Word: match
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They first played in 1906 and gather in Cambridge or New Haven on alternate years, but competitors in the annual Harvard-Yale chess match don't need helmets or pads...
...match has been played every year for the last 14 years, since Harvard Chess Club member Christopher N. Avery '88 and former Yale Chess Club President Andrew Metick arranged the 1986 competition. Harvard brought a seven-year winning streak into this weekend's match...
...Harvard's top four players were unable to attend the match, which players said contributed to their loss...
According to McClelland, this match is the second-most important intercollegiate match of the year, next to the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships held in December, which he described as the "NCAA championships" of chess...
...Yale match also serves as practice for the Pan-American championships," McClelland said. "It reminds us how different the atmosphere of team play is from individual competition...