Word: sicilian
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Cunningham said he played better than usual in his game, a Sicilian defense that departed from the book on the second move...
Corey said yesterday that the quality of the play made his victory much sweeter. "That game's got to be one of my favorities," Corey said. "There weren't say real blunders by either side; it was a demonstration of a strategy, not technique." Corey played a Sicilian Defense (. . . . P-QB 4) and took full advantage of a weakness in opponent Jon Edward's pawn structure...
Anderson's game, also a Sicilian defense, included a next gambit, sacrificing a bishop on the 17th move. But the steam went out of him when he found he's he missed his ride back to Cambridge. "I ended up having to hitch," he said...
...Alioto believes that he has been through the worst of it. As enthusiastic and outgoing as ever, the bull-shouldered son of a Sicilian-born fisherman hopes that his political fortunes are back where they were in 1968, when he delivered the nominating speech for Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey, was briefly considered for the vice-presidential nomination and was widely regarded as one of the party's rising new talents. "I don't come from a wailing tradition," Alioto says. "We take life as it is. It is a tough life, and we know it is. They have...
...less relation to the underworld history of the past four decades than to old Edward G. Robinson bloodlettings on the Warner Brothers back lot. In the traditional Robinson role of the chairman of the thugs is Joseph Wiseman, a usually reliable actor who has mysteriously decided to portray the Sicilian overlord Salvatore Maranzano in an accent that is pure Transylvanian. Maranzano divides the gangs all over the country into families, then stands back and watches the fun, quoting Julius Caesar and letting the profits accrue until he himself is finally eliminated by an enterprising rival. Various beatings, tortures and murders...