matches will take place at this meeting. The cup becomes the property of the hall which wins it three times. In addition a tournament to determine the standing of old members has been scheduled...
Permit me through the medium of your paper to bring before the University the deplorable condition of an old and time honored organization, the Chess Club. Up to a few years ago the club held a respected place in the University's activities, but now it has been reduced to comparatively a small group, whose efforts have been hampered by lack of numbers. The Harvard Chess Club is on its last legs. It needs to be considerably strengthened or it will die of inanition...
Almost everyone has dabbled in chess at some time or other. Many still play, usually against one steady antagonist whose methods they penetrate and whose methods they penetrate and whose game accordingly becomes tiresome. The club affords an opportunity for any member of the University of contending weekly against adversaries of varied skill, of playing in matches against different metropolitan clubs every Friday, and of representing the University in the Yale meet at New Haven and in the Intercollegiates at New York...
...next meeting will be an open one held in the Club Dining Room of the Union at 8 P. M., October 5. We hope for a response. ALFRED KING '24 President, Chess Club...