Serge Rubanraut (16 March 1948, in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flowin ...

– 12 October 2008, in Sydney) was an Australian

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

master. He won

Australian Chess Championship The Australian Chess Championship is a tournament organised by the Australian Chess Federation and held every two years. The tournament is largely restricted to Australian chess players, although it is common to allow a small number of strong overse ...

at Sydney 1976, and represented Australia in the

22nd Chess Olympiad The 22nd Chess Olympiad ( he, אולימפיאדת השחמט ה-22, ''Olimpiada ha-shachmat ha-22''), organized by FIDE, took place between October 26 and November 10, 1976, in Haifa, Israel. For the first time, the event comprised both an openA ...

at Haifa 1976. He died at the age of 60 from a heart attack, and was buried in the Jewish section of

Rookwood Cemetery Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere and is the world's largest remaining operating ...

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Serge Rubanraut at 365Chess.com26 chessgames at New in chess
1948 births 2008 deaths Chinese Jews Australian chess players Jewish Australian sportspeople Jewish chess players Jewish Chinese history Chess players from Shanghai Chinese emigrants to Australia People of Chinese-Jewish descent Sportspeople from Sydney 20th-century chess players {{Australia-chess-bio-stub