We reproduce below a game between two Cambridge graduates, the winner, Professor Cox, having gone to Cambridge as a freshman in 1870 and the loser, Mr. Dutt, in 1912! The game was the first loss credited to Mr. Dutt after five consecutive wins, and players will easily detect where he gave his opponent the chance to undermine his game.
The competitors were more interesting than the game.
Clemens Palme Dutt was the brother of the more famous Rajani Palme Dutt a fellow founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain, also in 1920 - so his mind might have been elsewhere during the game. A biography of Clemens Palme Dutt can be found here https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects ... palme-dutt. Curiously, Dutt married a daughter of Labour Leader George Lansbury, making him the uncle of Angela Lansbury aka Mrs Marple.The death is announced of Dr John Cox, formerly Professor of Physics in M'Gill University, Montreal. Born in 1851, he was contemporary and competitor for scholastic honours at the City of London School with his friend Mr Asquith. He encouraged the work of Rutherford and Soddy in research into radioactivity. (Aberdeen Press and Journal - Saturday 26 May 1923)