Australia
Australia has an active chess
population. She is mother to the Melbourne Chess Club, the
third oldest chess club in the world. Cecil Purdy, the World
Correspondence Chess Champion from 1953-1958, had his home here.
Chess is becoming increasingly popular in the schools here. The South
Australia Education Department has created ICoN (Internet Chess on Nexus)
that lets kids play chess against each other across Australia during lunch.
