Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contests need not involve physical violence to evoke the guilt reaction, says Dr. Levin. There was a bridge player who, when he began to win, would "go all to pieces," feel weak, and be unable to shuffle the cards or write the score. Even chess has its victims; one man had an attack when he thought he was going to checkmate his opponent. Cataplexy afflicts winners, not losers. Some people, says Levin, "feel guilty when they beat a competitor, even in sport, for victory gratifies their unconscious hostile wishes. When they lose a game, they may not like...
...worked hard for the return of King George II, he served as Papagos' chief deputy when the Greek Rally Party was in opposition. In his office he chain-smokes gold-initialed cigarettes and chain-drinks Turkish coffee, talks cheerfully, optimistically and incessantly. One of Greece's chess masters, he plays a brilliant, passionate, impatient game. Two years ago he spoke hardly a word of English ; last week he rattled off a fine-sounding sentence: "We shall be obliged to take unpopular measures for the simple reason that American aid cannot go on forever and we must become self...
...only got 19,500 feet up McKinley because of the weather," says Francis, on the question of savoir-vivre, "but we learned what it takes to survive. His men were capable of playing chess for six days while stranded in a blizzard...
...Only two days ago I was lamenting the fact that you never mention my most loved hobby-chess. Then, as if it were a personal response, you come up with a grand profile [Oct. 20] on Samuel Reshevsky, the greatest chess player of them all. Thank...
...satisfactorily explain what makes a great chess player. Having a mathematical bent is not enough. The leading U.S. masters come from all walks of life, and include a psychologist, a wholesale meat merchant, a chemist, an editor, a college student, a pharmacist and a soldier. There has never been a top woman player. Reshevsky thinks that women are too easily rattled to make strong players. Of composure and self-confidence, the two most important ingredients after ability, Reshevsky has a full measure. He displayed both when a spectator asked him to explain the one-sidedness of his match score against...