The Glorney Cup was held last month at Carrickdale Hotel and Spa, Co Louth, 71 years after the initial competition between schoolboy teams representing Ireland and England took place in Dublin on the 26th and 27th August 1948.
We have previously profiled Cecil Parker Glorney, the Dublin businessman and philathropist who had donated the eponymous Cup. At that time we reported that no games of his seemed to be available. Now, at long last, we have found one of his games (or rather the final stages of one) in the chess column of the Dublin Evening Herald.
C. Parker Glorney – Imre König
Simultaneous display, Dublin, 31st October 1951
[Source: Dublin Evening Herald, 22nd December 1951, page 4]
“When the distinguished Yugoslav master, Imre König, visited Dublin recently, he gave a simultaneous display at the Rathmines Chess Club, playing 16 games altogether.
The President of the Club, Mr. C.P. Glorney, a very able player, achieved the honour of being the only one to defeat Mr. König and as the following score of the endgame shows he certainly caught his opponent napping.”
[Norman Walker, the editor of the Evening Herald chess column]
1.Bg5 Ne8 2.Nc4 f6? 3.Nxb6 Qd8 4.Nxa8 fxg5
König presumably hoped to follow up with a capture of the Knight on a8 and more or less restore the material balance, but the now open f-file provided Glorney with the opportunity to give his distinguished opponent the choice of allowing checkmate or facing a catastrophic loss of material.
5.Bc4+ d5 6.Bxd5+ and Black resigned.