Chess challenge for Chch player
, The New Zealand chess champion Vernon Small, of Christchurch will leave this week for the Asian-Pacific zonal chess tournament in Singapore. The top two qualifers from this tournament will advance to the next stage towards finding the eight candidates who will play off. for the right to challenge for the world title. Small, three times a New Zealand representative at the world teams’ championship, won this year’s national title in Auckland outright after having shared it in 1980 and 1981.
He finished with seven and a half points out of a possible 11 and was a half point ahead of the multiple title-
holder, Ortvin Sarapu (North Shore) and Tony Dowden (Otago). Small was to have represented New Zealand along with the outstanding young player Murray Chandler, who has been playing overseas, but it is understood that Chandler, New Zealand’s top board player at the last world tournament, has withdrawn.
Accompanying Small to Singapore will be a-member of the Canterbury Chess Club's committee, Michael Freeman, himself a prominent player. He will assist Small in the analysis of games. _
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Press, 10 February 1982, Page 15
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