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...more than two centuries, the loyal legions of Yale and Harvard have struggled for athletic and social pre-eminence, with occasional digressions into academic debate. Last week the confrontation moved to a new battlefield when two expert chess players began a long-distance match in the name of 'Ivy League glory...
Wilder attained a U.S. Chess Federation ranking of "Master" at age 13, the youngest person to achieve that honor since former world champion Bobby Fisher. Contacted yesterday at his New Jersey home, where he is recovering from a bout of mononucleosis, the cocky youngster said he hasn't than five minutes thinking about any one move...
Though he called the match "irrelevant" to the long-term stature of his school, the aspiring psychology major expressed some concern that his opponent would gain a mental edge because of his special game plan. Wilds is ranked 34th in the country in chess but said he has won for more money playing poker...
...least one person--Mar S. Rohenburg '82--hanging on every move Wilder and Champagne make President of the Harvard Radcliffe Chess Club. Rosenburg has maintained a running explanation of the match, which leavett and Peirce displays on its window along with the board itself...
Store manager David A Peper will present the winner of the match with a regulation chess clock but says there are no provisions for a possible draw. He estimated that Wilder and Champagne will finish up sometime in early March...