POWERFUL CHESS TEAM FACES INTERCOLLEGIATE MATCHES

Having defeated a strong West Point team six to two, the Harvard Chess Team is favored to sweep the boards in the annual intercollegiate matches to he held this year at the Marshall Chess Club in New York City Starting today, and lasting three days until Friday, December 23. Princeton, last year's winner, has a well balanced team, and Yale and Dartmouth will have worthy aggregations, although Yale has already been defeated by West Point. After much selecting and pruning as a result of the Metropolitan League matches, the first team now includes M. L. Stark '33, Captain and present intercollegiate champion.

The H.Y.P.D. meet, as it is called, is played round-robin fashion. With four men on each of four challenging groups, the individual players contest against each other until all colleges have met.