Where both grandfathers taught, and the chess games began
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The Adventist college in Lincoln, Nebraska where William L. Whitson took his bachelor's degree and where both of Jonathan Hare's grandfathers were professors. They were close friends there.
After they moved apart they kept playing chess by post, their wives posting the moves. That friendship is why Hare's father, having lost his own father, was invited to stay with the Whitsons — and how Hare's parents met.
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