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Although he met the U.S. Chess Federation's Master qualification last year by amassing 2200 tournament points, Bromberg's title is still unofficial because the federation's computer has been out of order for six months...
Bromberg lost four games in the two-hour chess match to David Groisser '78; Loren Dean '83; Se-Jin Lee '81, president of the H-R Chess Club; and David Chelton, a production editor for a textbook company in Boston...
While an audience of 20 watched through the cafeteria's glass wall, the man billed as a master stepped silently from one chess board to the next, giving each move no more than ten seconds of attention. His score was seven won, four lost, four drawn...
...just wish I'd gotten more than five hours of sleep," Howard J. Bromberg '81, captain of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chess Club's A team, said last night before he launched into his simultaneous exhibition match in the Science Center's Greenhouse Cafe. "It wouldn't work to prepare for this," Bromberg said, adding, "It would be like reading the collected works of Tolstoy before writing a short story. I'll just try not to make any blunders...
...violate the state-dictated traffic pattern and risk the loss of a $1 million highway subsidy. Richard Baker of Newark, Ohio, who used to sell and service electronic equipment, has winkled out enough economic development grants from Washington to refurbish his downtown. With some relish he tells about his chess game against the feds. Washington at first demanded that contractors on two projects have at least 10% minority employment on each job-a problem in Newark because the city's 47,000 population is only 1.4% black. Baker persuaded the feds that for the purposes of affirmative action they...