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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29858, 26 June 1962, Page 8

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F. A. Foulds Wins F. A. Foulds <Auckland' has won the New Zealand Correspondence Chees Avocation's 1931-62 championshm. joining the verv few who hove he'd at different times both this and the New Zealand over-t he -board cham-pion-rtiip Foulds was the only unbeaten player in the top grade of the correspondence obampionstvip. scoring six wins and three draws Second nlace wen.* to T van D<ik (Invercargill', with ,T. A M van Pe't (Auckland) third. In fourth place was J. A. Cunningham Pe blind p'ayer from Dunedin, who wrs l-st wear's champion B E Howard (Auckland), in his first season in correspondence chess, won the wade IB tournament R J Browne (Auckland) was first in grade IC. E V Stack I'Palme-wtcn North' in grade 2. R W. Perrott (Havelock North' in grade 3. V. Goodicr (Wellington) in grade 4. and J. W. St. Hill-Davies (Duned!n) in grade 5. Goodier and Hill-Davies were new to the tournaments. An Ashburton player. P W. Boag. won the handicap tournament. R Lindley (Hawera) was second and C Whitehouse 'Auckland' third Tn the assoe’ation’s first annual ranking list, based on games from the 1955-56 season onwards. L. Everman (Dunedin) is placed first with an assessment of 848, Fou’ds second with 815. A. J. McDermott (Dunedin) third with 808. van Dijk fourth with 805 and Cunningham and van Pelt equal fifth with 775. The hlghert-ranknng Canterbury player is N. E. H. Fulton (Ashburton), who is placed seventeenth with 684 points Fulton did not play in the latest championship tournament.