Word: chess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antonius Block, a disillusioned knight, returns from the Crusades with his cynical squire just as the bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall his doom, so that he and the squire can wander through the ravaged countryside and closer to bubonic plague is devastating Scandinavia. When Death suddenly appears to claim him, Block proposes they play a game of chess to decide the fate of his soul. He is thus able to forestall...
...France's Marcel Ayme, 56, literary art is the science of the impossible. Characters in Across Paris, a collection of twelve remarkable short stories, walk through walls, don seven-league boots, and play chess with stuffed owls. If the meanings are not always crisp and clear, the prose is. In his stories as in his novels (The Barkeep of Blemont, The Second Face) Author Ayme follows one rule: put all of life's ironies in the creative fire...
Gambit. In Clearwater, Fla., Wallis Cady, who has been playing chess-by-mail for 18 months with Ray Pearson of Detroit, wrote to remind Pearson that he had not made a move in seven months, soon got a note from Detroit, saying "I thought it was your move...
...seemed a breed apart. They seldom body-checked, showed no signs of pique when an American opponent lowered a shoulder and sent them sprawling. They tried few power plays, relied instead on dazzling skating and passing so precise that their offense looked like a giant-sized game of animated chess. Instead of whooping with triumph after a goal, they skated deadpan back up ice. But the touring Russian all-stars had one familiar sporting trait: they played...
...Harvard chess team finished a close second in the recently completed Collegiate Chess Tournament, trailing victorious Chicago by half a point...