Australasian Masters

The Australasian Masters (formerly 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 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

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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Major recurring international chess tournaments
Major present	Bilbao Chess Masters Final Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting Grenke Chess Classic London Chess Classic Norway Chess Shamkir Chess Sinquefield Cup Tal Memorial Tata Steel Chess Tournament Zurich Chess Challenge
Other present	Aeroflot Open Australasian Masters Biel Chess Festival Canadian Open Chess Championship Capablanca Memorial Cappelle-la-Grande Open Carlos Torre Repetto Memorial Chigorin Memorial Doeberl Cup Dubai Open Chess Tournament Gibraltar Chess Festival Hastings International Chess Congress Lublin Grandmaster Tournament Millionaire Chess Paul Keres Memorial Tournament Qatar Masters Open Reykjavik Open Riga Technical University Open Rubinstein Memorial South African Open U.S. Open Chess Championship Vidmar Memorial Vlissingen chess tournament World Open Xtracon Chess Open Zurich Christmas Open
Recently cancelled	Alekhine Memorial (1956–2013 irregular) Acropolis International chess tournament (1968–2009) Aerosvit chess tournament (2006–2008) Amber chess tournament (1992–2011) Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament (2003–2009) Linares International Chess Tournament (1978–2010) North Sea Cup (chess) (1976-2008) Pearl Spring chess tournament (2008–2010) Reggio Emilia chess tournament (1947–2012)
Major past	American Chess Congress (1857–1923) Carl Schlechter Memorial Tournament (1923–1996) DSB Congress (1879–1932) General Government chess tournament (1940–1944) IBM international chess tournament (1961–1981) Konex chess tournament (1977–1994) Leopold Trebitsch Memorial Tournament (1907–1938) Lone Pine International (1971–1981) M-Tel Masters (2005–2009) Mar del Plata chess tournament (1928–2001) Max Euwe Memorial Tournament (1987–1996) Monte Carlo chess tournament (1901–1904; 1967–1969) Netanya chess tournament (1961–1983) Palma de Mallorca (1965-1972) Phillips & Drew Kings (1980–1986) Piatigorsky Cup (1963–1966) San Sebastián chess tournament (1911–1912) Silesian Chess Congress (1922–1939) Tilburg chess tournament (1977–1998) Triberg chess tournament (1914–1917)
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