John Purdy (chess player)

John Purdy (25 September 1935 – 27 August 2011) was an Australian chess player and Family Court judge.

[2] His mother was Anne (née Crakanthorp, 1915–2013) and who held the lease of Greenwich Baths on Sydney Harbour.

John attended North Sydney Boys High where his friends encourage him to take up chess competitively at the age of 13.

[5][6] However, that year he failed to qualify for the junior world chess championship finals in Antwerp[7] (the title was won by Boris Spassky).

[1] In 2003, Purdy suffered an aortic dissection in Lismore and spent weeks at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.

[8] His funeral was held on 9 September 2011 at the Camellia Chapel, Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, corner of Delhi and Plassey Roads North Ryde.