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Despite the absence of several key players, the Harvard-Radcliffe A Chess Team swept to a second place finish behind CCNY at the Ivy League Invitational Tournament last weekend...
Koretsky, the team's president, had an explanation for the second place finish. "You've got to remember CCNY is 110 times larger than Harvard and has many more resources in terms of chess players," he said. "New York is the mecca of chess in this country...
...papers had yet admitted the true extent of the Israeli advances on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Apparently oblivious to the Israeli troops less than 60 miles away, Cairenes continued to crowd the cafes of New Street, where men sat sipping thick coffee and intently playing chess and backgammon. Worshipers gathered at the mosque of Zeinab for noon prayers. Peddlers, as always, hawked their roses on the streets...
Isabelita soon became Perón's most effective voice in exile, carrying his commands to Justicialists throughout Argentina. In 1971, when it seemed that warring factions would destroy the movement, Perón, in the words of chess-conscious Argentines, "moved his queen." Isabelita was dispatched to Buenos Aires, where she reminded her countrymen that "Perón is the only Peronist presidential candidate...
...ridiculed - and still plays on, as much for the audience as for himself. (After all, who ends up paying for those $70,000-a-minute commercials - and those $100,000 bonuses?) In the process, the viewer receives a game of infinite hue and complexity, an amalgam of ballet, combat, chess and mugging. No matter how fine his TV reception, no beer-and-armchair quarterback can hope to see the true game. For all the paraphernalia, the tube rarely shows an overview; pass patterns and geometric variations are lost in a kaleidoscope of closeups and crunches...