List of Australian chess players

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Walter Browne became the first Australian to be named grandmaster in 1970.

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:

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

Commons : Australian Chess Players  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irina Berezina also has the WIM title.
  2. ↑ Walter Browne also won the USA championship six times .
  3. ↑ Spencer Crakanthorp also won the New Zealand championship twice.
  4. ↑ Mary Mills Houlding won the British Women's Championship three times.
  5. ↑ Junta Ikeda won the Japanese individual championship once.
  6. ↑ Daniela Nutu-Gajic also won the Romanian women's championship three times.
  7. ↑ Cecil Purdy also won the New Zealand championship once.
  8. ↑ Lajos Steiner also won the Hungarian championship twice.
  9. ↑ William Viner also won the New Zealand championship once.