Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chess Club elected Paul E. Allinger '51 president for the coming year at a recent organizational meeting. Richard L. Rinderman '53 was elected vice-president, and Lawrence R. Casler '53, secretary-treasurer. A college-wide tournament will start soon, Caslor stated...
...Harvard class history, Eliot has made some frank self-revelations: "... I play a bad game of chess and like such games as poker, rummy and slippery Ann for low stakes ... I never bet because I never win ... I cannot afford yachting, but I should like to breed bull terriers. I am afraid of high places and cows...
...Harvard Chess Club now leads the Boston Metropolitan Chess League, President Alfred David '51 announced last night. The club now has a record of five wins, two draws, and one loss as opposed to their nearest rival, Boylston, with five wins, one draw, and two losses...
Sammy has two children, 7 and 2. They don't play chess; they like dolls and teddy bears...
...Chess Player. Dr. Claude E. Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories is figuring how to make a calculator that can play chess. He thinks that one could play well enough to beat all except the greatest chess masters. Machines are also capable, he thinks, of orchestrating a melody and of making simple logical deductions...