Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chicken parts, his lifelong nickname is "Fats", and occasionally polish off heroic amounts of Courvoisier cognac in an evening. His hard times appear to be over. Earning a comfortable living like his three colleagues (exactly how much, they won't say), Holmes finds tranquillity in shooting pool, or playing chess on a board that reflects his expansive nature: it is three feet square...
Dwight does play chess with Greene and also Holmes. He is the most active of the four in the world beyond the Steelers. In the offseason, he works for a Commerce Department program that finds jobs for black college students from Pittsburgh's Hill district...
...Master Mind so popular? Despite the complexity of some of the advanced versions of the game, says Gene Lewallen, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, "it's easy to understand the rules, and it's not long and drawn out like chess [average time to crack the code: 15 minutes]." Lis Nygaard, a television producer from Toronto, plays Master Mind on planes. She became a fan because, "You can break the ice with people. You get to know a lot about them: how they think, even what colors they like...
...Celts only increased the hunger for another one. He tells us what the killer instinct means--once you have an opponent by the throat you don't let him up, but keep him down. It's reminiscent of Bobby Fisher's comment that the enjoyment he derived from chess was not only winning, but crushing his opponent's ego as well...
There may well be no winning moves left in Chess Player Slater's repertory. His personal fortune has dwindled, and he has retired to his home in Surrey, contemplating an end game that could result in financial checkmate...