Word: chess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officers of the Boston Chess Club, which is sponsoring the event, plan to make the tournament an annual occurrence in metropolitan Boston. The contest will give bridge-playing students a chance to compete for their colleges without going to the national intercollegiate championships in New York. Any number of pairs from each college may enter the first session, and representation will be equalized for the finals...
...Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
...variety of work that students can perform (and get well paid for) is astonishing. If a call should come through for a boy who speaks Arabic fluently, can tutor in Physics, and knows how to play excellent chess, chances are 100 to one that Mrs. Barnes could get him by running through her files and dialing the phone...
Clarence W. Hewlett, Jr. '42 won the special prize for brilliancy in the New York state chess tournament held in August, Dr. C. Harold King Colgate, president of the state chess association, announced Saturday. The result could not be made known because the four judges had to make an elaborate analysis of the playing...
...function of the Committee is to direct such Freshman activities as dances, athletic events, ping-pong, and chess tournaments, photographic contests, lectures on various topics by members of the Faculty, as well as people not connected with the University, and reviews before midyears and final examinations...