James
Rodney
(Rodney)
Phillips
Born about in New Zealand
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Herbert Phillips
[uncertain]
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 27
in Wellington Harbour, Wellington, New Zealand
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Biography
Rodney Phillips is Notable.
Rodney Phillips lived in Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand.
Rodney was born in 1942 in New Zealand. He may have been the son of Thomas Herbert Phillips and Mary Joyce Dixon. [1]
He was a chess prodigy and won the 1957 New Zealand Championship at the age of 14, the youngest player ever to do so.
He was coached by Ortvin Sarapu and competed in the 1959 and 1961 World Junior Championship, coming 13th in the latter.
He was found drowned in Wellington Harbour on 19 September 1969, a suspected suicide
Sources
- ↑ Shown by ancestry-com public member trees.
- Wikipedia:Rodney_Phillips
- "N.Z. Boy Wins Seventh Round Game", Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28957, 27 July 1959, Page 7
- New Zealand chess tournament 1957 joint winners Arcadios Feneridis and James Rodney Phillips holding the trophy, EP/1957/0032-F National Library of New Zealand - originally from Evening Post.
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