Chess Club Opens Its Season With an Exhibition in Union

The Harvard Chess Club opened its season with a simultaneous exhibition at the Union last night. Sidney S. Coggan 1L, treasurer of the club and Intercollegiate Chess Champion of the United States, played ten games simultaneously against Freshman opponents.

Outstanding among the Freshmen was W. J. Lourie, Jr., who won a hotly contested game from Coggan on the forty-second move. The game began with a Vienna opening and culminated in a neat maneuver which won Mr. Coggan's queen.

The only other Freshman to defeat Coggan was John Moore, who played the Queen's Pawn opening and forced Coggan to resign on the 40th move after the loss of his castle.

The Freshman entires for the club are of unusually high calibre this year. Last night represented the first time in eleven years that he has twice been defeated at the opening exhibition.

A tournament will now be arranged to determine the ranking of the new members.