Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia's Botvinnik promptly outmaneuvered Denker in 25 lightning-quick moves. All Russians played a wide-open game that left the orthodox Americans staring blankly at their boards. It was not only in politics that the Russians were good chess players...
...championships of Russia's national indoor game some 700,000 competed in 1936. The game: chess. This week, with short-wave radio bridging Moscow and Manhattan, the Russians tried their hand at international competition.-A queen's pawn was nudged ahead two squares...
...best of Russia's ten best chess-masters engaged in the four-day frolic was Mikhail Botvinnik, an engineer whose double-thick spectacles made him look like the right man for the No. 1 board. Topping the U.S. big ten was Arnold Denker, who was a welterweight, flunked plane geometry, looked as much like a deep thinker as most 200-lb. fullbacks. Cracked Champion Denker before he dug in, by remote control,against Champion Botvinnik: "I've just got to beat him . . . my dentist's name also happens to be Botvinnik...
...first meeting on Monday evening be committee decided to provide magazines and newspapers for the common rooms of Smith Hall and Standish Hall. The possibility of having a Freshman Oder and holding a chess tournament was also discussed, and the committee hopes to sponsor and dance at the end of the summer, if the number of Freshmen who can bring girls assures its success. The following Freshman have been appointed to the committee; Nelson D. Batchelder, Jr., James Bernstein, Morrill Cole, Ralph Davis, Stephen Davis, Donn, Dugan, Bernard Edison, John B. Jones, Jr., Donald Louiria, Buel S. Smith, Richard VanKleeck...
This MGM production presents a delicate rearrangement of the queen and the knight on a chess-board they have seen at least twice before, in "Keeper of the Flame" and "Woman of the Year." It does not present merely a re-grooved record; Katie and Tracy manage to stay in character in an intelligent comedy that has good lines, a virtue plays like "The Wind is Ninety" don't feel is necessary. There's even a quote from T. S. Eliot--"April is the cruelest month"--which must be some kind of record for the movies...