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Tournament: 116th Varsity Match • Venue: RAC Club, Pall Mall, London • Date: 7 March 1998
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The 116th Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London on 7 March 1998. The match sponsors were the Brain Trust Charity.
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| Bd | Oxford University | Rating | Nat | 1998 | Cambridge University | Rating | Nat |
| 1b | Dharshan Kumaran (Green) | 2505g | ENG | 1-0 | Mark Ferguson (Queens') | 2410m | ENG |
| 2w | Jonathan Rowson (Keble) | 2485m | SCO | 1-0 | Brian Kelly (Trinity) | 2405 | IRL |
| 3b | Boyan Tonkov (Jesus) | 2320 | BUL | 0-1 | Harriet Hunt (St John's) | 2400wg | ENG |
| 4w | Maxim Devereaux (Brasenose) | 2215 | ENG | ½-½ | Aron Cohen (Queens') | 2265 | ENG |
| 5b | Aleksandar Trifunovic (St Anne's) | 2260 | ENG | ½-½ | David M Moskovic (Queens') | 2235 | ENG |
| 6w | Oliver Rosten (Somerville) | 2240 | ENG | 1-0 | Jack Rudd (Girton) | 2185 | ENG |
| 7b | Joel Ouaknine (St Cross) | 1-0 | Ben Morgan (Magdalene) | ENG | |||
| 8w | Emily Howard (Lincoln) | 2050 | ENG | 0-1 | Stuart White (Jesus) | 2030 | ENG |
| 5-3 | |||||||
"Oxford defeated Cambridge in the annual Varsity match held March 7 at the RAC Club in Pall Mall, London. The event is supported, appropriately, by The Brain Trust Charity and author and lecturer on the brain Tony Buzan who has pledged his continued support for the event for the next decade. Oxford, slight favourites on paper, avenged their defeat of last year with an exciting 5-3 victory. The overall scores are now Cambridge 50 Oxford 49 with 17 matches drawn." (CHESS, May 1998, p17)
Rowson v Kelly, best game (Oxford), Hunt v Tonkov, best game (Cambridge) (source: CHESS)
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