Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John G. Daugman '76 said he prefers battles of brains to those of brawn. Since his discovery of chess, he said, "I find it difficult to feel entertained by watching a pack of Goliaths, that is to say, Philistines, knocking each other down on a football field...
Just out is the first exhaustive analysis of the tactics and strategy of the world's leading proprietary board game (McKay; $5.95). Titled The Monopoly Book (what else?), it was written by Lifelong Player Maxine Brady, 33, a writer and lecturer who is married to Chess Writer and Arbiter Frank Brady. It draws on the research of mathematicians, economists and psychologists. The game's maker, Parker Brothers of Salem, Mass., also will sponsor next week in Manhattan an annual World Monopoly Championship-an event from which will emerge the game's grand master. The contest will...
Darrach paints all his characters with rich strokes. Almost too rich, in fact. He describes one U.S. chess official as a "Huckleberry Babbitt," a man whose "pink scalp looks like a ham in mourning." Such vivid excesses might be well placed in a short treatment. But served in book-length bunches, the cumulative effect is a bit like overdosing on chocolate fudge...
...interpretations, most of them bad, Darrach grants him his due. As he notes, many of the seemingly outlandish demands Bobby has made over the years have not only been justified but have since been adopted as rules for tournament play. Al though he recently resigned his world title because chess officials rejected additional demands, Fischer has more than made good his own bold promise:"I'm gonna put chess...
Still, upon hearing of the book's publication, Fischer reportedly told his law yers to "get Darrach." Bobby, who for years shunned women in favor of his trusty chess board and Bible, will probably be most annoyed by a pair of revelations. First, that during off moments in Reykjavik he frequently took to the mineral baths with a pair of adoring young lovelies in bikinis. And second, that for six months thereafter, while secluded in a California compound run by the Worldwide Church of God, he not only dated but, at his request, was introduced to "vivacious" girls with...