Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week saw knights and bishops, queens and pawns go down again before master chess minds, with the close of the International Chess Masters' Tournament at Marienbad, Czecho-Slovakia, following the tournament at Baden-Baden (TIME, May 25). Alekhine, the Russian wizard who won at Baden-Baden, did not participate...
...Welcome home" in Czecho-Slovakia...
UNFUNDED France $4,210 Italy 2,138 Belgium 480 Russia 225 Czecho-Slovakia 118 Yugo-Slavia 65 Rumania 46 Austria 30 Esthonia 18 Greece 18 Armenia 15 Latvia 6 $7,369 FUNDED Great Britain $4,554 Poland 178 Finland 9 Lithuania 6 Hungary...
...that did not see a dozen monarchs overcome. Upon the neat battlefields, the gods of the nations were at war: Sir George Thomas for England, Spielmann for Austria, Rosselli for Italy, Jacques Mieses for Germany, Colle for Belgium, Alexander Alekhine for Russia, Niemzowitsch for Denmark, Richard Reti for Czecho-Slovakia, Frank J. Marshall for the U.S. and twelve more who had qualified for the International Chessmasters' Tournament...
Minds battled like searchlights fencing in a night sky. Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous shape, looming unseen behind him, directed with Gargantuan fingers the movement of his smaller hands upon the Lilliputian kings. Once, it is true, he made a misplay, uncovered his queen. The watchers sucked in their breath. Surely now this Merlin was done for. But his opponent, Spielmann...