Word: outstripped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year's cup tournament. for the reasons that the final pairs have in few cases been made up and that the preliminary lists exhibit new men of generally unknown strength. But the old men have had in most instances such incentives to improvement that the '96 tournament will doubtless outstrip its predecessors just as previous tournaments have in average chess quality...