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Competition

Lexicography Torn Castro I n Competition No. 1529 you were asked to give definitions along the lines of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary, re- flecting our own times. .J. B.......

Chess

Warlike moves Raymond Keene C hess, it is widely believed, originated as an Oriental paradigm of battle around two thousand years ago. Various legends explain chess as a war......