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Tournament: 27th Varsity Match • Venue: British Chess Club, 37 King Street, London • Date: Friday 24 March 1899
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The 27th Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held at British Chess Club, 37 King Street, Covent Garden, London, on Friday 24 March 1899.
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Bd | Oxford University | vs | Cambridge University |
1b | Arthur Hereford Wykeham George (New) | 0-1 | Creassey Edward Cecil Tattersall (Trinity) |
2w | Arthur Percival Lacy Hulbert (Keble) | 0-1 | Lachlan McLean (King's) |
3b | Gerald Edward Harold Ellis (Lincoln) | 0-1 | Harold Goodlake Softlaw (Trinity Hall) |
4w | Frederick Soddy (Merton) | 0-1 | Alexander Fotheringham (Emmanuel) |
5b | Frederick Augustus Babcock (Wadham) | ½-½ | Richard Samuel Makower (Trinity) |
6w | Harold Hilton (Magdalen) | 1-0 | Joseph Edmund Wright (Trinity) |
7b | Lionel Giles (Wadham) | 0-1 | Clement Christopher Wiles (St John's) |
1½-5½ |
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 are available in the download.
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17 April 2022 | Original upload. Biographical details and match reports to be added later. |