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Event: (unofficial) Varsity Match • Venue: Cambridge • Date: 3 March 1945 • last edited:
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This unofficial Varsity Chess Match between Oxford University and Cambridge University was held in Cambridge on 3 March 1945. No game scores from this match are available.
| Bd | Oxford University | 1945 | Cambridge University |
| 1 | Robin Charles Oliver Matthews (Corpus Christi) | 0-1 | David Russell Bland (Trinity) |
| 2 | John Ouvry Lindfield Roberts (Wadham) | ½-½ | Basil Vivian Landau (Queens') |
| 3 | Adrian David Hugh Bivar (Corpus Christi) | 0-1 | James Malcolm Mitford Veitch (St John's) |
| 4 | Geoffrey Clendon Daukes (Trinity) | 1-0 | Thomas Brindley Booth (Trinity) |
| 5 | Edward Chorley Crosfield (Balliol) | 0-1 | John Cedric Shepherdson (Trinity) |
| 6 | Duncan Amos Watson (St Edmund Hall) | 0-1 | Thomas Stobart Rawlinson (Sidney Sussex) |
| 7 | Peter Anscar Williams (Corpus Christi) | 0-1 | Hugo Boyes Johnson (Pembroke) |
| 1½-5½ |
Sources: Oxford-Cambridge Chess Matches (1873-1987), compiled by Jeremy Gaige, Philadelphia 1987; BCM, April 1945, p89 & May 1945, p112.
Notes
Venue: Cambridge (not known precisely where in Cambridge). Colours, openings not known.
[BCM, Apr 1945, p89] "Cambridge University beat Oxford University at Cambridge on March 3rd, the score being 5½-1½.
[BCM, May 1945, p112] "Last month we announced the result of the Oxford and Cambridge match. Here is the full score:-..."