Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no outstanding favorite in the tournament, which will not be ended until Aug. 28. Safest prediction perhaps was that the favorite opening would be the Queen's Gambit, which seemed likely to be adopted in 60%, perhaps 70%, of the games. Chess Masters have a tendency to play not to lose rather than to play to win, and the queen's side opening leads to intricate but not explosive posi tional play. A favorite amateur opening which begins with both players moving their king's pawns two squares ahead also seemed unlikely to be important, as even when...
...Since that period many a health seeker, and also many a fashionable tourist, has come to Karlovy Vary?better known as Carlsbad. Last week, however, Carlsbad became the centre of intellectual as well as medicinal activity, for to the famed spa came 22 chess Masters and Grand Masters* to play in the fourth annual Carlsbad International Tournament. They came not seeking health?for, contrary to popular impression, chess players are more often large and brawny than thin and puny?but experience, reputation and $15,000 in cash prizes. With the single exception of World's Champion Dr. Alexandre Alekhine...
...that point that something happened, something perhaps internationally significant. Polo is usually a game of brilliant individuals. The young Old Aikens rely on perfect team-play. Riding into the fifth chukker against the Greentrees they opened a team attack of such dash and precision that they scored five times without giving the Greentrees another goal. Captain Iglehart tied the score on a free shot just before the final gong. In the extra period he smacked another one through. The Midwests, able individualists though they were, could make no headway at all against the Old Aiken system of feeding, riding...
...part played by Mrs. Hitchcock in developing polo players is without parallel. The new junior champions-who went undefeated through 1927, won the Meadowbrook and Hempstead Cups last year and this year defeated Winston Guest's freebooters for the Westbury Cup-are all graduates of the Meadow Larks, a training school organized by her with experts like Devereaux Milburn and Malcolm Stevenson supervising and refereeing. Internationalist Guest was once a Meadow Lark. Some, and perhaps all of the present Old Aikens will doubtless become Internationalists. "Schooling" for polo means learning horsemanship with and without a mallet. It means...
...last week's tournament at Essex Country Club, Manchester,. Mass. Although she gave warning lately by beating Miss Sarah Palfrey, the 1928 girl's indoor champion, in straight sets at Longwood, the Essex officials did not bother to "seed" her in their tournament. As the play proceeded at Essex last week, she trounced Miss Marjorie Gladman, the 1927 Junior champion. Then she trounced Miss Eleanor Goss, No. 5 ranking player in 1927, by the tidy score of 6-4, 6-0. In the finals she started to trounce Miss Edith Cross, No. 3 national ranker, by a burst...