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...double-faced clocks, which inexorably mark the time limits for tournament chess players, ticked off the carefully allotted seconds at Havana's Capablanca Chess Club. It was the final of a 23-day round-robin tournament involving 23 chess masters from eight countries.* The frowning concentration of the chess grand masters had barely been ruffled by the Cuban revolution. On the final day of play last week, first place was narrowed down to two Polish-born players: Samuel Reshevsky, 40, five-time U.S. champion, who toured his adopted land as a nine-year-old prodigy, jmd Argentina...
Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...ROBIN DOUGLAS Chicago
George Sella, ex-Princeton All-America, sparked the Screws to a 58 to 26 victory over the New D-1's in the Business School's championship round robin tournament last night. Sella scored 34 points...
...first two teams in each of the three Business School leagues are entered in the round robin tournament. Play started last Monday night, and will conclude with two games this evening...