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Tournament: 38th Varsity Match • Venue: St George's Chess Club, 2 Savile Row, London • Date: Monday 21 March 1910
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The 38th Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held at St George's Chess Club, 2 Savile Row, London, on Monday 21 March 1910.
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| Bd | Oxford University1 | vs | Cambridge University |
| 1w | Reuben Lob (Worcester) | ½-½ | John Matthias Bee (St Catharine's) |
| 2b | Alexander Percival Waterfield (Christ Church) | 1-0 | Frederick Russell Hoare (Trinity) |
| 3w | Herbert Neville Bewley (Wadham) | 0-1 | Henry Evans Foster (Trinity) |
| 4b | Edward Henry McGrath (Christ Church) | 0-1 | Gilbert Henry Stevens (Caius) |
| 5w | Robert Wilbur Burgess (Lincoln) | ½-½ | Shah Muhammad Sulaiman (Christ's) |
| 6b | Alan Grant Macfarlane (Worcester) | ½-½ | Frederick Edmund Glanville Southwell (St Catharine's) |
| 7w | Benjamin Allen Bull (Jesus) | 0-1 | Frederick James Saunders (Christ's) |
| 2½-4½ | |||
Main sources: Oxford-Cambridge Chess Matches (1873-1987), (compiled by Jeremy Gaige, Philadelphia 1987); Sergeant, Philip W, A Century of Chess (London 1934, referred to in the text as PWS); Ancestry.com; FindMyPast.com; Who Was Who 1897-2007; Wikipedia. All seven games available in the download.
Notes:
1 The original team selection as reported in the Daily News of 16 March was to have been R Lob (Worcester), A P Waterfield (Christ Church), J G Rennie (New – "Reussie" is given), H N Bewley (Wadham), W S Mackie (Christ Church), E H McGrath (Christ Church), R Biske (Wadham).
Year-Book of Chess 1911, p175: "Cambridge won very easily, though Oxford were favourites at the start, and but for weak play should at any rate have fared better than they did."
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| 17 April 2022 | Original upload. Biographical details and match reports to be added later. |