Sad news: George Clarke, long-time member of Stirling chess club, died last Saturday on Mull, where he had been living with his daughter Rhona and family for the past few years. He was 90. George was a keen player rather than a strong one, and put in a great amount of effort at the club, being secretary and competitions organiser until the middle of the last decade. He was particularly keen on seeing juniors take up the game. He was very energetic on the publicity side of things, using his various contacts to organise chess displays at shops such as Tesco and also submitting weekly reports and puzzles to the Stirling Observer. He liked to see the season end with the club's strongest player giving a simultaneous display against the rest of the club, a tradition that has lapsed in recent years.
George was certainly a significant, distinctive and widely known member of Stirling chess club (he joined in 1985 and retained his membership even after the move to Mull), and he never missed a chance to mention it in a wider context, for instance there is a page about the club in the memoir which he produced in 2013. He was also a good friend of the club stalwart and strong player Maxwell Thornton, and with his passing another link with those days has gone.
Condolences to George's family.
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