Word: chess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This year, however, hasn't been as bad for the University as some people suppose. Harvard's math team, chess team, bridge team and on-topic debate team placed first in the country against formidable opposition. Put bluntly, we kicked some intellectual butt...
...missing body, a map, a code. British mystery fans and chess buffs alike are turning from P.D. James and Agatha Christie this summer to a real-life riddle that police have yet to solve. Was Theresa Terry murdered? If so, where is her body? The riddle has drawn in the chess columnist for the London Times as well as dozens of would-be Sherlock Holmeses...
...buried her body, but he refused to say where. Instead he handed his interrogators two sheets of paper. One contained a crude map with three rough drawings of what could be outlines of countries. They were marked by Roman numerals. The other listed what looked like obscure chess moves...
...code: detective chief superintendent Roy Fletcher in Preston, Lancashire, called on the Times's chess columnist, grand master Raymond Keene. At first, Keene was as befuddled as the police. Then he recalled that Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass is prefaced by a chess problem in which Alice wins in 11 moves after entering a reversed world on the other side...
...past two weeks, Keene's readers have offered dozens of solutions. An Irish barrister suggested that HG referred to the Holy Ground public house in the St. John's area of Limerick, a desolate place ideally suited for the disposing of bodies. To complicate matters, William Hartston, the chess correspondent for the rival Independent, proposed that the map represented Continental Europe and that Terry's body had been thrown from a ferry in the Bay of Naples...