Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...champion is four years younger than the old. He was born in Moscow and achieved the foundation of his present eminence when he won the Russian National tournament in 1909. To him, chess is less a philosophy than a war. He imagines the chessmen as weapons, not as words; his play is marked from the beginning with a sort of slow-burning and intricate belligerence...
...Alekhine left Russia where aristocratic sympathies made residence dangerous. Since then his eager face has made a shadow upon chess boards in many a country Every game he plays Alexander Alekhine remembers. He can describe without scorebook, the moves in almost any game played in any important tournament in the last 30 years. He speaks six languages. In 1929, probably, he will defend his title against Capablanca...
...attempt to advance the University team's standing from second to first place in the squash tournament held by the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association, the four University teams will enter the meet Saturday greatly improved and confident of victory, according to Coach Harry Cowles. Team A, which defeated the Union Boat Club last week, will meet the racquetmen from the Harvard Club of Boston in Cambridge. At the University club in Boston, Team B will encounter the University club players. Team C will take on the Walkover club team. The Freshman team, which was the only University team to lose...
...Union Squash tournament begins today, it was announced by Davidson Summers 1L, graduate secretary of the organization last night...
...members of the Union who wish I take part in the tournament must sign up in the blue books at the Union by Thurs in the blue books at the Union tomorrow noon...