John Purdy (chess player)

John Purdy (chess player)

John Purdy (born 25 September 1935, Sydney) is an Australian chess player. He won the Australian Chess Championship twice, in 1955 and 1963.

His father Cecil John Seddon Purdy, and grandfather Spencer Crakanthorp were also Australian chess champions. [http://members.tripod.com/~scalise/scalise4/19311960.html]

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FIDE rating card for [http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=3200353 John Purdy]


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