The reel opens with players for the chess tournament arriving at the University of Nottingham for the opening ceremony held on 10 August 1936 where they greeted by organisers including J.N. Derbyshire (who was president of the Nottinghamshire Chess Association) and officials from the university staff. Photographs are taken and we then see speeches being made from a stage, including Canon A.G. Gordon Ross (President of the British Chess Federation), the Sherrif of Nottingham, Councillor E. Mitchell and J.N. Derbyshire. There are also shots of the audience.
We then cut to the garden at Rempstone Hall (the home of J.N. Derbyshire). After views of roses and the garden (in fairly dark colour) we return to b/w where there are shots of guests to a garden party entering and leaving a marquee (these include the chess players seen earlier). The guests are later seen playing golf in the grounds and also trying out skittles. A caption indicates that one of the skittles players is Dr Lasker who is captioned as 'world chess champion for 26 years' (this is the German born player Emanuel Lasker). Another caption points out Mme. Botvinnik in a group (she is the wife of the Soviet player Mikhail Botvinnik who is also present).
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This film shows the chess great Emanuel Lasker late in his life. As a Jew he had already fled Germany for a new life in the USSR which was cut short in 1937 by the threat of Stalin's purges forcing him to again move to his final home of the USA.