The Australian Chess Championship is a tournament organised by the

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and held every two years. The tournament is largely restricted to Australian

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players, although it is common to allow a small number of strong overseas players to compete. The highest-scoring eligible player (frequently the tournament winner) holds the title of Australian Chess Champion until the next tournament is held. The tournament format is normally a restricted

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, and in case of a tie for first place, a playoff match or tournament is conducted. Since 1971, the Australian Open has been held in the intervening years. This event is open to all players, regardless of nationality, and the winner holds the title of Australian Open Champion. The Australian Junior Championship and Australian Girls Championship are held annually. The Australian Women's Championship was previously organised as a separate tournament but current regulations award the title of Australian Women's Champion to the highest placed Australian female player in the Australian Open (dependent on a minimum number of female entries).

Australian Champions

Prior to 2008, the tournament usually began in late December (after Christmas) and finished in January. Since 2008, the tournament has usually been held entirely in January. In the table, the year refers to the date the tournament finished. :

Australian Women's Champions

*1966 Marion Mott-McGrath *1969 Marion Mott-McGrath *1972

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*1974

*1976 Marion Mott-McGrath *1978

Lynda Pope Lynda Pope ( Maddern, born 19 April 1953) is an Australian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1972). She is a winner of the Australian Women's Chess Championship (1978). Biography Lynda started playing chess ...

*1980 Marion Mott-McGrath *1982 Anne Slavotinek *1984 Anne Slavotinek *1986 Josie Wright *1988 Carin Craig *1990 Josie Wright *1992 Katrin Aladjova *1994 Boglarka Remenyi, Narelle Szuveges, Liz Ports and Lee Fraser *1995 Dana Nuțu-Gajic *1996 Biljana Dekic & Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky *1998 Ngan Phan-Koshnitsky *1999 Irina Feldman *2002 Narelle Szuveges *2003 Slavica Sarai *2015

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*2017 Alexandra Jule *2019 Julia Ryjanova *2023 Leah Rice *2025

Australian Junior Champions

The Australian Junior Chess Championship is a tournament organised by the

and is held every year. It is restricted to junior players under 18 years of age. The Australian Girls Championship is held concurrently. *1949 W. Levick *1951 John Purdy *1952 J. Hortovanyi *1953 Malcolm Broun *1954 D. Robson *1955 J. Hortovanyi *1956 A. Irving *1957 J. Ferguson *1958 D. Rudd *1959

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*1960 Peter Lay *1961 Trevor Hay *1962 N. Alexander *1963 Maxwell Fuller *1964 William Kerr *1965 William Kerr *1966 Mike Woodhams *1967 Arthur Pope *1968 Noel Craske *1969 John Hendry *1970 Alan Sauran *1971 Arthur Koelle *1972 Greg Melrose *1973 Robert Bartnik *1974 William Jordan *1975 David Dick (finished third behind

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and Kai Jensen who were ineligible for title because they were New Zealand residents ) *1976 Ian Rogers *1977

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/ D. Fardell *1978 Murray Smith *1979 Stephen Kerr *1980 Stephen Solomon (tied with Donald MacFarlane who was ineligible for title because he was a South African resident) *1981 Rey Casse (tied with

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who was ineligible for title because he was a New Zealand resident) *1982 Paul Broekhuyse *1983 Konrad Hornung *1984 Peter Evans *1985 Timothy Reilly *1986 Shane Hill *1987

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*1988 Lee Jones *1989 Peter Cotton *1990 Nick Speck *1991 Lee Jones *1992 Trevor Tao *1993 John Paul Wallace *1994 Ry Curtis *1995 Charles Pizzato *1996 David Cordover *1997 Max Leskiewicz *1998 Geoff Saw *1999

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 ...

*2000 Justin Tan *2001 Zong-Yuan Zhao *2002 Kuan-Kuan Tian *2003 Tomek Rej *2004 Denis Bourmistrov *2005 Moulthun Ly *2006 Angela Song *2007 Michael Wei *2008 Junta Ikeda *2009 Cedric Antolis *2010 Bobby Cheng *2011 Bobby Cheng *2012 Alistair Cameron *2013 Gene Nakauchi *2014 Anton Smirnov *2015

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*2016 Ari Dale *2017 Ray Yang *2018 David Cannon *2019 Sterling Bayaca *2020 Cameron McGowan *2023 Ruicheng Wang *2024 Anh Quan Nguyen *2025 Rui Gen Teh

Australian Girls Champions

*1960 Irene Tannenthal *1964 Rosalind Jones *1965 Rosalind Jones *1966 Rosalind Jones *1967 Marilyn Urlick *1968 Nona Monachowec *1969 Nona Monachowec *1970 Linda Maddern *1971 Linda Maddern *1972 Lillian Goldsmith *1973 Irena Duluk *1974 Cathy Innes-Brown *1975 Cathy Innes-Brown / Cathy Depasquale / Karen Hancock *1976 Kate Marshall *1977 Anne Martin *1978 Anne Slavotinek *1979 Anne Slavotinek *1980

