Last night, the Harvard Chess Club staged a simultaneous tourney in the Dunster Large Common Room with Harlow B. Daly, Massachusetts State Champion, as guest.

Daly not only faced the best talent that Harvard had to offer but attempted the sizeable feat to taking it all on at once. Four tables were set up in the form of a square, leaving a space inside for the state champion as he matched wits with 15 students, each with a separate chess board and lined up along the outside edges of the tables.

Pressing Need for Players

Every year, the Chess Club sends a five-man team to New York during Christmas vacation to compete in a tourney among teams of the Big Four colleges, who are fighting it out for possession of the Belden Stephens Trophy, a cup offered to the team which wins five years in succession.

Twice Harvard with four straight victories has been on the verge of success, but its string was broken in both classes in the following. Last winter, the team took the championship from Yale where it had been for two seasons.

The need for players on this year's team is pressing, emphasize club officials, since practically all the veterans have left college, In addition to entering the New York tourney, the club competes in the Boston Chess League and hold meetings throughout the year.

The tourney achieved its goal of ferreting out chess talent and stirring up interest in one of the world's oldest games. In addition three men succeeded in defeating the highly regarded and somewhat out-numbered opponent.