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Games - Chess - Groups (miscellaneous)
Games - Chess - Groups (miscellaneous)

Games - Chess - Groups (miscellaneous)

Date3/31/1998
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Original Toronto Star caption: Games, Chess, Groups (miscellaneous)
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008013F
Concentrating intensely on their boards, a group of youngsters compete in the Toronto public school chess finals at Bloor Collegiate on Saturday. More(...)
Concentrating intensely on their boards, a group of youngsters compete in the Toronto public school chess finals at Bloor Collegiate on Saturday. More(...)
3/14/1971
Metro chess mites try to check their mates, School chess champions lock pieces in the Metro Chess Challenge at Winchester Public School yesterday
Metro chess mites try to check their mates, School chess champions lock pieces in the Metro Chess Challenge at Winchester Public School yesterday
5/8/1987
The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess; together with An artificial memory; or, An easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist
The polite gamester: containing short treatises on the games of whist, quadrille, back-gammon, piquet and chess; together with An artificial memory; or, An easy method of assisting the memory of those that play at the game of whist
1745
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Games and sports: being an appendix to "Manly exercises" and "Exercises for ladies" containing the various in-door games and sports, the out-of-door games and sports, those of the seasons, &c. and omitting only games of hazard, and such games or sports as are either frivolous or dangerous
1837
Head-Clenching Novices Jimmy Holmes (left), 13, and Jack Heighton of Toronto plan moves at Toronto Chess Club's weekend Open Tourney. Star chess colum(...)
Head-Clenching Novices Jimmy Holmes (left), 13, and Jack Heighton of Toronto plan moves at Toronto Chess Club's weekend Open Tourney. Star chess colum(...)
3/26/1978
Perfect mates, Lawrence and Angela Day play chess at U of T Chess Club
Perfect mates, Lawrence and Angela Day play chess at U of T Chess Club
3/10/1976
Georgetown Chess Whizz, About 400 contenders, some from as far away as Germany, are competing for honors and $15,000 in prize money at 13th annual Canadian open chess championship in Toronto
Georgetown Chess Whizz, About 400 contenders, some from as far away as Germany, are competing for honors and $15,000 in prize money at 13th annual Canadian open chess championship in Toronto
8/1/1976
Improved rules for playing Flinch, the acme of parlor games
Improved rules for playing Flinch, the acme of parlor games
1903 circa
P.C. Allan's catalogue and price list of outdoor and indoor games and sports: headquarters for lawn tennis, cricket, football, base ball, lacrosse, bowls, archery, croquet, badminton, etc., etc. : parlor games and amus[ement]s of every description : also tents, hammocks, folding chairs and beds, and useful novelties.
P.C. Allan's catalogue and price list of outdoor and indoor games and sports: headquarters for lawn tennis, cricket, football, base ball, lacrosse, bowls, archery, croquet, badminton, etc., etc. : parlor games and amus[ement]s of every description : also tents, hammocks, folding chairs and beds, and useful novelties.
1892
Sports - Pan Am Games (1979) - Pan American Games (San Juan PR)
Sports - Pan Am Games (1979) - Pan American Games (San Juan PR)
7/5/1979
A group of men watch two chess players, all are sitting on a picnic table
Two chess buffs tolerate an audience for their duel in sunny Earl Bales Park in North York
8/11/1992
Checkmate: For the player who likes to keep talk to a minimum, this conversational chess challenger makes its move and then tells you, succincntly, all about it
Checkmate: For the player who likes to keep talk to a minimum, this conversational chess challenger makes its move and then tells you, succincntly, all about it
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