Kammala wannan jumla: Nick Patterson yaro ne mai hazaka a wasan chess. Ya lashe gasar zakarun Irish a shekarar 1969. A cikin wani dogon wasan a cikin
Chess Olympiad na Siegen a shekarar 1970, inda ya buga wasan saman jirgi don Ireland, ya sadu da babban mashahurin Danish Bent Larsen, wanda ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasa 10 a duniya a lokacin, kuma ya sami nasarar yin wasa bayan tafiye-tafiye 93.