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Richardson Cup 1932
The final was played at the Edinburgh Chess Club on Saturday, February 13.
This was the first appearance of Fairhurst in a Richardson Cup final. He had moved to Glasgow to take up a professional position earlier in 1931, and he would go on to dominate all areas of chess in Scotland.
Play started at 3:15pm, and the report suggests that the openings chosen were, with one exception, of the close, positional type, indicating the mood of the players to take no risks. After an hour's play, indications were that the match would live up to the traditions of these matches between the two strongest clubs in the country - close, hard affairs, with little between the teams until the last hour or so of play.
Just before the tea interval the first games were completed; a somewhat featureless draw by repetition of moves at board 7, and a win for Glasgow on board 1 where Fairhurst produced some sharp play. Meantime, McKee on board 2 had sacrificed a piece for two pawns in the expectation of a good attack, but by the tea interval it was clear that the Edinburgh player had good chances of surviving the attack. On board 3 the Edinburgh player's prospects looked good, while on the other boards there was little in it either way.
The next hour's play, however, brought out the usual after-tea surprise in a good win for Glasgow at board 5, where with only Q and B to work with, Mr Birch evolved a position whereby with a series of divergent checks he forced the win of three pawns, and the rest was easy. Another agreed draw, at board 6, left the score 3-2 in Glasgow's favour but, as anticipated, the Edinburgh win at board 3 soon followed to level up the score, and now the match hung on the game at board 4. The position there was, if anything, in the home team's favour. The Glasgow player, realising that merely defensive play would probably be fatal, offered a pawn (which Mr Foster had been working to capture) in order to improve his position. Unfortunately for Edinburgh's hopes, the Glasgow player's trappy play was successful, as in the tension of play Mr Foster did not take the best line, and though the game was unfinished at the call of time the result - a win for Glasgow - was agreed to by the captains.
Bd |
Glasgow |
Edinburgh |
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1 |
W.A. Fairhurst | 1 |
0 |
D. Simpson |
2 |
J.A. McKee | 0 |
1 |
A.J.D. Lothian |
3 |
A. Murray | 0 |
1 |
R.T.R. Serjeant |
4 |
J. McGrouther | 1 |
0 |
A.A. Foster |
5 |
J. Birch | 1 |
0 |
M.Y. Moussa |
6 |
J.M. Nichol | ½ |
½ |
G.J. Hagart |
7 |
A. Martin | ½ |
½ |
P. Nisbet |
4 |
3 |
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W.A. Fairhurst - D. Simpson
Richardson Cup Final 1932, Board 1.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 b6 3.Nc3 Bb7 4.Qc2 e6 5.e4 Bb4 6.f3 0-0 7.Bg5 Be7 8.0-0-0 d5 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Bxe7 Nxe7 11.Kb1 c6 12.f4 Nd7 13.Nf3 Qc7 14.Bd3 Qxf4 15.Rhf1 Qb8 16.e5 Ng6 17.Ng5 c5 18.Bxg6 hxg6 19.Qf2 f6 20.Nxe6 Re8 21.dxc5 Nxe5 22.Nxg7 Kxg7 23.Qxf6+ Kg8 24.Rd7 Nxd7 25.Qxg6+ Kh8 26.Rf7 Re1+ 27.Kc2 Be4+ 28.Nxe4 Qg8 29.Qh6+ 1-0
R.T.R. Serjeant - A. Murray
Richardson Cup Final 1932, Board 3.
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Nf3 e6 7.Bg5 h6 8.Bh4 Be7 9.Nbd2 0-0 10.Bg3 b6 11.0-0 Bb7 12.Ne5 Nxe5 13.dxe5 Nd7 14.Nb3 a5 15.Nd4 Nc5 16.Bc2 Qd7 17.Qg4 Ne4 18.Bf4 Kh8 19.f3 Ng5 20.Bxg5 Bxg5 21.f4 Be7 22.f5 Bc5 23.f6 g6 24.Rad1 Ba6 25.Rf2 Kh7 26.h4 Rg8 27.h5 Raf8 28.Kh1 Bxd4 29.Rxd4 Bc8 30.Qg3 Qc7 31.Rh4 1-0
Source: Based on the report in The Scotsman of Monday, February 15, 1932.