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At the center of the Square is the old Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, which held a newsstand Out of Town News until its close in 2020. A public motion art installation, Lumen Eclipse, shows monthly exhibitions of local, national, and international artists. Chess players in Harvard Square
Esserman began playing chess at the age of 7. Scholastic competition resulted in two national team titles in 1994 and 1995. [1] In April 1997, at the first-ever Super Nationals in Knoxville, Tennessee, he went undefeated (7–0) to become the K–8 co-champion, edging out several players rated over 400 points higher. [2]
In 2019, when Jennifer Yu scored 10/11 in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship, [21] Jennifer Shahade, a two-time U.S. women's champion stated, "[Yu] blew the competition out of the water, her performance is one of the best I've ever seen; [the fact that Yu won] so many games against professional adults, as well as girls, is just really ...
Even as the square’s great economic engine Harvard University opened up it just seemed to take a long time before street life vitality came back. Finally, the eminently strollable square almost ...
In February 2016, a video of Ashley defeating a "trash-talking" amateur chess player in Washington Square Park went viral. [17] [18] The incident was referenced in an episode of Billions where Ashley portrayed the chess hustler. On April 13, 2016, Ashley was inducted into the US Chess Hall of Fame along with Chess Grandmaster Gata Kamsky. [19]
Wolff is also the author of the Complete Idiot's Guide to Chess. He graduated from Harvard College in 1996, and the trophy of the annual Harvard-Yale intercollegiate chess match is named the Wolff Cup in his honor, as he remains the only grandmaster to participate in the match as a member of both colleges (beginning at Yale University and ...
William Gerard (Bill) Robertie (born July 9, 1946, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) is a backgammon, chess, and poker player, author and teacher. He is one of several (6 as of 2022) backgammon players to have won the World Backgammon Championship twice (in 1983 and in 1987). Besides the World Championship wins in Monte Carlo ...
A Harvard survey showed that many students in the class of 2024 did not feel comfortable sharing "controversial opinions" in class. According to The Harvard Crimson, only one-third of Harvard’s ...