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Meanwhile, Brown retrieved Wyche five years ago to coach Cincinnati -- as it happens, the 49ers' opponent this Super Sunday in Miami. For the first time in many a Roman numeral, perhaps in the whole stolid history of the most consistently disappointing annual spectacle in America, a two-sided chess match is not only promised but guaranteed. The only question about Walsh and Wyche is which of them is wormier with ideas. Their imaginations are so active that the very canons of the sport are under strain. The National Football League is worried...
...CHESS London's frantic multimedia hit was rewritten for Broadway as a tender, doom-struck musical meditation on how East-West politics crush individuals. Trevor Nunn's trademark cinematic staging gave narrative clout to the best rock score ever produced for the theater...
...their savings from the Nazis. Detained by the Gestapo, he commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money...
...young protagonist -- who except Hitler could root against a pre- pubescent? -- and a prime villain. Colonel Gregor Laemmle, the SS officer in pursuit of Thomas, is far more than the usual posturing sadist. A former philosophy professor, he is a connoisseur of art and literature and something of a chess master himself. Laemmle regards the hunting of Thomas as a large- scale tournament, with gambits to be savored even when they go against the Germans...
...liner from some troubled dream, is pretty aggressive stuff. Near at hand, for instance, a pair of sharp, stainless-steel horns, curled forward like those of a fighting bull, rise improbably from the top rear edge of a medium-size white canvas cube. This contraption is placed at a chess table -- chess is a design element here -- and is evidently a sitting machine, a chair...