Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Nick Patterson akanga ari mwana chess prodigy. Akakunda Irish Chess Championship muna 1969. Mumutambo murefu muChess Olympiad yeZiegen
muna 1970, apo akatamba bhodhi repamusoro reIreland, akasangana neDanish grandmaster Bent Larsen, uyo aive mumwe wevatambi gumi vepamusoro munyika panguva iyoyo, uye akakwanisa kuita dhizaini mushure mematanho makumi mapfumbamwe nematatu.