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Game of Chess MARCH 1945 KEEP YOUR R.ED CROSS AT HIS SIDE 3S CENTS 1 Subscription Rate ~NE YEAR $3 MOLDED CHESSMEN FOLDING CHESSBOARDS H1~SE beautiful chessmen. tllO lucu of size most ('ommonly used In the home. genuine T enulte, are Ideal for home The standani set eOilles In nn attractive. T I1se. T he Staunton·type \wtterll is [wo-sel'llon, simulated leather ch('st. The dlstlnctlve and picnsing. !I I ore Important. :<U1dent set. Intended fOl' boanls Wttll }'h" the men arc Intensely pnH;t ical and wjJl or 1 %" s(j uar'cs. is SIlJlplied In a cardboard sHIII(1 hard usage. They [\1'0 made in two box. Both t ypes come in Black and 1I'0l'Y sizes, standard and student. The main or Hed and h 'orl', When onle ring. plea se pieces of the standard size ar(' shown specify which color comblnatloll you above on a board with 2·jnch squares- the "refer. No. 80 ( Black &. Iv ory) or No. 81 ( Red &. 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ISoviet Championship Game ••10 Howevel', aHel' carefully look· If we are to make any radical Game s From Recent Events .16 In g over the photographs of cbange in the piece names. let . t hese examples or Surrealis m, me suggest manhall , general, SERIALS I fall to b6 impressed by thfl chief·o [·start, armored corps, a ll" ILet's Play Chess ! ___________ 29 designs which are so simplified corps, engi neer·corps, s I g n a I , Two Kn ights' Defense ______ .28 and severe that there appears to corps, or perhaps the names ot be nothing o[ nolhlng. Smely sucl\ modem equ lp}nent a s untier the di sguise of lhls high tanks, howltze1's, alr·planes and DEPARTMENTS sounding title, art and design hulldozet·s. 01' lhe pieces could IChess Briefs __ __________ __ ~ _ 12 of the future Is going backward simply use the names or va l'l ous Chess. Movies _____________ __ 14 to the point O( disintegratioll milltal'y grades for II. small unlt Game of the Month ____ __ ___ 8 and degradation. To my point of such as a company. hI fact, any Problems ___ ___ __ ____ __ _____ 22 view thero is vory mUe differ· nomencill tlll'e suggestive of a Postal Chess _____ ___________ 24 ence In the designs of the chess· military operat ion would be con· Re aders' Games _____________ 33 men and the drawings, cutouts gruous. Then, of cou1"se, the Solitaire Chess __________ ____ 34 or clay mOd els made by the aver· several pieces would be rede' age First Grade 0 1" Kindergarten signed to symbolize tile newly pupil In school. adopted names, thus ellmhlating PhO/b h, Holm P"hn f~r CHESS REVIEW Is It sU Pllosed to be Art, this the arChaiC cl·owns. m itres and EDITORS & PUBLISHERS nlghtmal'e ot S\l rreallsm - the castles as well M the horses. KEEP YOUR RED CROSS 1. A. Horowitz, Ken neth Har kn e ... wlld hall ucination called "King now that tbe cl\valry haa been AT HIS SIDE POSTAL EDITOR of Chess", or the drab, depress· almost wholly motorlsed. 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