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The Correspondence Chess Career of a World Champion
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The first Correspondence Chess Champion, the Australian Cecil John Seddon Purdy, played in total 46 correspondence games: 34 wins, 10 draws and only 2 losses. This book contains 44 games, annotated in depth, and 8 correspondence games without annotations. One correspondence game score is missing. All games show the development of the style of the first world champion in correspondence chess.
Purdy was also a strong OTB-player and published several books. He was the editor of the famous CHESS WORLD magazine. Purdy's writings was clear, instructive and entertainijng.
15 x 22 cm. 165 pages. Descriptive notation. Horwitz Grahame, Melbourne, 1983. Lusis 1344. A few tears. Otherwise VG.
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