29-11-2011, 10:25 AM
Sadly, I hear that Derek Thomson died at the very early age of 48 in 1991, as a result of motor neurone disease. Douglas Bryson reports that Alan McGowan's excellent history section elsewhere on the CS website has recently added a brief biography of this very talented chess player under "biographies". He certainly put Scottish junior chess on the map around 1960 and would no doubt still be playing at a very high level had it not been for his tragically debilitating illness.