Matches
- 57th Varsity Match in April is won by Oxford over Cambridge, 5–2. Cambridge leads the overall series by 26 matches to 25, with 6 ties.
- Salo Flohr (Czechoslovakia) beats Henry Grob (Switzerland), 4½–1½.
- Reuben Fine defeats Arthur Dake +4−2=3 in a match held in New York City at the Marshall Chess Club and the Manhattan Chess Club.
- Flohr and Mikhail Botvinnik draw a match held in Moscow and Leningrad, 2 wins, 2 losses and eight draws each.
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