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*1981 Jill Clementi *1982 Josie Wright *1983 Trudi Potter *1984 Colleen Lau *1985 Gina Soto-Olivo *1986 Natalie Mills / J. Rees / Blanche Wilkie / Nga Phan *1987 Tam Nguyen *1988 Nancy Jones *1989 Nancy Jones *1990 Gabrielle Grbovac / J. King & Barbara Remenyi / Boglarka Remenyi *1991 Boglarka Remenyi *1992 Jennifer Harrington *1993 Veronica Klimenko / I. Liubomirskaia / Narelle Szuveges *1994 Sulyn Teh *1995 Jasmine Lauer-Smith *1996 Laura Moylan *1997 Elaine Chong *1998 Kylie Coventry *1999 Catherine Lip / Jasmine Lauer-Smith / Shiloh Norris *2000 Catherine Lip *2001 Michelle Lee *2002 Shannon Oliver *2003 Angela Song *2004 Heather Huddleston *2005

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*2006 Alexandra Jule *2007 Emma Guo *2008 Deborah Ng *2009 Sally Yu *2010 Leteisha Simmonds *2011 Savithri Narenthran *2012 Miranda Webb-Liddle *2013 Nicole Chin *2014 Shirley Gu *2015 Kristine Quek *2016 Zhi Lin Guo *2017 Yifan Eva Wang *2018 Cassandra Lim *2019 Jody Middleton *2020 Lillian Lu *2023 Chloe Fan *2024 Om O'Carroll *2025 Athena-Malar Retnaraja

Australian Open

Where players tied for first place and the winner of the Australian Open Champion title on countback is known, the title winner is indicated followed by the players they tied with in brackets. *1971

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(Hungary) *1973 Maxwell Fuller *1975 Maxwell Fuller *1977 Trevor Hay / Stewart Booth / Michael Woodhams *1979 Maxwell Fuller *1981 Robert Murray Jamieson *1983

*1985 Guy West *1987

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(Hungary) *1989

Aleksandar Wohl Aleksandar H. Wohl (born 21 July 1963) is an Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 1994. Chess career Wohl won the Australian championship in 1992 ahead of English Grandmaster Tony Miles. In 198 ...

/ Robin Hill *1991

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(Estonia) /

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(Latvia) /

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(England) *1993 Ian Rogers *1995 Dinh Duc Trong (Vietnam) *1997

*1999

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(Switzerland) *2001

*2003 John-Paul Wallace *2005 Elena Sedina (Italy) *2007 Zong-Yuan Zhao *2009

(countback vs

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) *2011

(countback vs Zong-Yuan Zhao and Moulthun Ly) *2013 Bobby Cheng *2015

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*2017 Max Illingworth (countback vs Temur Kuybokarov (Uzbekistan), Kanan Izzat (Azerbaijan) and

) *2019 Temur Kuybokarov (countback vs Kanan Izzat (Azerbaijan)) *2023 Temur Kuybokarov *2025 Mihajlo Radovanovic (countback vs Tri Kien Le (Vietnam))

Australian Grand Prix

From 1989 to 2019 a system was in place with points accumulated in different Australian weekend tournaments. The winners were:2007 Myer Tan Australian Chess Grand Prix – History
*1989 Ian Rogers *1990 Stephen Solomon *1991

*1992

*1993

*1994 Ian Rogers *1995

*1996

*1997 Stephen Solomon *1998 Ian Rogers *1999 Stephen Solomon *2000 Ian Rogers *2001 Stephen Solomon *2002 Ian Rogers *2003 Ian Rogers *2004 Ian Rogers *2005 Igor Bjelobrk *2006

*2007

Dejan Antić Dejan Antić (; born 9 December 1968) is a Serbian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster. Biography In March 1988 he won the Belgrade Open. In 1989, Antic became a FIDE Master (FM). In 1991 he became an International Master (IM) a ...

*2008 Stephen Solomon *2009

*2010 Zhao Zong-Yuan *2011 Stephen Solomon *2012

*2013 Brodie McClymont *2014 Moulthun Ly *2015 Anton Smirnov *2016 Brodie McClymont *2017 Stephen Solomon *2018 Stephen Solomon *2019 Stephen Solomon The Grand Prix has not been held since 2019.

References

* *. (Men's champions through 1986) *. (Men's champions through 1980) * http://www.ozbase.com.au/ – an incomplete list, including games in PGN format.

External links

*https://web.archive.org/web/20150624114332/http://2016.chesschampionship.org.au/ *http://auschesschamps.com/ (2014 Championships) *http://www.ajcc.org.au/ {{Australian National Championships Chess national championships Women's chess national championships

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