Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime stay-at-homes took to their chessboards last week, Samuel Reshevsky, onetime child prodigy, for the fourth successive time won the biennial U.S. chess championship...
...thin-haired, bespectacled, 31-year-old Reshevsky lived in present-day Russia-where chess is the national pastime and people jam the streets to watch the moves of championship matches on giant dummy boards-he would be a national hero. But in the U.S., where chess has no more spectator appeal than calisthenics, Reshevsky is just another guy named...
Child prodigies often grow up distorted. But Sam Reshevsky was fortunate enough to come to the attention of the late great Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who made him give up exhibition chess at the age of 13 so he could get an education. By the time he was 23 and resumed playing, Reshevsky proved that his early talent had been no flash in the pawn. At the 1935 International Masters Tournament at Margate, England, little Sam copped first prize-outwitting among others, onetime World's Champion José Capablanca...
...such busy people, you find plenty to do in your leisure hours: swimming, of course, and golf and tennis and cards - 45% of you make a hobby of photography, 44% work in the garden, 19% own boats, 11% play chess - more than one out of ten of you sing in public. And you read so many books (an average of about 23 books a year each) that the readers of TIME account for more than half of all the members of the Book of the Month Club...
Your "Little Wars" story in TIME for Dec. 14 omitted a discussion of the war game that has withstood the test of centuries and undoubtedly will be played when the modern games are wholly forgotten-chess...