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Adrian Errol Turner

Number of games in database: 10
Years covered: 1951 to 1956
Overall record: +5 -4 =1 (55.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ADRIAN ERROL TURNER
(born Apr-29-1922, died Nov-07-2005, 83 years old) New Zealand

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Adrian Turner saw overseas service with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War 2. On his return to civilian life he obtained a Master of Arts Degree from Auckland University.

In 1968 he took a senior post in the Monash University Library, Melbourne, Australia, from which he retired in 1986.

In 1956 he became the Correspondence Chess Champion of New Zealand. In his four appearances in the New Zealand Championship from 1951 to 1957 he finished equal second twice and third twice. In 1952 he was the umpire for the match in Auckland between Cecil Purdy, the Australian champion and Ortvin Sarapu, the New Zealand champion for the Championship of Australasia, which ended in a 5-5 tie.

For a period in the nineties he was the Deputy President of the Australian Chess Federation.


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. H P Whitlock vs A E Turner  1-051195158th New Zealand ChampionshipE47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
2. A E Turner vs F A Haight  1-0471951New Zealand Championship 1951/52C07 French, Tarrasch
3. A E Turner vs C Rose  1-0261951New Zealand Championship 1951/52C05 French, Tarrasch
4. O Sarapu vs A E Turner 1-0331951New Zealand Championship 1951/52D69 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense, Classical, 13.de
5. A E Turner vs D Lynch  ½-½321951New Zealand Championship 1951/52D63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
6. A E Turner vs R Baeyertz  1-0181954New Zealand Championship 1954/55E41 Nimzo-Indian
7. A E Turner vs A Feneridis  1-0341954New Zealand Championship 1954/55E90 King's Indian
8. A E Turner vs O Sarapu 0-1301954New Zealand Championship 1954/55E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
9. A E Turner vs B Menzies  1-0351956New Zealand Championship 1956/57E52 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with ...b6
10. A E Turner vs T van Dijk  0-1301956New Zealand Championship 1956/57C09 French, Tarrasch, Open Variation, Main line
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