The Intercollegiate Chess Association was recently formed at a convention in New York. It is designed to increase the interest in the game and the formation of chess clubs in colleges. Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania and Princeton constitute the present association, and Yale will undoubtedly join next fall.

The constitution provides for an executive committee, consisting of one man from each club, and by this committee the officers of the association are to be chosen. An annual tournament will be held about thanksgiving time at which each college can be represented by three men who shall play a consultation game with every other three; the college winning the greatest number of games to be declared the victor and to be presented with the championship trophy. The officers of the association are as follows: President, William Shillaber, jr., Columbia; vice-president, J. M. Brooks, Princeton; secretary, W. J. A. Bliss, Harvard: treasurer, George Henderson, U. of Pa.