Word: tournament
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Upper Dane on Saturday the Chess Club easily won the tournament with the chess club from Phillips Andover. The Harvard players lost but one game out of eleven, and this was won by an Andover instructor...
...Harvard men who will compete in the fifth annual intercollegiate chess tournament between Columbia, Harvard, Yale and Princeton, which is to be played at the Columbia Grammar School in New York on December 28 to January 2 inclusive have been chosen and are as follows: Arthur W. Ryder '97, Elmer E. Southard '97; substitutes, Walter C. Arensburg '00, and James Hewins...
...Yale chess club has secured the services of Major Hannam, the New York chess expert, to coach the Yale players in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament. Yale's preliminary list has not yet been received, but it is semi-officially announced that W. M. Murdoch of last year's team will play, with probably Lehlbach or Arvine...
...early to speculate at all effectively on the result of this year's cup tournament. for the reasons that the final pairs have in few cases been made up and that the preliminary lists exhibit new men of generally unknown strength. But the old men have had in most instances such incentives to improvement that the '96 tournament will doubtless outstrip its predecessors just as previous tournaments have in average chess quality...
Tickets for the tournament may be had at Leavitt and Peirce's. Price, 50 cents...