Word: match
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Team members attributed the loss in part to weather conditions and holiday traffic that prevented one of their strongest players from getting to Columbus. Second-seeded Girome S. Bono '88, a senior master--the highest national rank--spent two days waiting at Logan Airport to fly to the match site...
...chessmen said they met their main competition--Yale and Toronto--earlier in the tournament than they had expected. By the time Bono arrived, the Yale match had already begun. He was only able to play four instead of the normal six games, all of which...
First board player Danny H. Edelman '91, a senior master and a FIDE master--the third highest international rank--defeated Yale's Patrick Wolff, who stands one step higher on the international scale at international master. Harvard lost one game and tied another, so the match depended on Chabris...
...Danny [Edelman] afterwards showed me a way I could've won much earlier in the match," Hamilton said, referring to his game against Minnesota. "In the middle of the game he was smiling and I couldn't figure it out. I moved the rook to the wrong space and he was just smiling more because of what I'd missed," he said. "I had been sitting there for six hours and my brain was fried...
Even though Harvard sat out five of its starters, eight of the nine individual matches were shutouts. Harvard's number one and two players, Darius Pandole and Co-Captain Russ Ball were playing in a tournament. Also missing the match were Co-Captain Jack Polsky, George Polsky and James Gilfillan...