The last match of the calendar year saw the Oxford & Cambridge beat Roehampton 4-0 in the HR Cup.
O&C remain in second place with the RAC in pole position as the new year beckons.
Season’s greetings to all!
We have just added a link in our top menu to a list of all the previous winners of the Hamilton-Russell Cup.
On a cursory glance I divide up the tournament into the following eras:
Since 1985, it has been much more of a mixed bag with the Oxford & Cambridge and the MCC joining the RAC and the Athenaeum as multiple winners.
The only winners of the Cup in just one year are – Imperial Chess Club (1939) and Hurlingham (joint winners in 1988)
Chelsea Arts won away from home against Roehampton 0-5 in the HR Cup.
The Oriental/East India drew at home to the Oxford & Cambridge with 2.5 points apiece. The new table and results files will be posted once this week’s other results are in.
Many thanks to Teddy Bourne from The Reform for passing on some of their archive including a reference to the Hamilton-Russell Cup from 1926 where an internal letter to Reform Club chess members alludes to “notices may appear in The Times under the chess column and probably in The Field.”
Does anybody have any access to the reports referred to and any knowledge of why The Field in particular would be reporting on the chess matches?
In the friendly last night at Lords, the MCC just lost out to the RAC 3.5 – 4.5
The Reform lost at home to the Hurlingham 2.5 – 3.5 in a friendly match tonight.
For those of you interested in the Hamilton-Russell Cup history, here is an outline of how the 1926 season ended:
The National Liberal Club won with 8½/9, conceding a draw to the Royal Automobile Club, who finished 2nd on 7½, losing to the British Empire Club. The Junior Constitutional Club finished on 7/9, followed, after a sizeable gap by the Savile Club, the British Empire Club, the Reform Club, the Authors’ Club, the Constitutional Club, the Conservative Club and finally the Athenaeum.
Many thanks, once more, to Martin Smith, for providing the info above, which originally comes from the British Chess Magazine.
The Hurlingham and The Athenaeum drew 2-2 in a friendly.
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