Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wireless Chess...
...novel experiment last month the club attempted to stage a radio chess match between the Chess Club and New York University's chess team. Initial contact was made, but just as the match was about to begin, the New York Wireless Club went off the air for unexplained reasons. The College club hasn't been able to contact them since Despite this temporary set-back President Hirschman plans more attempts at wireless chess matches next year...
...speed-up kings were sent off to the sunny Crimea. At West Lake, the Chinese Stakhanovites were lodged in villas that once belonged to wealthy merchants. "These houses," reported one Chinese newspaper, "have stained-glass windows, beds with springs, and silk quilts, tiled bathrooms with flush toilets, facilities for chess and pingpong, flower-bedecked gardens, radios and books. There is always, too, a Thermos bottle on the table filled with boiled water. Such things were never before within reach of workers in China...
...Harvard crew, the Adams Cup, for the tenth straight time, over Navy and Pennsylvania; at Philadelphia. ¶ Sam Snead, with a 17-under-par 263, the $10,000 Greenbrier Open Golf tournament; at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. ¶ Russia's Mikhail Botvinriik, the world -. chess championship he has held since 1948, after a 24-game draw with Russia's David Bronstein; in Moscow. ¶ The Rokeby Stable's County Delight, the $69,600 Gallant Fox Handicap, in a four-horse photofinish over Palestinian, Greek Ship and Lotowhite; at Jamaica...
...Chess Club's scheduled radio match was called off last Saturday when the New York University Radio Club mysteriously went off the air. The club plans an informal play tonight. Serge Matveev, Yugoslavian Chess Master, will be present...