Word: chesse
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...downhill from there. When the lights come back on, lago (Erik Amblad) talks to Roderigo (Paul Siemens) over a game of chess. lago, Shakespeare's lines reveal, is angry with Othello for having denied him a promotion. Unfortunately, Amblad does not seem angry at all as he wields one or two inexpressive arm gestures again and again. The stage that seemed to have so much potential becomes a nuisance when actors turn around and throw unprojected, inaudible lines to about a third of the audience at a time. Every lighting change is accompanied by a melodramatic clang, and the actors...
Kedlaya, who plans to earn a Ph.D. and enter academics, also volunteers with the American Red Cross, plays chess, bridge and ultimate frisbee and sings in the Harvard Glee Club
Last Saturday three Harvard students, or "boards" as they are called in chess circles, managed to squeak by Yale at the annual Harvard-Yale chess tournament in the common room of Yale's Timothy Dwight College...
Representing Harvard were Daniel J. Benjamin '99, Matthew W. Bengston '96 and Jeremy L. Martin 96, members of the Harvard Chess Club who are ranked in at least the top 6 to 7 percent of all chess players in the country, Martin said...
Martin who learned the basics of chess at age five and won the State Chess Championship for southern California said he views chess as "a nice mix of an intellectual challenge and a sporting event...