The Australian Masters is a
chess
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tournament that has been held in
Melbourne
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,
Australia
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, annually since 1987. The tournament is an invitational event, normally run as a 10-player
round-robin tournament
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. Since 2013 the tournament has become Australia's only round-robin Grandmaster tournament. A major sponsor of the tournament since its inception has been Eddy Levi (or his company Hallsten).
Winners
*1987
Darryl Johansen
Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen Che ...
*1989
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
Guy West
Guy West (born 7 September 1958) is an Australian chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He is a former Australian Chess Champion.
West was born in Babinda, Queensland, and moved to Melbourne at the age of 12. He ...
*1990
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*1991
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*1992
Tony Miles
Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the Grandmaster title.
Early and personal life
Miles was an only child, born 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birming ...
*1993
Michael Gluzman
Michael may refer to:
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Given name "Michael"
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*1994
Leonid Sandler
*1995
Tu Hoang Thong
*1996
Nguyen Anh Dung
*1997
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*1998
Chris Depasquale
*1999
Gary Lane
*2000
Adam Hunt
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Career
Hunt began competing in PDC events in 2011 and won his first tournament in his second month, beating Josh Jon ...
*2001
Guy West
Guy West (born 7 September 1958) is an Australian chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He is a former Australian Chess Champion.
West was born in Babinda, Queensland, and moved to Melbourne at the age of 12. He ...
Darryl Johansen
Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen Che ...
*2002
Guy West
Guy West (born 7 September 1958) is an Australian chess player who holds the FIDE title of International Master (IM). He is a former Australian Chess Champion.
West was born in Babinda, Queensland, and moved to Melbourne at the age of 12. He ...
Michael Gluzman
Michael may refer to:
People
* Michael (given name), a given name
* Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael
Given name "Michael"
* Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...
*2003
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*2004
David Smerdon
David Craig Smerdon (born 17 September 1984) is an Australian chess player and economist who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). He is the seventh highest ranked chess player of Australia. Smerdon has played for the Australian team in th ...
Darryl Johansen
Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen Che ...
*2005
Jesse Noel Sales
*2006
George Xie
George Xie is an International Master (IM) of chess, chess tutor and a former Australian Open chess champion.
Career
George Xie tied for first in the 2009 and 2011 Australian Open Chess Championship tournaments, winning the Australian Open C ...
*2008
Vladimir Smirnov
*2009
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*2010
Stephen Solomon
Stephen John Solomon (born 24 July 1963) is an Australian chess International Master (IM). He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 1986, and an International Master (IM) in 1990. He won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1980 and the Austra ...
*2011 James Morris
*2012
Anton Smirnov,
Bobby Cheng
Bobby Cheng (born 20 March 1997) is a Chinese-Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. Cheng was world champion in the under 12 category in 2009, the only Australian in history to win a world title. Chen ...
,
James Morris2012 Australasian Masters
FIDE Tournament Report
*2013 Normunds Miezis
Normunds Miezis (born 11 May 1971) is a Latvian chess Grandmaster (1997).
Chess career
He won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1991 and 2006. He played for Latvia in the Chess Olympiads of 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 201 ...
and Vasily Papin
*2014 Vasily Papin, Rustam Khuznutdinov and Murtas Kazhgaleyev
Murtas Kazhgaleyev ( kk, Мұртас Мұратұлы Қажығалиев, Mūrtas Mūratūly Qajyğaliev; born 17 November 1973) is a Kazakhstani chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1998.
In 2004, he tied for firs ...
*2015 Kanan Izzat
*2016 Anton Smirnov
*2017 Vasily Papin, Adrien Demuth
Adrien Demuth (born 14 April 1991) is a French chess grandmaster (chess), grandmaster.
Chess career
Born in 1991, Demuth earned his international master title in 2011 and his grandmaster (chess), grandmaster title in 2015. He is the No. 14 ranke ...
*2018 Anton Smirnov
IM and GM norms
Since 2013, Grandmaster norms for performances above the 2600 level, have been available at the Australian Masters Championship thanks to the participation of foreign Grandmasters. International Master norms are also available at the Australian Masters tournament.
References
Ozbase - Australian Chess Games Archive
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1987 in chess
Recurring sporting events established in 1987