Janus: Records of the Cambridge University Chess Club

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Records of the Cambridge University Chess Club

Title	Records of the Cambridge University Chess Club
Reference	GBR/0265/SOC.81
Creator	Cambridge University Chess Club
Covering Dates	1890–1982
Extent and Medium	8 volumes; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Archives

Content and context

Chess has been played competitively in the university since at least 1873, the date of the first blues match against Oxford. The precise date of the club's foundation is unknown. It promotes chess both within the university and in the surrounding area. The club initially organised a championship for individual players and matches against a variety of other teams. It later developed an inter-collegiate league and a ''Cuppers'' competition. The club also holds social events, including an annual dinner, and publishes its own magazine. Mathematician M.H.A. Neumann (later Newmann, St John's College) was a member 1915-16 and 1919-22, as was physician Lionel Penrose in the years 1919-22 (St John's College) and mathematician, poet, and humanist Jacob Bronowski (Jesus College) in the late 1920s. Further information about the club's activities is on its website at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/chess/.

The records were transferred to the University Archives from the Manuscripts Department on 12 November 2007. They had been presented by Cambridge University Chess Club to the Manuscripts Department on 20 January 1978 and had been give the classmark Ms.Add.8173. SOC.81.1.1 and 81.2.1 were transferred from the Manuscripts Department in September 2012 where they had been deposited by the Club in 2001.

Access and Use

Please cite as Cambridge University Archives, Records of the Cambridge University Chess Club, SOC.81

Further information

Further printed records are in the Rare Books Department, Cambridge University Library (classmark: Cambridge Papers J 2772 and Cambridge Papers 2nd series, Societies 33).

The online catalogue entry for Janus was completed in November 2007 and emended in September 2012.

Index Terms

Chess

Clubs

Games (Leisure Activities)

Cambridge University Chess Club

University/SOC.81 contains:

SOC.81.1

Minutes of general and annual general meetings, signed.
2 volumes; paper; This volume is fragile. Its binding is cracked and the spine detached at the front..

1890–1966

SOC.81.2

Records of university matches.
3 volumes; paper.

1910–1968

SOC.81.3

Records of inter-collegiate competitions.
3 volumes; paper.

1959–1982