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Clem L. Shaver, National Chairman, introduced as toastmaster John William Davis, last Democratic Presidential nominee and still technical head of the party. Toastmaster Davis explained that the Democracy must be something between an army of generals and a set of political chessmen. He called upon all Democrats to unite for victory, and upon famed Democrats around the tables to tell how and why victory must come...
...champion is four years younger than the old. He was born in Moscow and achieved the foundation of his present eminence when he won the Russian National tournament in 1909. To him, chess is less a philosophy than a war. He imagines the chessmen as weapons, not as words; his play is marked from the beginning with a sort of slow-burning and intricate belligerence...
...producing a thinking machine. Yet, last week, the French Academy of Sciences admitted Leonardo Torres y Quevodo, mathematician from Madrid, to associate membership because he effectively demonstrated a chess-playing machine. Senor Quevodo's automaton meets all emergencies of the game when less than half of the chessmen are on the board; is even able to stop playing in case its human opponent cheats...
Following the recent International Chess Match at Moscow (TIME, Nov. 16, Dec. 7) sets of "revolutionary chessmen" are reported to have achieved a popularity which has necessiated their manufacture on a mass-production scale...
Adrien Gambet 1 T.S., captain of the University ten, is facing Yale for the fifth consecutive year. Edward Wallach '27 has taken part in two victories over the Eli experts. Tonight's match will be held on ten boards simultaneously, and preceded by a dinner given to the visiting chessmen at the Liberal Club...