Word: chess
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...blue-moon moments of credibility here are clearly instinctual. But her Hedda is recklessly artificial and horribly overplanned. For a while, I thought that her cartoonishness might have been the point of her performance; but, in truth, many of her Harvard turns (most egregiously in The Waverly Gallery and Chess, but even in minor twaddle like Ivory Towers) have suffered from the same overthought, reactive theatricality so often and inexplicably mistaken for the height of realism—in which every movement and inflection is beautiful, but deliberate and unspontaneous. There is no unconsciousness to her; her gestures...
Harvard’s chess team flew to China for the express purpose of proving that America can hold its own over the black and white board. As part of the Harvard in Asia Project, a cultural exchange between Peking and Harvard that took place over Spring Break, five Harvard chess players participated in a two-day match. The Beijing match concluded with a resounding Crimson victory...
From the very first day, it was clear that Peking University takes his chess very seriously. Upon arrival, the Harvard contingent— Daniel J. Benjamin, a third year economics grad student, Marc R. Esserman ’05, Dan E. Goodman ’07, Daniel H. Thomas ’05-06, and Albert C. Yeh ’07—was greeted with a 30-foot banner advertising their match. Because the Harvard team was formally invited by the Chinese government, they were treated as quasi-celebrities. Peking University’s president gave an opening...
...attention and substantial crowds at their matches. One team member was especially pleased by a massage discount he enjoyed simply for being a Harvard student. Harvard public policy professor Kenneth Rogoff was impressed by the magnitude of the match, noting that “beating giant [Peking] University in chess is arguably akin to beating an Ohio State or a Miami in football.” In addition to his academic duties, Rogoff carries the title of chess grandmaster, the highest distinction awarded by the World Chess Federation...
Similarly, Thomas notes China’s striking enthusiasm for chess. “I would really like to move to China and play,” he says. If the Chinese enthusiasm for chess isn’t enough, he also adds, “The women were also really beautiful...