Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year, anxiety-prone Argentine Chess Champion Miguel Najdorf seemed in terrible physical shape all the while he matched moves with chainsmoking U.S. Champion Samuel Reshevsky (TIME, Oct. 20). Najdorf was soundly beaten, eleven games to seven. Soon a rumor, whipped up by the Argentine weekly newspaper Verdad (Truth), swept across the pampas: the nefarious yanquis had doped Najdorf's coffee. Back home, making no sportsmanlike denial of the nasty tiding, Najdorf instead cried for revenge. He finally persuaded Argentina's Chess Federation to put up about $3,000 for his enemy to come south for a comeuppance...
...telling the sport news of the 30 years since then, TIME'S covers have ranged from boxing to jai alai, including stories on baseball, football, crew racing, chess, tennis, polo, ice hockey and skiing. Sport Editor Douglas Kennedy wrote this week's cover story, the seventh he has written since he came to TIME in '1950. Subjects of Kennedy's other cover stories: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dick Savitt, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias...
More Than Intellect. Rommel regarded bravery, regularly demonstrated, as a necessary part of the equipment of a successful commander. A general, he wrote, should not fight his battle as a game of chess, but must take personal command in the field. His accounts of the fighting in France and North Africa are filled with such notes as: "To enable me to force the pace, I took the leading battalion under my personal command." This brought him constantly under enemy fire; he missed death by inches; his drivers and aides were killed; he suffered a fractured skull himself when strafing...
When the U.S. Chess Federation issued an invitation to its Russian counterpart, it could hardly have expected a favorable reply. If it had, it would have given more thought to the McCarran Act's subversive clause. Thus, when the Soviet, flapping benignly in its latest peace offensive, allowed its team to take up the challenge, there was acute embarrassment in American chess circles, relieved only when the State Department-surely loaded with chess enthusiasts itself-promised the Russians visas on the grounds of "national interest...
Some may try to excuse this glaring inconsistency by pointing out that Russian chess players hardly constitute a menace to the nation, and such specious use of the "national interest" loophole is harmless. While true, this reasoning hardly justifies the contrast, for under the Act's provisions men as safe as any pawn-pusher and many times more worthy are refused entry by the score...