Word: chess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here we study poetry, if at all, for insight into more poetry, not for a poet's insight into the world. Poetry is more than an elaborate form of chess. No other vehicle can carry you so headily into some warm regions of thought. Those regions are worth visiting, filled as they are with a wealth that is inexhaustible, because rediscovered and thus enhanced by each new problem...
...pretty nutty," acknowledges John Tunstill, publisher of Miniature Warfare and president of the London War Games Society. "Most people think we're a bunch of old eccentrics pushing toys around, but it's like chess in a way." The devotees follow the art in publications like Tun-still's, sport their own society ties, and patronize specialized stores such as London's Tradition Shop or The Soldier Shop in Manhattan. Some concentrate on exquisitely detailed toy warriors, others on arcane tactical research...
Fencing has been called an athletic game of chess, and like chess it can be mastered in many ways. The Crimson fencing team proves that. Against CCNY this Saturday afternoon, they will try to prove that they are the masters of the college circuit...
...flawless picture: the tall, pants-suited woman, attractive in the years before middle age, her hair dyed black, her husky voice speaking well-chosen, mature words. The apartment bright with Florida sun and four children, and comfortable with the acquisitions of tasteful travelers: an inlaid bone chess table from Pakistan, tiny prints from Arabia, a brass samovar from Teheran. She has worked as a nurse and now attends college for a nursing degree; she goes to occasional cocktail parties...
BROWN-COLGATE: Imagine being the promoter who brought this game to Providence. What next? The annual chess match between Roger Williams Jr College and Salem State? Granted, after playing Yale and Dartmouth on successive weekends, Brown deserves a break. But Colgate? It's too late to cancel the game, though. The Bruins...