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Worcester College.
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Rupert Cross
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He was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was also completely blind from the age of 1, as a result of cancer of the eyes, and, before his distinguished legal career, was already well known as a chess player. As an undergraduate at Worcester College, Oxford, he represented Oxford University four times (1931-1934) on the top board in the prestigious annual Varsity chess match against Cambridge University.
He played several times in the top section of the British Chess Championship in the 1930s (for which only an elite group of twelve players qualified).
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