We had 25 people start in the Purdy Cup on Tuesday, named after CJS Purdy, shown here, although his son was also no slouch at chess, and also became a Family Court judge. Some CJS Purdy trivia: while in Tasmania one of his classmates was future film star Errol Flynn. And Purdy died from an aneurysm while playing chess over the board, with his final words reported by Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers were “I have to seal a move”, and that Purdy “wasn’t even winning in the final position — Cecil wouldn’t have mistaken a drawn position for a winning position.”

Results are below.

Round 1 Results

 1 McIntyre, Charlie 1444 [0]      0:1    Williams, Bruce  2060 [0]
 2 Hogg, Dean        1999 [0]      1:0    Mullen, Chris    1390 [0]
 3 Harris, Alexander 1387 [0]      0:1    Hibberd, Nathan  1977 [0]
 4 Davis, Tony       1892 [0]      1:0    Edwards, Regina  1363 [0]
 5 Wootten, Rory     1255 [0]      0:1    Enano, Ronald    1741 [0]
 6 Humphreys, Scott  1724 [0]      1:0    Dogaris, George  1004 [0]
 7 Whitford, Matthew 708  [0]      0:1    Salanowski, Mark 1668 [0]
 8 Gusain, Daniel    1562 [0]      1:0    Liu, Jim         528  [0]
 9 Doust, Aidan      503  [0]      0:1    Hogan, Steven    1532 [0]
10 Thomas, Geoff          [0]      1:0    O'Leary, Mike    271  [0]
11 Nowak, Ruben      1476 [0]      1:0    Liu, William     257  [0]
12 Saric, Sergey     875  [0]      1:0    Richards, Derek  1483 [0]
13 Bejjanki, Pranav  409  [0]     .5:0    BYE       <\pre>