Word: player
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...games are to be finished by April 15. All games not played by that time will be considered as lost to both players, or awarded to the player who shall be deemed by the executive committee to have made sufficient effort, though unsuccessful, to play off the game in question...
...made in the blue-book at Bartlett's on payment of the entrance fee of fifty cents. The tournament will begin next week and last probably three or four weeks according as the number, of entries ranges high or low. There will be but a single round, each player playing with every other at the appropriate odds. It is expected that no man needs play more than three games during a week. The handicapping will be arranged by the executive committee of the Harvard Chess Club, in close accordance with the results of private matches and previous tournaments. There will...
...tournament, as one of the recognized athletic contests, between the large colleges is a most satisfactory step. The game has been growing popular so rapidly that it will undoubtedly occupy a prominent place among American sports in the near future, especially since the qualities required in a successful golf player are skill and steadiness rather than remarkable physical endowments...
...extremely literal application which Dr. Raynolds makes of the CRIMSON'S simile, comparing the coached debater to a chess player whose moves were suggested by an expert at his back, is too far-fetched to call for a reply...
...editorial writer in the Crimson who compares the coached debater to a chess player performing the mechanical act of moving the pieces while an expert behind his back plans the moves for him, can hardly imagine that a professor stands on the platform behind the debater, whispering in his ear, though his words would seem to imply some such belief. If the part of the chess expert were limited to improving his pupil's play before the match the comparison would be less infelicitous...