Australasian Masters

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The Australian Masters is a chess tournament that has been held in Melbourne, 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 Michael Gluzman
1994 Leonid Sandler
1995 Tu Hoang Thong
1996 Nguyen Anh Dung
1997 Stephen Solomon
1998 Chris Depasquale
1999 Gary Lane
2000 Adam Hunt
2001 Guy West Darryl Johansen^[1]
2002 Guy West Michael Gluzman^[2]
2003 Stephen Solomon^[3]
2004 David Smerdon Darryl Johansen
2005 Jesse Noel Sales^[4]
2006 George Xie^[5]
2008 Vladimir Smirnov^[6]
2009 Stephen Solomon^[7]
2010 Stephen Solomon^[8]
2011 James Morris^[9]^[10]
2012 Anton Smirnov, Bobby Cheng, James Morris^[11]^[12]
2013 Normunds Miezis and Vasily Papin
2014 Vasily Papin, Rustam Khuznutdinov and Murtas Kazhgaleyev
2015 Kanan Izzat
2016 Anton Smirnov
2017 Vasily Papin, Adrien Demuth
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

^ 2001 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2002 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2003 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2005 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2006 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2008 Australian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2009 Australasian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2010 Australasian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2011 Australasian Masters Results Archived April 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Chess Victoria, retrieved Dec 2012
^ 2011 Australasian Masters FIDE Tournament Report
^ 2012 Australasian Masters Box Hill Chess Club, retrieved Dec 2012
^ 2012 Australasian Masters FIDE Tournament Report

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