Word: chessmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hemmed in by the war to a field which he clearly dominates, Grand Master Botvinnik is itching to get back into international competition. Last week he hailed with delight a U.S. Chess Review proposal for a radio match between the ten best U.S. chessmen and Russia's best ten. Said the Grand Master: "I think it will . . . strengthen the cultural relations between the United Nations...
...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...
Chessmaster. On the checkered face of the world, Times correspondents are chessmen. Chessmaster is short, stocky 53-year-old Edwin L. (for Leland) James, a veteran foreign reporter himself. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Virginia's Randolph-Macon College, he worked for papers in Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Albany, came to the Times...
...Chessmen. Timesmen are by no means perfect. Daniel Brigham, in Switzerland, has often been fooled by German propaganda and has repeatedly missed accuracy, spurred by phony tips and his own imagination...
...Middle Ages. No orderly survey of it does the Boston Museum attempt to give, but a glamorous hodgepodge of a period when art and craftsmanship were more nearly one than ever before or since. Crammed into the show's seven galleries are tapestries, jewelry, coffers, chessmen, caskets, cameos, illuminated manuscripts, buckles, reliquaries, candlesticks, vestments, mirrors, rings, enamels, glass, pottery, textiles, Gothic sculpture, painting-from Norway to Byzantium...