Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Aug 2). It comes as a welcome relief from the usual military correspondent's report, so thickly studded with task forces, combat teams, objectives, bridgeheads, zones of advance and other military terminology as to make the average reader come to view battlefield operations as a combination of chess and football...
...world at large this air war is still a jumble of seemingly unconnected attacks on a steadily increasing number of German targets. To the heads of the combined U.S.-British air forces in Britain, and to the German High Command, it is a vast chess game whose players move freely in three dimensions. To win this game, or at least to stalemate it, the Germans are putting virtually all of their air effort into defense...
...things O'Nolan takes seriously is chess. He is equipped with a pocket chessboard, plays promiscuously with chance acquaintances. He has informally beaten World Champion Alekhine. He writes so easily that he grows bored with it. At Swim Two Birds, O'Nolan's first novel in English, is never concluded, just stops abruptly...
With Sergei Vinogradov, the Soviet Ambassador, Saracoglu's relations are on a good, solid political footing, personalized by occasional games of chess. The score between the two, after two years of playing, is about even - as are official Russo-Turkish relations at their present stage...
Before the current U.S. diamond boom afforded him a job at his old trade, Koltanowski taught chess to children in Milwaukee's public playgrounds. "Chess," he says, "is important in elementary schooling. Youngsters are usually not yet ready for team play, are more interested in expressing themselves. Chess gives them an outlet. It also teaches children to think first and think for themselves." In teaching, Koltanowski makes his pupils move the first chessman they touch, even if the move is a mistake. With Koltanowski opposite, many players have learned by their mistakes...