6 AUGUST 1994, Page 25

Castled

Sir: Thank you for detailing Lord Rennell's 3...Nxe4? when playing the Petroff Defence in The Spectator chess match between the House of Lords and the House of Com- mons (Chess, 30 July). An unassailable argument against the hereditary peerage, surely?

Dave Osier

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