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Derek Geoffrey Horseman vs John Spencer Purdy
Training Tournament (1955), Birmingham ENG
Vienna Game: Vienna Gambit. Modern Variation (C29)  ·  1-0

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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-11-20
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  GrahamClayton: Purdy fails to castle, and Horseman sacrifices a pawn with 14. e6 to open lines for his pieces, which results in a piece sacrifice with 18. Ng6, leading to a mating attack.
Aug-12-20
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  fredthebear: Say What?!?

This is chess blasphemy!?!?

Oh, it's a bit of consolation that the Black player is the son of the great Australian chess teacher/writer CJS Purdy:

https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...

A snippet from Tartajubow:

" Like his father, <John Spencer Purdy> was known for a quality rarely seen in chess players today: his good sportsmanship and taking his losses with grace and when he won he always had a kind word for his opponent. "

Apr-19-25
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  GrahamClayton: "The big surprise in the tournament was the poor showing of the Australian Champion, John Purdy. He only won one game and was nearly always struggling in the others. [Purdy finished 8th of out the ten players with a score of 3.5/9 - +1, -3, =5,] Possibly his long journey to Europe may have unsettled his form, but it is obvious he will have to play much better than he did at Birmingham if he hopes to do well at Antwerp. This was the bad side of his results in the tournament. The good side is that he is a very likeable young man with very good sporting manners—an excellent ambassador for Australian chess."

British Chess Magazine, August 1955

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