Brian Wurr Memorial Match

Crawford Macnab

12 May 2025

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

This is the fifth time we have played this match since the first one in 2017.

The teams were mostly level on grading with Corstorphine playing three J14 juniors.

The match was won 8½ - 4½ by Corstorphine which was their first victory in this competition.

Congratulations to Corstorphine on a well deserved victory and well done to the three juniors who all won their games.

Next time we may have the top board play their game using the Culloden style chess set!

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	1751	½ - ½	John A Massa	1890
2	Allan McDiarmid	1750	0 - 1	Chris Sykes	1739
3	Crawford T Macnab	1696	0 - 1	Jamie Hand	1613
4	Eric P Smith	1589	½ - ½	Brian Gourlay	1577
5	William L Lindved	1563	1 - 0	Palanivel Somasundaram	1495
6	Ralph Jackson	1551	0 - 1	Graham Wilson	1491
7	Paul Girdwood	1542	½ - ½	David Burns	1449
8	Stuart McKinney	1489	0 - 1	Srinivas Rath	1367
9	Douglas S Heatlie	1481	0 - 1	Richard K Dowling	1362
10	Gerry Brown	1441	1 - 0	Angus G Ruthven	1216
11	Patrick M Miller	1310	0 - 1	Raghav Palanivel
12	Derek McCann	1220	0 - 1	Alexander Malham
13	Alex Powell	1082	1 - 0	James D Crerar	821
				4½ - 8½

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