Word: chesse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compare squash and racquetball, I would use the analogy of chess and checkers. Squash has a different ball, a different racket, different rules and a different court, but you're still in a big box, and that's like having the same checkered board," Barenbaum explains...
Medicine was David's second choice as a career. After high school, he attended M.I.T. and Caltech as a physics major. He never let up on himself, at work or play. Though short, he was an intense basketball player. At Caltech, he took up chess. Characteristically, the first time he entered a tournament...
...another meant living in touch with one another; the American impulse to create civic associations that so impressed Tocqueville as the central feature of democracy now made its home in cyberspace, which imposed a new class system on the old. Over the disintegrated boundaries of time and space, chess players found fellow chess players, militia groups new members, religions converts, husbands wives, teenagers...
...sent aloft in 1972, when Richard Nixon was in the White House, Bobby Fischer was the world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
...Leyritz clubbing a three-run homer off Mark Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart...