List of Australian chess players
The list of Australian chess players contains chess players who are or were eligible to play for the Australian Chess Federation and who meet at least one of the following conditions:
- One of the following FIDE titles: Grand Master , International Master , Women's Grand Master , International Women's Master;
- Winner of one of the following ICCF titles: Grand Master, Honored International Master, International Master, Grand Master of Women, International Master of Women;
- Winning an Australian Individual Championship (open class or women's competition);
- a historical Elo rating of at least 2500.
General
In local chess, nine grandmasters, 27 international masters, three women's grandmasters and 12 international women's champions are eligible to play for the Australian Chess Federation. One grandmaster, six international champions and two international women champions have already died, one international master is no longer eligible to play for the Australian Federation.
In correspondence chess, four Australian players have earned the title of Grand Master, five that of Merited International Master, 18 that of International Master and one player that of Women's Grand Master. Cecil Purdy won the first correspondence chess world championship in 1953.
The Australian individual championship was played 59 times, the women's championship 22 times. In two Australian championships the title was awarded to two players each, in an Australian championship of women four players won the title. The record champion is Darryl Johansen with six titles, Marion Mott-McGrath won the women's competition with four titles the most.
Another two Australian players had a historic rating of at least 2500 before July 1971 .
list
The following table contains this information:
- Name : gives the name of the player.
- Life data : states the year of birth and, if applicable, the year of death of the player.
- FIDE : Calls the player's highest FIDE title (GM = Grand Master, IM = International Master, WGM = Women's Grand Master, FM = FIDE Master , WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = FIDE Women's Master).
- Year : Name the year the title was awarded
- ICCF : Calls the player's highest ICCF title (GM = Grand Master, SIM = Honored International Master, IM = International Master, LGM = Women's Grand Master).
- Year : Name the year the title was awarded
- Title : The number of Australian individual championships won.
- Title (Women) : The number of Australian individual championships won by women.
- Historical Elo : For players who have neither FIDE nor ICCF titles and have never won an Australian Championship, the highest historical Elo number achieved before July 1971 , provided it is at least 2500.
- Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, this indicates these associations with the periods of eligibility to play (if known).
The list is current as of March 31, 2020.
Surname | Life dates |
FIDE |
year |
ICCF |
year |
title |
Title (women) |
historical Elo |
other associations |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Katrin Aladjova-Kusznirczuk | 1971 | WFM | 1986 | 0 | 1 | Bulgaria (until 1992) | |||
Romanas Arlauskas | 1917-2009 | GM | 1965 | 0 | 0 | Lithuania (until 1939) | |||
Clive Barnett | IN THE | 1994 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Ralph Basden | 1955-2017 | IN THE | 2000 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Irina Berezina | 1965 | IN THE | 1999 | 0 | 1 | Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992–1993) | |||
Bela Berger | 1931-2005 | IN THE | 1963 | 0 | 0 | Hungary (until 1956) | |||
Gary Benson | 1957 | SIM | 2005 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Igor Bjelobrk | 1982 | IN THE | 2013 | 0 | 0 | New Zealand (until 2007) | |||
Andrew Brown | 1992 | IN THE | 2011 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Walter Browne | 1949-2015 | GM | 1970 | 1 | 0 | United States (from 1973) | |||
Arianne Caoili | 1986-2020 | WIM | 2002 | 0 | 0 | Philippines (until 2004) | |||
Mark Chapman | 1963 | IN THE | 2001 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Henry Charlick | 1845-1916 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Bobby Cheng | 1997 | GM | 2019 | 1 | 0 | New Zealand (until 2008) | |||
Carin Craig | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Spencer Crakanthorp | 1885-1936 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
William Crane | 1851-1920 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
Ari Dale | 1998 | IN THE | 2013 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Aleksandar Davidovic | 1961 | IN THE | 1988 | 0 | 0 | Yugoslavia (until 1989) | |||
Biljana Dekic | 1950 | WIM | 1990 | 0 | 0 | Yugoslavia (until 1989) | |||
Shane Dibley | 1957 | IN THE | 2009 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gordon Dunlop | 1954 | IN THE | 2015 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Lucius Endzelins | 1909-1981 | GM | 1959 | 1 | 0 | Latvia (until 1939) | |||
Frederick Esling | 1860-1950 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Vladimir Feldman | 1959 | IN THE | 2000 | 0 | 0 | Soviet Union (until 1991), Russia (1992) | |||
Chris Fenwick | GM | 2007 | 0 | 0 | |||||
John Paul Fenwick | IN THE | 2013 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Simon Fitzpatrick | 1953-2004 | IN THE | 1998 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Alfred Flatow | 1937 | FM | 1989 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Lee Fraser | 1971 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
Maxwell Fuller | 1945-2013 | FM | 1980 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Javier Gil Capape | 1967 | IN THE | 1992 | 0 | 0 | Spain (1989-2007) | |||
Mikhail Gluzman | 1967 | IN THE | 1991 | 0 | 0 | Soviet Union (until 1991), Ukraine (1992) | |||
Igor Goldenberg | 1969 | IN THE | 2009 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Emma Guo | 1995 | WIM | 2011 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Douglas Gibson Hamilton | 1941 | FM | 1989 | IN THE | 2001 | 3 | 0 | ||
Kevin Harrison | 1946 | IN THE | 1994 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Trevor Hay | 1945 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Veronica Henri | LGM | 2013 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Shane Malcolm Hill | 1971 | IN THE | 1988 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gregory Hjorth | 1963-2011 | IN THE | 1984 | 0 | 0 | United States (from 2000) | |||
Mary Mills Houlding | 1850-1940 | 0 | 0 | England (until 1885, from 1899) | |||||
Junta Ikeda | 1991 | IN THE | 2014 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Max Illingworth | 1992 | GM | 2016 | 2 | 0 | ||||
Julius Jacobsen | 1862-1916 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Robert Jamieson | 1952 | IN THE | 1975 | 2 | 0 | ||||
Katherine Jarek | 1978 | WIM | 2013 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Darryl Johansen | 1959 | GM | 1995 | 6th | 0 | ||||
Alexandra Jule | 1989 | WIM | 2007 | 0 | 1 | ||||
John Vincent waiter | 1931-1987 | IN THE | 1968 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Narelle waiter | 1934-1987 | WIM | 1977 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Stephen Kerr | 1962 | SIM | 2005 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gary Koshnitsky | 1907-1999 | IN THE | 1972 | 2 | 0 | ||||
Temur Kuibokarov | 2000 | GM | 2019 | 1 | 0 | Uzbekistan (until 2018) | |||
Grant Lambert | 1956 | IN THE | 2004 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Gary Lane | 1964 | IN THE | 1988 | 1 | 0 | England (until 2001) | |||
Nancy Lane | 1971 | WIM | 2002 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Stefan Lazare | 1 | 0 | |||||||
Moulthun Ly | 1991 | GM | 2016 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Paul Ma | IN THE | 1993 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Brodie McClymont | 1992 | IN THE | 2015 | 0 | 0 | ||||
George Michelakis | 1972 | IN THE | 1995 | 0 | 0 | South Africa (since 1993) | |||
James Morris | 1994 | IN THE | 2010 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Marion Mott-McGrath | 1940 | 0 | 4th | ||||||
Laura Moylan | 1983 | WIM | 1999 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Daniela Nuțu-Gajić | 1957 | WGM | 1986 | 0 | 1 | Romania (until 1996) | |||
Bruce Oates | SIM | 2006 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Karlis Ozols | 1912-2001 | IN THE | 1972 | 1 | 0 | Latvia (until 1939) | |||
