Varsity Chess Match, 2 March 2024

[John Saunders]

The 142nd Varsity match between Oxford and Cambridge is currently in progress at the RAC, Pall Mall, London.

Live games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/varsity-m ... H2do#games

BritBase: https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/2 ... iewer.html

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Nice piece in the Financial Times from Leonard Barden on this year's Varsity Match:

https://www.ft.com/content/f6f4bd63-bd3 ... 1b03fee550

Oxford’s top board and captain, Tom O’Gorman, equalled the individual match record by winning for the fourth year in a row. O’Gorman uniquely won all his four games on top board with the white pieces. It is the first time that 4/4 has been achieved in the 21st century, after twice in the 20th and three times in the 19th.

Nice tip of the hat to John Saunders:

John Saunders’s encyclopedic and highly informative Britbase

I won't quote from the rest of the article, but some other nice bits there, including opening bloopers from yesteryear.