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Chessplayer, = .::ead of E 256 Dominion Road, Auckland S.2. nl - :ou1cl 1trc,,.: Class I. concedes class IL exchauge ancl n--,.= -:eci.ing h:r- Vol. 3-No. 14 JUNE, 1950 (i.e., White removes eN; Black r-ernoies eE). u per cent fn all subsequent cases class I. has the ;r:- and concedes material as follorvs:_ = ,, To class III., ,a= PLEA CHESS HANDICAP QN: class IV., eR; class \i.. tre SYSTEMS and QN: class VI.. eR and eN: class VIL. e. subscrit Using the .', a gooct :_ AND GRADING rraluation given, it rvill be seen ::,:: :e l'easol :: each class is 1| pawns above'the next in orcler-. _. ;r' ,- HEN considering the question to put it another way, apoic; of handicapping the exchange abovL. esplesse , systems in chess, there is no doubt in our CHESSP'- mind about one thing: the existing scale of odds should be scrapped. yeais A hundred ago the : :lte e\-el:: latter may have been adequate; today it is juit not _ good .-Pl 1 1-- enough.