Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chess were not complicated enough in its classic format, innovators have over the years developed variations that make the game even more complex. In one version called Capablanca Concentric Chess, the pieces move in spiraling arcs around a circular board. A number of three-dimensional chess games have also made their appearance, including one invented by Russian-born Mathematician Ervand G. Kogbetliantz that was so bewildering that it never really caught on; it is played on an eight-tiered board with 64 pieces to a side. Now, working independently, two other buffs have devised chesslike games for three players...
...Rafael, Calif., is played on a Y-shaped board with 108 squares and 18 irregular quadrilaterals. Six of the quadrilaterals -which are located in the triangular zone, or interface, where the three sectors of the board meet-are colored red and called "transit points." As in traditional chess, each player starts out with a regulation army of 16 pieces -red, black or white-which move in the standard way, unless they land on a transit point. Then strange things can happen. A bishop, for example, can transfer from a diagonal row of white squares to a black row. By moving...
...everything, it's the only thing," he leans harder on quiet attention to detail and less on histrionics. Lombardi taught his men to hate their opponents so much that they occasionally came to hate him even more. Shula tends to think of his opponents as chess pieces to be eliminated...
...that Breuer minds; he has always been his own man. He lives in houses of his own design in New Canaan, Conn., and Wellfleet, Mass., with his wife and daughter, 18 (he also has a son, 29), and is known as a bon vivant, chess player and bawdy raconteur. As busy as ever, Breuer is constantly on the go. One project is a recreational town of 48,000 units along the dune-dotted Aquitaine coast in southwestern France. Another is the Koerfer House in Switzerland that just won a top architectural award. Back in the U.S. is a new hydropower...
...Tournament chess is hard work," he said. "I tried to stay a little more relazed than usual, but the pressure is always...