Word: combativeness
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...nigh desperate. If no more than 20 players enter, there can hardly be more than six players in the second round. And even strong players can play limp chess if they are left without strenuous competition. The advantage usually gained by the men that enter these tournaments is that combat between stranger styles that unfailingly leads to good chess at New York and good chess in the University. The position of sophomore champion ('98 and '99) lies now open, besides the University championship and the four guardships. If it must be that our chess spirit shall slacken in this crisis...
Townsend and Parker had a spirited and scientific combat. Parker is a left-handed fencer and able to take care of himself, but was hardly a match for his rival, whose work was more finished...
...inevitable workings of fate were never better illustrated; Phedre's fate is settled from the beginning of the play it is little short of madness for her to hope to successfully combat the will of the Gods...
...reasons for this we give substantially as they have been stated to us by one of the members. In the first place, they point out that no satisfactory method has yet been found for conducting the existing hall. The general table system is not a success, and students stoutly combat any plan which looks to an extension of this system. Any considerable permanent addition to the number of men at club tables is also opposed and there seems to be a strong desire for a return to club tables, with one man to one seat throughout the hall. This latter...
...class and then to the University than he would to the University taken alone. It is easier to commence with the part and work up to the whole than to take the whole at once. Besides this, there is considerable danger that specialization may lead to narrowness and, to combat this danger, all influences are to be welcomed that make us for a time feel the force of the efforts of other men and thus to judge of the true importance...