Justin Tan
Justin Tan | |
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Country | Australia |
Born | 19 March 1997 Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom | (age 27)
Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
FIDE rating | 2510 (December 2024) |
Peak rating | 2533 (March 2022) |
Justin Tan (born 19 March 1997)[1][2] is an Australian chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018, becoming the 8th Australian to achieve the title.[3] He was formerly British Blitz Champion and was British Under-21 Champion twice (2016 and 2018).[4][5][6]
Chess career
[edit]Tan learned to play chess at the age of seven.[7] As a junior, he represented Australia at four World Youth Chess Championships (Vietnam 2008, Under-12), (Turkey 2009, U-16), (Brazil 2011, Under-14), (Greece 2015, Under-18) and twice at the World Youth Chess Olympiad in Turkey (2012) and China (2013).[8][9][10][11][12][13]
Tan moved to England in 2013 to study under a chess scholarship at Woodbridge School, Suffolk. He became an International Master in 2015 after gaining his final International Master norm at the Bunratty Classic, Ireland.[14][15]
In 2015, Tan achieved his first Grandmaster norm at the Colin Crouch Memorial Congress at Harrow, London.[16] At the 2015 Under-18 World Youth Chess Championships in Greece, Tan tied for fourth place, after defeating GM Kirill Alekseenko.[17]
In 2016, Tan tied for third place with GM Gawain Jones and also became British Under-21 Champion at the 103rd British Chess Championship at Bournemouth, gaining his second GM norm in the process.[18][19] In the same year, Tan was joint winner with GM Luke McShane at the DeMontford Bell Kings Place Rapidplay.[20]
In 2018, Tan won the Paracin Open in Serbia, securing his final GM norm and the Grandmaster title.[21] He became British Blitz Champion in 2019 after winning the UK Open Blitz Championship.[22]
In 2021, Tan won the O2C Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia, with a score of 7.5/9.[23] In 2022, he won the inaugural Chessemy Open in Reinstorf, Germany, in a field of over 160 players.[24]
Tan represented Australia on Board 4 at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai scoring 5/8.[25]
Tan plays in the top division of the UK 4NCL for Wood Green and has previously played in the Dutch and the Icelandic leagues for BSG and Taflfélag Garðabæjar respectively.[26][27][28]
Since 2018, Tan has been a monthly author for Chess Publishing.[29]
Books
[edit]- Tan, Justin (2021). 1.e4! The Chess Bible – Volume 1 – A Complete Repertoire for White . Thinkers Publishing. ISBN 9789464201123
Biography
[edit]Tan was born and grew up in Cardiff, South Wales, United Kingdom, until the age of seven, when his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. He is a dual Australian and British citizen.[30]
Until 2013, Tan was an elite national gymnast and a member of the Australian national artistic gymnastics squad.[31] He was the Australian Under-16 national individual apparatus champion on pommel horse in 2012.[32]
Tan graduated in law with honours from the University of Edinburgh and is an Erasmus alumnus of Utrecht University.[33][34][35]
References
[edit]- ^ "Title Application (Form IT2)" (PDF). FIDE. 27 July 2018.
- ^ Upham, John (19 March 2020). "Happy Birthday GM Justin Tan (19-iii-1997)". British Chess News.
- ^ "FIDE Profile".
- ^ "Prizewinners' List 2016 – British Chess Championships". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - UK Blitz Open 2019". chess-results.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Prizewinners 2018 – British Chess Championships". britishchesschampionships.co.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Woodbridge: Chess prodigy Justin aims to be a grandmaster". East Anglian Daily Times. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "World Youth Chess Championship 2008".
- ^ "World Youth Chess Championship 2009, Kemer-Antalya, Turkey - Chessdom". Archived from the original on 24 November 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Chess Championship - U 14 Open". chess-results.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Ch 2015 - Open under 18". chess-results.com. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - WORLD YOUTH UNDER-16 CHESS OLYMPIAD - 2012". chess-results.com. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "OlimpBase :: 12th World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad, Chongqing 2013, Australia "A"". olimpbase.org. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Student becomes Master as chess ace seals international title". East Anglian Daily Times. 12 March 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess prodigy Justin Tan wins final IM norm at Bunratty Classic". The Telegraph. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Pein, Malcolm (10 April 2016). "Justin Tan boosts GM title charge with solid performance at Colin Crouch Memorial". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - World Youth Ch 2015 - Open under 18". chess-results.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Michael Adams equals record score while winning British Championship". The Guardian. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Prizewinners' List 2016 – British Chess Championships". Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Luke McShane and Justin Tan share first place at Kings Place Chess Festival". The Guardian. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Justin Tan wins Paracin open 2018 - Chessdom". 14 July 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "UK Open Blitz". English Chess Federation. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2021 O2C Doeberl Cup Premier". chess-results.com. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - chessemy Open". chess-results.com. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 Open". chess-results.com. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ^ "4NCL List of Players".
- ^ "Meesterklasse - Opstellingen". Schaken. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - Icelandic Team Championship 2019-21 - 1st division". chess-results.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Tan, Justin; Fernandez, Daniel. "1.e4". chesspublishing.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Tan, Justin. "FIDE Title Application".
- ^ Gymnastics Australia (2014). "Annual Report" (PDF). p. 43.
- ^ Gymnastics Australia (24 May 2012). "Justin Tan Pommel Horse L9U16 2012.MTS - YouTube". youtube.com. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "Adams takes his sixth British title". Chess News. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "The University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - UoE". ResearchGate. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
- ^ "Australian Chess Federation Newsletter 31 July 2018". us12.campaign-archive.com. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
External links
[edit]- Justin Tan rating card at FIDE