Grandmaster status bid
PA Wellington New Zealand's highest rated chess player — the international master, Murray Chandler — will return to Europe next week intent on achieving Grandmaster status. The 21-year-old former Wainuiomata man has returned to New Zealand after finishing third equal in the Ibu Tien Soeharto Cup tournament in Indonesia, having been away for four years. The $7OOO prizemoney
cheque he received prompted him to visit his now Master-ton-based family rather than return immediately to his South London home. Chandler said yesterday that his tournament wins in London, Hungary and New York had not been enough to earn him the coveted Grandmaster title. There was a reasonable living to be made on the international chess circuit and the possession of a Grandmaster title certainly made this more lucrative, he said.
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Press, 20 March 1982, Page 64
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