Max Illingworth

Max Illingworth

Max Illingworth at the 2013 Malaysian Open
Country  Australia
Born 5 November 1992[1]
Australia
Title International Master
FIDE rating 2495 (May 2015)
Peak rating 2493 (December 2014)

Max Illingworth (born 5 November 1992, in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian chess International Master (IM), chess coach and writer.[2] He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 2010, an IM in 2012 and a FIDE Trainer in 2014.[3]

Chess career

Illingworth started playing competitive chess at the age of nine, and represented Australia in the 2007 World Youth Olympiad.[4]

He has competed in five Oceania Chess Championship events in 2007 (Fiji), 2009 (Gold Coast), 2011 (Rotorua), 2012 (Queenstown), and 2013 (Nadi). His best result was finishing =3rd with a score of 6½/9 in the 2011 event.[5] Illingworth won the Steiner Medal (for the Australian Player of the Year) in 2011 and 2012.[6]

Illingworth scored 6/9 to finish =3rd at the 2009 Commonwealth Chess Championship in Singapore.[7][8]

He finished =6th at the 2011 Thailand Open,[9] scored 7/9 and came =1st (scoring a Grandmaster norm result) at the September 2011 First Saturday GM tournament,[10] and scored 7/10 for Australia at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.[11] These results earned him the IM title[12] and established him as one of Australia's strongest chess players.

Illingworth won the MCC Cup Weekender 2012 with a score of 8½/9.[13] He has also won the NSW State Championship for three consecutive years (2011–13) and tied for first place in the 2011 and 2013 NSW Open.[14]

Illingworth tied for second place in the 2013 Australian Open with a score of 8½/11[15][16] and also came equal second in the 2013 Malaysian Open with a score of 7/9.[17]

Illingworth won the 2014 Australian Chess Championship in Springvale with a score of 8/11.[18] He scored 6½/9 for Australia at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromso [19] and obtained his second Grandmaster norm at the September 2014 First Saturday GM Tournament, scoring 7/9 and first place.[20] He also won the 2014 MCC Hjorth Open with a score of 9/9[21] and placed =2nd in the 2015 Australian Open.[22]

He needs one more Grandmaster norm and a rating increase to become Australia's fifth Grandmaster.

Internationally, Illingworth is known as a chess theoretician, as a contributor to the New In Chess Yearbook. He also writes surveys for the Chessbase Magazine [23] as well as opening articles for ChessPublishing.[24] He writes for the Australian chess magazine 50 Moves. Illingworth is a professional chess coach, who has worked with several of Australia's most promising junior players.

References

  1. ↑ Max Illingworth player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  2. ↑ http://www.illingworthchess.com
  3. ↑ Max Illingworth player profile, www.fide.com
  4. ↑ History of Australia at the World Youth Olympiads
  5. ↑ 2011 Oceania Zonal Championship official web page
  6. ↑ Steiner Medallists, Australian Player of the Year Australian Chess Federation.
  7. ↑ Commonwealth Open Championships 2009 FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com
  8. ↑ 2009 Commonwealth Open Final Rankings, www.chess-results.com
  9. ↑ Thailand Open Chess Championship 2011 Final rankings, www.chess-results.com
  10. ↑ Australian victory in Budapest at First Saturday GM tournament, www.fide.com
  11. ↑ Max Illingworth Chess Olympiad record, www.olimpbase.org
  12. ↑ Max Illingworth IM Title Application, 83rd FIDE Congress, Istanbul, TUR, 27 Aug - 10 Sept 2012
  13. ↑ MCC Cup Weekender 2012, FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com
  14. ↑ NSWCA Hall of Fame NSW Chess Association www.nswca.org.au
  15. ↑ 2013 Australian Open Chess Championship official website
  16. ↑ Australian Open 2013 FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com
  17. ↑ Malaysian Open Chess Championship 2013 FIDE Tournament Report, www.fide.com
  18. ↑ http://auschesschamps.com/
  19. ↑
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  23. ↑ https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_magazine_158
  24. ↑ http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/7/index.htm

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