Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Junction, Colo...
People gradually came to believe there was basis for the Bulletin's graft charges. Finally evidence was placed before a Grand Jury. A lawyer named Hiram Warren Johnson took up the prosecution and by it came to fame. Bribery was proved, the courts acted, San Francisco's graft days were over...
Those fabulous mortals who break the bank at Monte Carlo will occasionally attribute their feat to unadulterated luck, but usually they allude enigmatically to a System. Discreet, they never disclose its formula. More generous is Aron Nimzowitsch, Denmark's grand master of Chess. He writes books about his System, and even exhibits its workings publicly...
...Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, last week, the Danish Grand Master gave neat proof of the efficacy of his method. In the International Grand Masters' Chess tournament, matching wits with all the great masters except two, World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine and onetime World's Champion Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch gained ten wins, ten draws, had only one loss. Earning 15 points he was proclaimed winner. In a dramatic two-week rally he had advanced from fifth place. Only on the next-to-last day of the four-week tournament did he achieve the lead...
Chess enthusiasts call Master Nimzowitsch philosopher and artist as well as mathematician. Besides his System, he uses shrewd psychological strategy. In his game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's overaggressiveness, craftily exchanging pieces to gain a winning advantage. To hold his lead in the final game, he had to vanquish Grand Master Tartakower of Vienna. Noting that his adversary looked weary, he deployed on a lengthy rochade attack. After six hours Tartakower's game collapsed and sly Nimzowitsch...