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George Duke wrote on Sat, Nov 2, 2013 07:40 PM UTC:
What was happening 50 years ago? Halloween is over, where last comment were found several 10-year-old memorials relating to Chess and CVs. The next relevant Chessic milestone this new month appears to be 50 years ago, in that on 22.November.1963 was President John Kennedy's death by assassin.

Bill Wall's researches uncover: Pres&Chess. There the USA Presidents having well-known Chess skill or involvement include avid player William Jefferson Clinton and polymath Thomas Jefferson.

Strong Chess player was Rutherford Hayes, the first of the six Presidents from Ohio over 1877-1923. One of the others from Ohio James Garfield was not only strong Chess player but mathematician with this proof of Pythagorean Theorem: Garfield's_Proof. Garfield was one of the three Presidents killed by bullet from 1865 to 1900, as was Kennedy 1963.

Statesman Benjamin Franklin wrote "The Morals of Chess" in 1779 pre-USA a decade before the first President and forming of USA republic with its Constitution taking effect March 1789: Morals_of_Chess.


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