Brian Wurr Memorial Match

Crawford Macnab

10 June 2024

Corstorphine were the visitors to compete for the Brian Wurr Memorial trophy.

This is the first time we have managed to schedule this match since we played twice in 2021-22.

We were stronger on paper though with ungraded players on the lower boards you can never be sure.

The match was won 8½ - 3½ with most of the boards being strongly contested.

So we still maintain our 100% success in this competition. Corstorphine will need to field more of their first team players in the future!

For those not aware of Brian Wurr, here are some details from the Corstorphine web site:

BRIAN WURR MEMORIAL TROPHY MATCH

The Brian Wurr Memorial Trophy was gifted to the club by Sheila Wurr, widow of Brian Wurr who was a Civil Servant working in the Inland Revenue. It consists of a Battle of Culloden Chess Set shown below and is awarded annually to the winner of a challenge match between the chess club and a team from the Edinburgh Civil Service Chess Club.

	Civil Service		Civil Service		Corstorphine		Corstorphine
1	Charles Gunn-Russell	1763	½ - ½	Chris Sykes	1766
2	Allan McDiarmid	1751	1 - 0	Jamie Hand	1555
3	Crawford Macnab	1716	1 - 0	Graham Wilson	1543
4	Ralph Jackson	1651	½ - ½	Brian Gourlay	1534
5	Eric Smith	1601	½ - ½	David Burns	1472
6	Paul Girdwood	1564	½ - ½	Srinivas Rath	1193
7	Stuart McKinney	1464	½ - ½	Angus Ruthven	1197
8	Patrick Miller	1413	1 - 0	Rishi Kumar
9	João Reis	1410	1 - 0	Jorgen Grondal
10	Gerry Brown	1342	0 - 1	Tom Curtin
11	Lewis Pantony	1293e	1 - 0	Connor Reilly
12	William Maier	1215e	1 - 0	Frank Ribbons
				8½ - 3½

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