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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1934

Chess Club

page 142

Chess Club

This year has been very successful as far as the Chess Club is concerned. The season was opened by a Free-for-all Tournament with a time limit of ten seconds an each move. This was most enjoyable as by the end of the evening everybody had played everybody and some good games were played. We were lucky enough to obtain the use of the Geology Lab. this year for our practice nights, but unfortunately the great enthusiasm displayed at the General Meeting waned during the latter half of the second term, and the attendance at the Monday evening practice nights became poorer and poorer as the term went on. However, there was one place in the College where enthusiasm did not falter—in the Honours Chemistry Lab., where one could observe a game in progress at any hour of the day or night.

We entered a team in the "B" Grade Championship Competition of the Wellington Chess League and this has been the Club's main activity for this year. The strongest team the Club has shown for several years was available theoretically, but somehow it was able to be played only once, the rest of the matches being played with teams of varying calibre. In spite of all this we were only able to win the easiest of our matches—the bye, but some very fine individual games have been put up against the other clubs. The detailed results are:—

1 Miramar-Seatoun Varsity 1½
2 A Bye
3 Brooklyn Fire Brigade Varsity 24
4 Hutt 3 Varsity 3
5 Shell 44 Varsity 14

There were fewer matches this year as the "B" grade was divided into two sections so that our opposition was narrowed somewhat, but we were fortunate enough to be entertained away from the College in three out of four of our matches. Although we solved the problem of a clubroom this year the problem of equipment is still being wrestled with, but the Executive of the Students' Association did not see eye to eye with us about the purchase of good match equipment so that we are still using our old men and boards for matches against our visitors, but anyway we can get a good game with them.

To finish off the season, negotiations for a match Staff v. Students are under way, and it is hoped that all interested will turn up to see it, or at least try next year to swell the numbers of the Club.