The Australian Masters is a
chess
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tournament that has been held in
Melbourne
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, Australia, annually since 1987. The tournament is an invitational event, normally run as a 10-player round-robin tournament. 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
*1989 Stephen Solomon Guy West
*1990 Stephen Solomon
*1991 Stephen Solomon
*1992 Tony Miles
*1993 Mikhail Gluzman, Michael Gluzman
*1994 Leonid Sandler
*1995 Tu Hoang Thong
*1996 Nguyen Anh Dung (chess player), Nguyen Anh Dung
*1997 Stephen Solomon
*1998 Chris Depasquale
*1999 Gary Lane (chess player), Gary Lane
*2000 Adam Hunt (chess player), Adam Hunt
*2001 Guy West Darryl Johansen
*2002 Guy West Mikhail Gluzman, Michael Gluzman
*2003 Stephen Solomon
*2004 David Smerdon Darryl Johansen
*2005 Jesse Noel Sales
*2006 George Xie
*2008 Vladimir Smirnov (chess player), Vladimir Smirnov
*2009 Stephen Solomon
*2010 Stephen Solomon
*2011 James Morris
*2012 Anton Smirnov (chess player), Anton Smirnov, Bobby Cheng, James Morris (chess player), James Morris
2012 Australasian Masters
FIDE Tournament Report
*2013 Normunds Miezis and Vasily Papin
*2014 Vasily Papin, Rustam Khuznutdinov and Murtas Kazhgaleyev
*2015 Kanan Izzat
*2016 Anton Smirnov (chess player), Anton Smirnov
*2017 Vasily Papin, Adrien Demuth
*2018 Anton Smirnov (chess player), 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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Chess in Australia
Sports competitions in Melbourne
1987 in chess
Recurring sporting events established in 1987