Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article about electronic games [Dec. 26] provides a great basis for placing past, present and future in perspective. In the old days we played chess, backgammon and battleship together with friends and family. Today we can match wits with these ever willing, never complaining machines. Tomorrow we will become reacquainted with friends and family while the machines battle it out in the next room...
...mail a STEVE BIKOT shirt that had evidently been dipped in some kind of acid; when she tried the shirt on, her face and eyes were burned. Most of all, Woods had grown restless and despondent at the prospect of spending endless days "sitting around, moldering, playing golf and chess...
...Harvard chess team tied for second place along with six other teams in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship held in St. Louis, Missouri December 26 to December...
Sixty-one schools competed in the five-day tournament open to all university chess teams from North America or South America. Penn won the tournament with a 71/2-1/2 score. The final order of the six teams tied for second place with 6-2 was decided by the overall scores of their opponents. The final order was University of Toronto, University of Texas, Columbia, Harvard, Louisville and Princeton...
...submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries...