Word: rooke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving his knight unprotected after an exchange of queens. Dr. Alekhine declined this Grecian gift. He only needed to draw to complete the 15½ points that would decide the championship and he got what he wanted with the rook and pawn ending. He had won 11 games, lost 5, drawn 9. Immediately Señor José Capablanca* mailed Dr. Alekhine a challenge for a match to be played in Manhattan or in Bradley Beach...
When play ended on the first night of the 34th game, Alekhine had an advantage of one pawn; a blocked pawn on the queen's rook file. Play began the next night with the 41st move. On the 47th, both queens fell, leaving Alekhine with a rook, four pawns and the king. Capablanca refused to take the odd pawn at the price of exchanging rooks; Alekhine sent his king to destroy the Cuban's pawns and on the 82nd move, play stopped for the evening. The next night Capablanca did not, in the face of sure defeat, resume it. After...
Many years ago (in 680), a man child was born in an old Saxon family in Devonshire, and the child was christened Wynfrith. He studied at Exeter and early be-:ame a monk famed for his schollarship, his preaching. And he rook the name of Boniface...
...opening day Champion Capablanca was unable to do better than tie with Frenchman Janowski. For nine moves Janowski and Capa blanca followed closely the Queen's Gambit Declined. Then Janowski (white) surprised the champion by moving pawn to King's rook 4. The champion proceeded to play for a draw, and got it on the 20th move by cornering Janowski's king in perpetual check...
...protection of--er--the public, and are reserved to Allan Pinkerton's brave boys. If things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard...