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...seven weeks, the Red and Nazi master players feinted, traded pawns, moved flesh-and-steel chessmen across Russia's vast chessboard. For seven weeks, in a desperate effort to fathom each other's strategy, they pored over maps, battle reports, messages from spies and scouts. Last week both knew: the Russians had outguessed and outplayed their...
...things O'Nolan takes seriously is chess. He is equipped with a pocket chessboard, plays promiscuously with chance acquaintances. He has informally beaten World Champion Alekhine. He writes so easily that he grows bored with it. At Swim Two Birds, O'Nolan's first novel in English, is never concluded, just stops abruptly...
Vichyfrenchmen in Dakar looked over their shoulders at Liberia, where U.S. troops, according to Reuters last week, had built two airports. Dakar might find itself suddenly caught between two camps. Berlin studied the corners of a chessboard; either airpower had to be shifted from Russia or Rommel would continue to lose the battle of supply. Rome had reason to be afraid. If Rommel's army was destroyed, the Allied fist would be pointed from North Africa at Italy's soft underside...
...Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
...Hitler saw through it and attacked him before he was ready. Now, after 17 weeks, Hitler had hurt Russia so badly that, at best, Joseph Stalin would have to begin all over again. The work of years, the beautiful factories, the idea that every man might own a chessboard and have time to play-almost everything Stalinist was now broken by Hitler. This was the same Hitler who wired Stalin in 1939: "I beg you to accept my sincerest congratulations on your 60th birthday. I enclose with them my best wishes for your personal welfare as well...