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Chess Club Grows

League competitions have continued to give quite favourable results to the Varsity teams.

The A Grade team scored a comfortable win against Hutt by 3½1½ with one game to play, showing the benefit of the practice gained in earlier matches where the results were not so good.

Varsity
Steele	1
Wood	½
Renderson	1
Jamieson	1
Button	0
	3½

Hutt
Wade	0
Hansford	½
Fisher	0
Murch	0
Smythe	1
	1/½

The top-board game was the first defeat suffered by the New Zealand champion in League play since 1938. Perhaps the fact that he is this Club's Patron may have had something to do with it!

In the Wellington-Auckland telegraphic Chess match, V.U.C. was represented by present students on 25% of the boards, i.e., Boards 1, 5, 10, 14 and 15, which speaks well for the standard of the present students, particularly as they scored 4 out of 5 for the team.

At a recent meeting of the Club Committee it was decided that as the sets available were of very poor quality, it would be better to wait until the beginning of next year before starting the club's internal activity, in the hope of there being more likelihood of good sets available.

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