Grandmaster Trifunovich Memphis 1962

"USA" Pilgrimage

By Dr. Petar Trifunovich, Oft-times Yugoslav Champion

Chess Review February 1963 (abridged)

As may easily be supposed, chess exhibitions are very popular in Yugoslavia, and there are but a few cities there at which I have not played in them.  It is the usual custom on such occasions for many chess enthusiasts to cluster about me with incessant questions about the countries which I have seen during my chess tours.  And they never fail to ask whether I have been in the United States of America — or, as we say it "USA," that is, in one word.  On my negative answer, a sigh of disappointment always follows.  "Oh! we thought you'd been there also."

Memphis Captain gives Promotion

Mississippi Historical Society publication of Centenary Series Vol. II 1861-1865

  Printed for the Society 1918

Excerpt 1:

The Noxubee Squadron, Mississippi Cavalry---Deupree

"In camp that night, the men of our company indulged in chess, checkers, cards, and other amusements, necessary to relieve the anxieties of the day. As is well known, chess is emphatically a game of war;
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