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Prompt: Chess with dice was a spectacle to behold:

Chess with dice was a spectacle to behold: a room full of young men and women wearing formal dinner jackets, black orchid-bud neckties, silk shirt, and tails, seated at an oval black-and-white checkered table, playing the game with a set of twelve ivory cubes with white dots in them. There was no shortage of drama. The competition was intense and unpredictable; a man might beat a woman by a single point in one game, and yet lose to her a few days later. When a player was eliminated he was given a white silk scarf, and the gamesmen were instructed not to shake hands after a win.