Word: chess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumstances are that Frank Billings Kellogg has rather cleverly out-maneuvred Aristide Briand at a game of diplomatic chess which has been going on for nine months. M. Briand made the first move in good faith when he proposed to sign a treaty outlawing war simply between France and the U. S. (TIME, July...
...chess team representing Harvard lead a team from Princeton who finished second to the University in the last annual tournament of the H-Y-P-W. College Chess League, 2 to 1 after an afternoon session Saturday. Although originally it was planned to contest this first match of this year's tournament on five boards, due to the non-appearance of one of the Tiger men, only four were used...
...first round of the Union Chess Tournament must be played by Saturday, according to an announcement made last night by F. R. Chevalier...
Capablanca. Landing at Manhattan from Buenos Aires, last week, the great Cuban chess master Jose Raoul Capablanca said: "In chess today everything is known to great players. There are no new moves, no new tactics to consider. If the game is to live and grow popular it will have to be made harder...
Alluding to Alexander Alekhine, who wrested from Capablanca the chess championship of the world, last December, he said: "Naturally I expect to regain the championship...