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Chess
from May 1972
by StPetersYork
The Chess Club has been well supported this year, with a total membership of nearly 40 and a regular band of 20 enthusiasts at weekly meetings. Competition in the Chess Ladder has been fierce, among both juniors and seniors, and some of our best players have been Maycock, Winstanley, Gillgrass, Hills, Clegg and Larcombe—a notable contribution from School House, especially.
In the York and District Junior Chess Championships we had entrants in all three sections, and Matthews and Larcombe did particularly well in the Under-Thirteen Section, the latter reaching the final, only to
lose to Gardiner, from St. Olave's.
In the Easter term the House Chess Competition produced several good matches, Queen's taking the trophy by beating Temple in the final.
A.J.L.
ELECTRONICS CLUB
The Christmas term saw a great deal of activity in the club. Several
films were shown at the first meeting on thermionic valve construction.
A talk was arranged for the second meeting, to be given by a member
of York Amateur Radio Society, Mr. Keith Cass (G3WVO), who gave an informal lecture on the basic principles of Amateur Radio, followed
by a demonstration of his home built transreceiver which, when plugged into the CCF aerial, yielded a few local radio amateurs on 160 metres, after some careful tuning and adjustments.
The third meeting, harping on the same theme, but to a much more
advanced level, was a talk on propagation theory by Dr. T. M. Newland
(G3TMN), who very kindly filled a laboratory with some of his transmitting and receiving equipment, together with tape recordings of King
Hussein, who is himself a radio amateur. Within a short space of time two American amateurs were contacted, in Great Falls, Montana, and finally after much interesting discussion across the Atlantic, a more local tcontact from County Durham.
The final meeting was given by Sam Taylor, on the theory of electronic
sound with demonstrations using his home-built equipment, and stereo tapes of self-composed electronic music.
Members continue to use the lab facilities for constructional projects,
with great enthusiasm.