Viggo Pedersen | IN THE | 1991 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky | 1974 | WIM | 2001 | 0 | 1 | Vietnam (until 1996) | |||
Lynda Pope | 1953 | WIM | 1979 | 0 | 1 | ||||
Elizabeth Ports | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Cecil Purdy | 1906-1979 | IN THE | 1951 | GM | 1959 | 4th | 0 | ||
John Purdy | 1935-2011 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
Boglarka Remenyi | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Heather Richards | 1983 | WIM | 2002 | 0 | 1 | England (until 2014) | |||
Ian Rogers | 1960 | GM | 1985 | 4th | 0 | ||||
Les Rowley | IN THE | 2007 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Serge Rubanraut | 1948-2008 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
Mirko Rujevic | 1946 | IN THE | 2003 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Tim Runting | SIM | 2003 | 0 | 0 | |||||
Yulia Ryzhanova | 1974 | WGM | 2000 | 0 | 1 | Russia (until 2017) | |||
Maxwell Charles Salm | 1919 | SIM | 1999 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Leonid Sandler | 1962 | IN THE | 2000 | 0 | 0 | Soviet Union (until 1991), Latvia (1992) | |||
Slavica Sarai | 1967 | WFM | 1989 | 0 | 1 | Yugoslavia (until 2003) | |||
Rishi Sardana | 1997 | IN THE | 2014 | 0 | 0 | India (until 2013) | |||
Terrey Shaw | 1946-1997 | IN THE | 1982 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Anne Slavotinek | 1963 | WIM | 1985 | 0 | 2 | ||||
David Smerdon | 1984 | GM | 2009 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Anton Smirnov | 2001 | IN THE | 2014 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Stephen Solomon | 1963 | IN THE | 1990 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Raymond Song | 1994 | IN THE | 2019 | 0 | 0 | Taiwan (since 2016) | |||
Anastasia Sorokina | 1980 | WIM | 2001 | 0 | 0 | Belarus (until 2003, from 2017) | |||
Lajos Steiner | 1903-1975 | IN THE | 1950 | 4th | 0 | Hungary (until 1939) | |||
Franciszek Sulik | 1908-1997 | 0 | 0 | 2516 | Poland (until 1939) | ||||
Narelle Szuveges | 1978 | WIM | 2005 | 0 | 2 | ||||
Justin Tan | 1997 | GM | 2018 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Trevor Tao | 1977 | IN THE | 2012 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Phillip John Viner | 1927-2018 | IN THE | 1983 | 0 | 0 | ||||
William Viner | 1881-1933 | 4th | 0 | ||||||
Albert Wallace | 1872-1928 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
John-Paul Wallace | 1976 | IN THE | 1996 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson | 1878-1962 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
Guy West | 1958 | IN THE | 1990 | IN THE | 1991 | 1 | 0 | ||
John Wisker | 1846-1884 | 0 | 0 | 2625 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (until 1876) | ||||
Alexander Wohl | 1963 | IN THE | 1994 | 1 | 0 | ||||
Josie Wright | 1967 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
George Wendi Xie | 1985 | IN THE | 2007 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Srboljub Zaric | 1940 | IN THE | 1997 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Karl Zelesco | 1999 | IN THE | 2019 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Zhang Jilin | 1986 | WGM | 2007 | 0 | 0 | China (until 2017) | |||
Zhao Zong-Yuan | 1986 | GM | 2008 | 1 | 0 |
See also
Web links
- Australian top 100 men and women (Elo list, active and inactive, English)
- Australian top 100 women (Elo list, active and inactive, English)
- Title holder in correspondence chess (English)
- List of Australian Masters at the Australian Chess Federation (English)
- List of Australian Masters at the Australian Chess Federation (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irina Berezina also has the WIM title.
- ↑ Walter Browne also won the USA championship six times .
- ↑ Spencer Crakanthorp also won the New Zealand championship twice.
- ↑ Mary Mills Houlding won the British Women's Championship three times.
- ↑ Junta Ikeda won the Japanese individual championship once.
- ↑ Daniela Nutu-Gajic also won the Romanian women's championship three times.
- ↑ Cecil Purdy also won the New Zealand championship once.
- ↑ Lajos Steiner also won the Hungarian championship twice.
- ↑ William Viner also won the New Zealand championship once.