YOUTHFUL CHESS CHAMPION
(From "Tho Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 21st November. bouth Wales chess champion, the extraordinary 22-year-old Cecil Purdy, will win the Dominion championship tourney starting on Boxing Day. Chess apparently does not run in the Purdy family, for the young champion's father, Dr. J. S. Purdy, Metropolitan Medical Officer of Health in Sydney, formerly of Auckland, is said to know no more about chess than tho man in the moon. Father ana son are both well known in tho Dominion, the latter as the New Zealand champion of 1924 at the youthful age of 17. The amazing career of young Puray —a brainy-looking, studious youth in the chess world might suggest that this wildly exciting game is a form of monomania with him, but he is able to do quite a lot of other things successfully. He plays a iino game of tennis, for oxample; wields a facile pen as editor of the "Australasian Chess Bo view," and is. now completing an arts course at Sydney University. Chess, like golf, is apt to become a national menace with most players, but with young Purdy it has not bojcome a species of madness.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 11
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193YOUTHFUL CHESS CHAMPION Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 11
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