this week in Banyule, in 1975
We took these pictures at the Heidelberg museum last Sunday. It's like Dorian says, local news just doesn't change (although in yesterday's paper there was a ripper of a story about a car club meet in the Macleod station car park last Saturday.) 
Fourteen-year-old Ian Rogers of Green St Ivanhoe, where are you now?
posted by Laura at 2:26 PM
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It looks like he's still playing, and a Grand Master at that.
http://www.auschess.org.au/bulletins/acfb272.htm
Yeah! I should've googled before publishing. Although I was asking the question in a Big Chill kind of way, it's still good to get an actual answer.
I hope he met some girls eventually.
Hi I'm a journalist with the Banyule City Council. Was writing about your blog in the upcoming Winter in Banyule Festival program and saw the clipping of young Ian. Chased him up, and have confirmed that he went on to be the first ever Australian Grand Master of chess (there are only two... both from Melbourne.) He studied at University High, then studied Meterology, but has made a handy living as Australia's top chess player for the past 25 years. He's married to a lawyer and lives half the year in Sydney and half in Amsterdam where he is now. He's 45.
Amazing stuff. I went to uni high too. So did Olivia Newton-John and Joan Kirner. I am just impressed that Banyule has journalists on the payroll.
Ian has actually recently retured from playing. Apparently it was health-related - he's fine but the stress of multiple chess tournaments isn't so good for his body it seems.
As a side note, there's now a third Australian Grandmaster Zong-Yuan Zhao from Coffs Harbour.
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