Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silent as a chess player. (His one relaxation, in fact, is chess; his fellow Army men well know the Shaposhnikov end game.) He is personally cold and reticent, and he stays out of the political light. He is modest to the brink of affectation; his books are almost coquettish: "Our present immature work. ... If the magnanimous reader will do us the great honor of further following our reasoning. . . ." This silence and super-modesty have saved his political head time & again...
Competitors are asked to be present in the Union's Chess Room at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night, and Hooper stressed that photo men, especially, are desried. The book goes to press about May 1, and will appear early in June...
After a two-year lapse, Harvard's chess team regained supremacy in the annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton-Dartmouth chess competition held at the Marshall Chess Club, New York City, on December...
...Person. The Admiral is an adversary who does not want underrating. Yamamoto means Base of a Mountain, and the Admiral is solid. He is deliberate, positive, aggressive. His passion for winning has made him the bridge, poker, chess, and go* champion of the Japanese Navy. Once an American asked him how he learned bridge so quickly. He explained: "If I can keep 5,000 ideographs in my mind, it is not hard to keep in mind 52 cards...
...principles of convoys to land-to the Burma Road? Just as German attacks on sea convoys were "piracy," would Japanese attacks on land convoys become "banditry"? This would be a very tough gambit, but the Axis had taught the democracies a thing or two about how to play world chess...