The Australian Masters is a

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tournament that has been held in

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, annually since 1987. The tournament is an invitational event, normally run as a 10-player

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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 Guy West *1990 Stephen Solomon *1991 Stephen Solomon *1992

Tony Miles Anthony John Miles (23 April 1955 – 12 November 2001) was an English chess player and the first Englishman to earn the International Grandmaster, Grandmaster title. Early and personal life Miles was born on 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston, a sub ...

*1993

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*1994 Leonid Sandler *1995 Tu Hoang Thong *1996 Nguyen Anh Dung *1997 Stephen Solomon *1998 Chris Depasquale *1999 Gary Lane *2000

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*2001 Guy West

*2002 Guy West

*2003 Stephen Solomon *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 ...

*2005

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*2006

George Xie George Xie is an Australian chess player. He is an International Master (IM), 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, winn ...

*2008 Vladimir Smirnov *2009 Stephen Solomon *2010 Stephen Solomon *2011 James Morris *2012 Anton Smirnov,

Bobby Cheng Bobby Cheng (born 20 March 1997) is a New Zealand-Australian chess grandmaster. Cheng was world champion in the under 12 category in 2009, the only Australian in history to win a world over-the-board title. Cheng won Australian Open championship ...

, 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 2014 ...

and

Vasily Papin Vasily Viktorovich Papin (Russian: Василий Викторович Папин; born 21 September 1988, in Moscow) is a Russian chess Grandmaster. Chess career In his younger years, Papin competed in numerous national and international jun ...

*2014

, Rustam Khuznutdinov and

Murtas Kazhgaleyev Murtas Kazhgaleyev (; born 17 November 1973) is a Kazakhstani chess player who received the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM) in 1998. Chess career In 2004, he tied for first with Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux. K ...

*2015 Kanan Izzat *2016 Anton Smirnov *2017

Adrien Demuth Adrien Demuth (born 14 April 1991) is a French chess grandmaster. Chess career Born in 1991, Demuth earned his international master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Éche ...

*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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Winners

IM and GM norms

See also

References