| Aleksandar Wohl | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Aleksandar Wohl |
| Country | Australia |
| Born | 1963 |
| Title | International Master |
| FIDE rating | 2457 (November 2009) |
| Peak rating | 2461 (July 2000) |
Aleksandar Wohl (born 21 July 1963) is an Australian chess player, International Master.
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He won the Australian Championship in 1992. In 1989 he won the Australian Open Chess Championship and in 2009 tied for 1st with George Xie.[1] Played for Australia in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1996, 2000, 2002 and 2006.[2]
In 2000 he won the Oceania Zonal and qualified for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2000, but was knocked out in the first round by Alexander Galkin.[3]
Other successful performances include 1st in the 38th Doeberl Cup Canberra 2000,[4] =1st with Ian Rogers in the 43rd Doeberl Cup Canberra 2005,[5] 3rd in the Master Open Cutro 2006,[6] =1st with Eduard Fomichenko in the 11th Vins du Medoc International Open 2008,[7] 1st in the Schlosspark Open 2009[8] and 1st at Muenchen 2010.[9]
According to Chessmetrics, at his peak in June 1992 Wohl's play was equivalent to a rating of 2503, and he was ranked number 523 in the world. His best single performance was at AUS-ch Melbourne, 1991, where he scored 5 of 6 possible points (83%) against 2478-rated opposition, for a performance rating of 2611.[10]
In the November 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2457, making him Australia's number 4.