Maxwell Fuller

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Maxwell Fuller 1985.jpg
Maxwell Fuller at the Doeberl Cup 1985
Surname Maxwell Leonard Fuller
Association AustraliaAustralia Australia
Born January 28, 1945
Sydney , Australia
Died August 27, 2013
Sydney
title FIDE Masters (1980)
Best Elo rating 2400 (January 1975)

Maxwell (Max) Leonard Fuller (born January 28, 1945 in Sydney , † August 27, 2013 there ) was an Australian chess player .

Life

Max Fuller attended Canterbury Boys' High School (CBHS) in Sydney. In the 1970s he lived in London for a few years . He was the first professional chess in Australia. He was active in chess until April 2006. Fuller held the title of FIDE Master .

successes

Individual tournaments

In 1963 he won the Australian U18 championship. In 1972 he shared the win of the Australian individual championship with Trevor Hay in Melbourne , the play-off decision was 5: 5. At the 1972 zone tournament in Hong Kong , which Eugenio Torre won, he was tied for second place, but was placed fourth after drawing lots, so that Singaporean Tan Lian Ann received the title of International Master (IM) and was able to drive to the Petrópolis 1973 interzonal tournament , which was won by Henrique da Costa Mecking . Fuller won the Australian Open in 1973 and 1975, the Doeberl Cup in 1974, 1975 and 1983. He won the championship of the state of New South Wales in 1965, 1986 and (shared with Dmitry Gedevanishvili) in 1988, won the individual championship in rapid chess in New South Wales he 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1986, the Sydney City Championship in 1964, 1965, 1966, 1971 and split in 1981.

1970 in Coventry and 1975 in Morecambe , he was tied for second in the British Individual Championship , in which Commonwealth players are allowed to participate.

National team

He took part in nine chess Olympiads for the Australian team between 1964 and 1990 with a positive overall result of 59 points from 106 games (+40 = 38 −28). His victories at Chess Olympiads included games against the titleholders IM Lazaros Vizantiadis ( 1968 ), IM Peter Biyiasas and IM Tüdewiin Üitümen ( 1974 ), IM Juan Manuel Bellón López ( 1976 ) and IM Leif Øgaard ( 1978 ). In 1986 and 1990 he was the team captain of the Australian national team at the Olympics. At the Asian team championship in 1974 he played on the top board for Australia and received an individual gold medal in second place for the team for his result of six points from seven games.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RIP Maxwell Fuller . Obituary on the website of the English Chess Federation of August 30, 2013 (English)
  2. ↑ The zone tournaments 1972 on mark-weeks.com (English)
  3. ↑ List of the winners of the Doeberl Cup from 1963 (English)
  4. ↑ List of Masters of New South Wales since 1901 (English)
  5. ↑ List of rapid chess champion of New South Wales since 1946 (English)
  6. ↑ List of City Masters of Sydney since 1937 (English)
  7. ↑ chess column by Raymond Keene in the Sunday Times of 20 September 2013 (English)
  8. ↑ Maxwell Fuller's Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ The Australian team at the 1974 Asian Cup on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Maxwell
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuller, Max; Fuller, Maxwell L .; Fuller, Maxwell Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2013
Place of death Sydney