Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in

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) is an Australian

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grandmaster. He has won the

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a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen

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s (1980–96, 2000–04, 2008–10). He was awarded by FIDE the titles of International Master in 1982 and Grandmaster in 1995, the second from Australia, after Ian Rogers. He won the Phillips & Drew Knights Masters tournament in London in 1984. In 1987, he won the inaugural

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tournament, and has finished first in this event on two other occasions. He won the 2002 Oceania Zonal Championship and represented the Oceania zone at the

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. In 2009, he won the Sydney International Open held in

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, with a score of 7/9, winning the title on tiebreak ahead of

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, Abhijit Kunte, and Gawain Jones. This made him the first Australian to win the event. He has also won the Victorian State Chess Championships twelve times, the last occasion being in 2009. In January 2012, Johansen tied for 1st–3rd with Li Chao and Zhao Jun in the third Queenstown Chess Classic, winning the tournament on tiebreak. Johansen is currently co-director of a chess coaching company, "Chess Ideas", based in Melbourne.

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chess coaching for schools (Melbourne) {{DEFAULTSORT:Johansen, Darryl 1959 births Living people Chess grandmasters Chess Olympiad competitors Australian chess players People from Melbourne Australian people of Danish descent