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...Harvard Chess Team lost the championship title to Yale in a series of close matches at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship...
Last year, Harvard tied with the University of Chicago for first place out of 53 teams in the tournament, the main intercollegiate chess competition...
...captain Chris N. Avery '88 said that despite the loss of first place, Harvard's showing this year and last signaled a "resurgence" in the team's performance. In recent years, the chess team has finished lower than fifth place, he said...
...irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain's unlikely grand passion, Victor is the chief beneficiary of a shifty, sometimes shiftless man's redeeming devotion. He is also, in the end, the Captain's unwitting Judas. Greene, 84, wastes...
...other professional sports, the game itself is attractive. Football offers hard hits, long passes, late-second field goals. Baseball offers overpowering pitchers, chess-like strategy, pinch-hit homeruns. Hockey offers brawls, great saves, breakaway goals...