Max Illingworth

Max Illingworth

Max Illingworth at the 2013 Malaysian Open
Country  Australia
Born (1992-11-05) 5 November 1992
Sydney, Australia
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2517 (January 2016)
Peak rating 2517 (September 2015)

Max Illingworth (born 5 November 1992, Sydney) is an Australian chess Grandmaster, coach and writer. He became a FIDE Master (FM) in 2010, an IM in 2012, a FIDE Trainer in 2014 and a GM in 2016. He is the fifth Australian Grandmaster.

Chess career

Illingworth started playing competitive chess at the age of nine, and represented Australia in the 2007 World Youth Olympiad.[1]

He has competed in six Oceania Chess Championship events in 2007 (Fiji), 2009 (Gold Coast), 2011 (Rotorua), 2012 (Queenstown), 2013 (Nadi) and 2015 (Sydney). His best result was finishing =1st with a score of 7½/9 in the 2015 event.[2] Illingworth won the Steiner Medal (for the Australian Player of the Year) in 2011 and 2012.[3]

Illingworth scored 6/9 to finish =3rd at the 2009 Commonwealth Chess Championship in Singapore.[4][5]

He finished =6th at the 2011 Thailand Open,[6] scored 7/9 and came equal first (scoring a grandmaster norm) at the September 2011 First Saturday GM tournament,[7] and scored 7/10 for Australia at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.[8] These results earned him the IM title[9] and established him as one of Australia's strongest chess players.

Illingworth won the MCC Cup Weekender 2012 with a score of 8½/9.[10] He has also won the New South Wales State Championship for three consecutive years (2011–13) and tied for first place in the 2011 and 2013 NSW Open.[11]

Illingworth tied for second place in the 2013 Australian Open with a score of 8½/11[12][13] and also came equal second in the 2013 Malaysian Open with a score of 7/9.[14]

Illingworth won the 2014 Australian Chess Championship in Springvale with a score of 8/11.[15] He scored 6½/9 for Australia at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromso [16] and obtained his second grandmaster norm at the September 2014 First Saturday GM Tournament, scoring 7/9 and first place.[17] Strong recent domestic results include winning the 2014 MCC Hjorth Open with a score of 9/9,[18] finishing second with an 8/9 score in the 2015 MCC Hjorth Open and placing =2nd in the 2015 Australian Open.[19]

Internationally, Illingworth is known as a chess theoretician, as a contributor to the Australian chess magazine 50 Moves and the New In Chess Yearbook. He also writes surveys for the Chessbase Magazine [20] as well as opening articles for ChessPublishing.[21] Illingworth is a professional chess coach, who has worked with several of Australia's most promising junior players.

References

  1. ↑ History of Australia at the World Youth Olympiads
  2. ↑ 2015 Oceania Zonal Championship Chess-Results
  3. ↑ Steiner Medallists, Australian Player of the Year Australian Chess Federation.
  4. ↑ Commonwealth Open Championships 2009 FIDE Tournament Report
  5. ↑ 2009 Commonwealth Open Chess-Results
  6. ↑ Thailand Open Chess Championship 2011 Chess-Results.com
  7. ↑ Australian victory in Budapest at First Saturday GM tournament. FIDE
  8. ↑ Max Illingworth OlimpBase
  9. ↑ Max Illingworth IM Title Application. FIDE
  10. ↑ MCC Cup Weekender 2012, FIDE Tournament Report
  11. ↑ NSWCA Hall of Fame NSW Chess Association
  12. ↑ 2013 Australian Open Chess Championship official website
  13. ↑ Australian Open 2013 FIDE Tournament Report
  14. ↑ Malaysian Open Chess Championship 2013 FIDE Tournament Report
  15. ↑ http://auschesschamps.com/
  16. ↑ FIDE
  17. ↑
  18. ↑
  19. ↑ Chess-Results
  20. ↑ https://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/chessbase_magazine_158
  21. ↑ http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/7/index.htm
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