Chess Team Prepares

Harvard's chess team will prepare to defend its Ivy League championship for the third straight time at its opening meeting tonight in the Kirkland House dining room.

Four of the five players who returned the title to Cambridge last spring are back, but there are holes to fill on the second and third teams, which compete along with the varsity in the Boston Metropolitan Chess League season from November to April.

Captain Bill Robertie and club president Doug Myers are hopeful that this year's team may bring the national championship to Harvard for the first time in history and at the same time are looking for all interested chess players to show up at tonight's meeting.