Career
In 1954, he played for Hungary "B" at fourth board in 1st Triennial Cup in Budapest. He played in the Australian Championship in Sydney in 1958/59, finishing second with 11.5 points, behind Lajos Steiner"s 12.5. John Purdy was one of Australia"s two representatives at the 1963 Pacific Zone 10 Championship in Jakarta.
There was a quadrangular selection tournament in Melbourne for the second spot.
Bela Berger and Karlis Ozols tied for first. The selectors voted in favour of Berger 3-0.
He went on to play in the 1964 Interzonal tournament in Amsterdam, with 18 grandmasters and 6 international masters, finishing 23rd out of 24. The joint winners were Vasily Smyslov, Bent Larsen, Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky.
