Darryl Johansen

Darryl Johansen
Full name Darryl Keith Johansen
Country Australia
Born (1959-02-04) 4 February 1959
Melbourne, Australia
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2428 (January 2016)
Peak rating 2531 (April 2002)

Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959, Melbourne) is an Australian chess Grandmaster.[1] He became an International Master in 1983 and Australia's second Grandmaster, after Ian Rogers,[2] in 1995. Johansen's world ranking peaked at 91st on the July 1983 FIDE rating list, the second highest ranking ever achieved by an Australian.

Johansen has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002 and 2012). He has also represented Australia at 14 Chess Olympiads (1980–96, 2000–04, 2008–10).[3]

He won the Lloyds Bank Masters tournament in London in 1983, ahead of Viktor Korchnoi. In 1987, he won the inaugural Australian Masters tournament, and has finished first in this event on two other occasions. He won the 2002 Oceania Chess Championship[4] and represented the Oceania Zone at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004.[5] In 2009, he won the Sydney International Open held in Parramatta, with a score of 7/9, winning the title on tiebreak ahead of George Xie, Abhijit Kunte, and Gawain Jones. This made him the first Australian to win the event. He has also won the Victorian State Chess Championships twelve times, the last occasion being in 2009. In January 2012, Johansen tied for 1st–3rd with Li Chao and Zhao Jun in the third Queenstown Chess Classic, winning the tournament on tiebreak.[6][7]

Johansen is currently co-director of a chess coaching company, "Chess Ideas", based in Melbourne.

References

  1. ↑ Darryl Johansen rating card at FIDE
  2. ↑ Third if the Australian-born American Walter Browne is counted.
  3. ↑ "Men's Chess Olympiads: Darryl Johansen". OlimpBase. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
  4. ↑ Oceania Zone Champions Oceania Chess Confederation
  5. ↑ October 2004 FIDE Rating Calculations for Darryl Johansen FIDE
  6. ↑ Nadig, Kruttika (2012-01-23). "2012 Queenstown Chess Classic ends with three winners". ChessBase.com. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  7. ↑ "GM Darryl K Johansen claims the Queenstown Chess Classic 2012date=2012-01-24". Chessdom. Retrieved 11 December 2015.

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