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...Harvard Chess Team swept the 1990 Pan-American Intercollegiate Chess Championship last month with a perfect score of 6-0, defending the national title for the third year...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Chess Squad Wins Natl. Crown | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...championship, hosted by the Harvard Chess Club at Cambridge's Charles Hotel from December 27-30, attracted 30 four-person squads from colleges and universities across the United States, Canada and Central America to compete for the intercollegiate crown and $4000 in prize money...

Author: By Daniel Choi, | Title: Chess Squad Wins Natl. Crown | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

...Playing chess with divinity can be dangerous, however. The great Steinitz, who once claimed to have played against God and won (he neglected to leave a record of the game), went quite mad. The last great practitioner of truth, Bobby Fischer, after winning the world championship in 1972, disappeared into some apocalyptic sect in California and had the fillings in his teeth removed to stop the KGB transmissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beauty, Truth and Hitchcock | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Beauty, truth and Hitchcock. Now, that's entertainment. Benjamin Franklin, when ambassador to France, was known to spend most of his time at the Cafe de la Regence playing chess. Why did he so rarely go to the Paris opera? "I call this my opera," explained Franklin. He'd have camped at the Hudson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beauty, Truth and Hitchcock | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

Forget about baseball and boxing. The chess battle between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov -- and the upstairs kibitzing -- has been the supreme contest of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: Nov. 19, 1990 | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

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