Australian Chess Player
1. George Xie (1985)
Australian Chess Player
George Xie is an Australian chess player and 2009 and 2011 Joint Australian Open Chess Champion. He became an International Master in 2006 is ranked 3rd in Australia.
2. Charles G. M. Watson (1878)
Australian Chess Player
Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson was an Australian national chess champion. Born in Buninyong he started playing chess at the age of 10 with his father at the Ballarat Chess Club...
3. Cecil Purdy (1906)
Australian Chess Player
Cecil John Seddon Purdy was an Australian chess International Master writer and inaugural World Correspondence Chess champion. Purdy earned the Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess title in 1953. He was also...
4. Maxwell Fuller (1945)
Australian Chess Player
Maxwell Leonard Fuller was an Australian chess FIDE Master. He represented Australia in nine Chess Olympiads between 1964 and 1990.
5. Aleksandar Wohl (1963)
Australian Chess Player
Aleksandar Wohl is an Australian chess player attaining the rank of International Master.
6. Biljana Dekic (1950)
Australian Chess Player
Biljana Dekić is a chess Woman International Master who has represented Australia in ten Chess Olympiads.
7. Gary Koshnitsky (1907)
Australian Chess Player
Gregory Koshnitsky was an Australian chess master. Born in Kishinev Bessarabia he emigrated in his youth to Australia. He was Australian Champion in 1933 and 1939 and won three Queensland...
8. Serge Rubanraut (1948)
Australian Chess Player
Serge Rubanraut was an Australian chess master. He won Australian Chess Championship at Sydney 1976 and represented Australia in the 22nd Chess Olympiad at Haifa 1976. He died at the...
9. Spencer Crakanthorp (1885)
Australian Chess Player
Spencer Crakanthorp was a chess player and Australian Chess Champion in 1923−24 1925−26 1926 and 1927. He was the father-in-law of chess master Cecil Purdy and grandfather to another chess...
10. Irina Berezina (1965)
Australian Chess Player
Irina Berezina is a chess International Master and experienced chess tutor. Berezina has a degree in Chess Coaching from Kiev Institute of Physical Culture and Sport.
11. Henry Charlick (1845)
Australian Chess Player
Henry Charlick was a leading Australian chess master in the 1880s. He won the second Australian Chess Championship at Adelaide 1887 with 7. 5 points out of 9 games ahead...
12. John-Paul Wallace (1976)
Australian Chess Player
John-Paul Wallace is a professional chess player awarded the title of International Master in 1996 by FIDE. He has represented Australia in two Chess Olympiads in Moscow Russia in 1994...
13. Guy West (1958)
Australian Chess Player
Guy West is a chess International Master and a former Australian Chess Champion. West was born in Babinda Queensland and moved to Melbourne at age 12.
14. Igor Bjelobrk (1982)
Australian Chess Player
Igor Bjelobrk is an Australian chess International Master. He gained the International Master title after winning the 2013 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship held on Sonaisali Island Fiji. Bjelobrk moved to...
15. Vladimir Feldman (1959)
Australian Chess Player
Vladimir Feldman is an Australian chess International Master and experienced chess coach. Feldman has a master degree in Chess Coaching from the State Institute of Physical Culture Moscow.
16. Darryl Johansen (1959)
Australian Chess Player
Darryl Keith Johansen is an Australian chess Grandmaster. He became an International Master in 1983 and Australia's second Grandmaster after Ian Rogers in 1995. Johansen's world ranking peaked at 91st...
17. Robert Jamieson (chess player) (1952)
Australian Chess Player
Robert Murray Jamieson is an Australian chess International Master.
18. Gary Lane (1964)
Australian Chess Player
Gary William Lane is a professional chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. He is a highly respected...
