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‘These bouts had cash prizes and offered a way for insecure young people to feel good about themselves using the only thing they had: their bodies’
Legal scholar served as deputy secretary in U.S. departments of Treasury and State
September 22, 1929 ~ April 7, 2021 (age 91) On Wednesday April 6, supported by her caregivers and loved ones, Minnie Turyk passed away peacefully at the age of 91. Minnie was born in Rossland, B.C. into a large Scottish clan of 8 children and her parents, May and Seath Martin, who had immigrated to Canada in the early 1920s. She is the last of her siblings, who were a tight knit group, all living and raising their families in the Kootenays. Minnie always said they didn’t have very much growing up but remembered her mother making shortbread for all the local ladies and sneaking pieces of ...
€19.95 When Wim Andriessen founded Schaakbulletin in 1968 and shortly thereafter gave up his secure job at the college, many were quick to call him insane. Berry Withuis, a veteran of chess journalism, openly mocked him: "If you want to throw away your money in the Netherlands, you either waste it on women or create a chess magazine." After all, the local chess community was way too small to allow for a second publication to survive beside Schakend Nederland, the official magazine of the local chess association. And indeed, Schaakbulletin never really made any pro...