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The A G Sunderland Cup is a gold-coloured cup with two handles, mounted on a plastic plinth on which is a metal band to receive engraving.  (Pictured below.)

 

A humorous story attaches to it.

 

When the decision was made at the 1978 YCA AGM to form a fourth division, the then YCA honorary secretary, A G (“Geoff”) Sunderland offered to supply a trophy for it, at the same time pointing out that a name for the new trophy would need to be determined.  Accordingly, an individual from the floor of the meeting made some proposal which incorporated the word “memorial”.  It was something like the “AG Sunderland Memorial Cup”.  To this Geoff Sunderland adopted an expression of combined disgust, rebuke and ridicule, according to how you read it, and replied along the lines of, “At least wait till I’m dead!”

 

The simple “A G Sunderland Cup” was adopted.

 

In more recent years the fourth division of the Yorkshire league competition attracted too few teams to function properly, so it was informally converted into a jamboree-based competition which continued to provide useful competitive chess outside the “league”.  It was lasted contested on that basis in 2009-2010.  (Click here for list of winners.)

 

It was not contested in 2010-2011 or 2011-2012, so at the 2012 YCA AGM it was decided to apply it to a mooted new competition, ostensibly between champion clubs of local leagues, which it was planned should commence in 2012-13.

 

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A G Sunderland Cup

 

 

Created

25/04/2012

Copyright © 2012 Stephen John Mann

Last Updated

25/04/2012