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where his friends encourage him to take up chess competitively at the age of 13. Less than two years later, in 1951, he was the
Australian Junior Chess Champion. Purdy won the title in the last round with 9½ points when John Bailey, the NSW Junior Champion could only manage a draw to finish on 9
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English-language chess writers and teachers". His mother was Anne (née Crakanthorp, 1915–2013) and who held the lease of Greenwich Baths on
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