The Doeberl Chess Cup 2022 is going to take place 14-18 April in Canberra, Australia. GM Hrant Melkumyan, the winner of the 2019 Deoberl Cup, is the top seeded in the event. Scroll down for full participants list. Throwback: Nisipeanu and Vajda share first place in 2014
Live games Doeberl Chess Cup 2022
Doeberl Chess Cup 2022 participants
1
GM
Melkumyan Hrant
ARM
2649
2
GM
Kuybokarov Temur
AUS
2587
3
GM
Cheng Bobby
AUS
2547
4
GM
Fernandez Daniel Howard
ENG
2492
5
IM
Sardana Rishi
AUS
2461
6
IM
Ikeda Junta
AUS
2460
7
IM
Bjelobrk Igor
AUS
2403
8
GM
Johansen Darryl K
AUS
2382
9
IM
Lane Gary W
AUS
2332
10
FM
Wallis Christopher
AUS
2330
11
FM
Puccini Jack
AUS
2313
12
FM
Winkelman Albert
AUS
2257
13
WGM
Zhang Jilin
AUS
2245
14
FM
Stojic Dusan
AUS
2240
15
WIM
Richards Heather S
AUS
2190
16
Testolin Ryder
AUS
2132
17
Leaver Kyle
AUS
2125
18
FM
Kethro Michael
AUS
2122
19
Press Harry
AUS
2114
20
Clarke Matthew
AUS
2109
21
Litchfield Frederick
AUS
2101
22
Shafruddin Hafiz
MAS
2098
23
CM
Kargosha Bahman
AUS
2084
24
Rodgers Jack
AUS
2083
25
Banerjee Niki
FRA
2043
26
CM
Charles Gareth
AUS
2020
27
Safarian Alek
AUS
2015
28
Bukreyev Andriy
AUS
2015
29
Gong Noah
AUS
1993
30
Li Jackie
AUS
1990
31
CM
Prasad Lalit
AUS
1985
32
Kuan Julian
HKG
1983
33
CM
Li Hui
MAC
1967
34
Datar Tejas
AUS
1953
35
Yin Wenlin
AUS
1934
36
Wedding William
AUS
1915
37
CM
Fikh Anthony
AUS
1903
38
Vincent Alaina
IND
1890
39
Brown Joshua
AUS
1880
40
Yang Gordon
AUS
1879
41
Badrinarayan Sankeertan
AUS
1873
42
Cheng Chao Xin
AUS
1841
43
Holland Dennis
AUS
1840
44
CM
Korenevski Oleg
AUS
1830
45
Siva Sankaran Anup Kumar
IND
1827
46
CM
Slater-Jones Henry
AUS
1823
47
Gibson Kyle
AUS
1820
48
CM
Russell Paul
AUS
1819
49
CM
Davis Tony J
AUS
1810
50
Watson James
AUS
1799
51
Rathinalingam Nethaji
AUS
1790
52
Lu Lillian
AUS
1779
53
Wee Timothy
SGP
1746
The Doeberl Cup is the longest running weekend chess event in Australia. Since 1963 it has been held every year in Canberra, Australia. Grandmaster Ian Rogers holds the record for the most number of wins (either outright or on tie-break) with 12.
The Doeberl Cup was named after its primary sponsor, Erich Doeberl. The family tradition of sponsoring the tournament continues today with Rosemarie Doeberl providing support for her father’s vision. In 2007 O2C was the major sponsor of the tournament and from 2008 has attained the rights to run the tournament.
An account of the first fifty years of the Doeberl Cup has been recorded in Bill Egan’s book, “The Doeberl Cup: Fifty Years of Australian Chess History” As well as full coverage of the fifty years of the event, with many games and diagrams, the book includes a CD-ROM with a database of over six thousand collected Doeberl Cup games, and a searchable record of results for everyone who participated during the fifty years.
Winners
- 2021 Justin Tan (AUS)
- 2020 (Event Cancelled)
- 2019 Hrant Melkumyan (ARM)
- 2018 Timur Gareyev (USA)
- 2017 Surya Ganguly (IND)
- 2016 James Morris (AUS)
- 2015 Zhou Weiqi (CHN)
- 2014 Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (GER)
- 2013 Li Chao (CHN)
- 2012 Adam Horvath (HUN)
- 2011 Andrei Deviatkin (RUS)
- 2010 Li Chao (CHN)
- 2009 Deep Sengupta (IND)
- 2008 Varuzhan Akobian (USA)
- 2007 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 2006 Igor Goldenberg (AUS)
- 2005 Ian Rogers (AUS), Aleksandar Wohl (AUS)
- 2004 Zong-Yuan Zhao (AUS)
- 2003 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 2002 David Smerdon (AUS)
- 2001 Darryl Johansen (AUS)
- 2000 Aleksandar Wohl (AUS)
- 1999 Darryl Johansen (AUS)
- 1998 Michael Gluzman (AUS)
- 1997 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1996 Darryl Johansen (AUS)
- 1995 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1994 Darryl Johansen (AUS)
- 1993 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1992 Tony Miles (ENG)
- 1991 Ketevan Arakhamia (GEO)
- 1990 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1989 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1988 Larry Christiansen (USA)
- 1987 Greg Hjorth (AUS)
- 1986 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1985 Greg Hjorth (AUS)
- 1984 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1983 Maxwell Fuller (AUS)
- 1982 Greg Hjorth (AUS)
- 1981 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1980 Ian Rogers (AUS)
- 1979 Fred Flatow (AUS)
- 1978 Robert Murray Jamieson (AUS)
- 1977 Philip Viner (AUS)
- 1976 Robert Murray Jamieson (AUS)
- 1975 Maxwell Fuller (AUS)
- 1974 Maxwell Fuller (AUS)
- 1973 Anthony Wiedenhofer (AUS)
- 1972 Fred Flatow (AUS)
- 1971 Terrey Shaw (AUS)
- 1970 Cecil Purdy (AUS), Terrey Shaw (AUS), Fred Flatow (AUS)
- 1969 Doug Hamilton (AUS)
- 1968 Ken Hill (AUS)
- 1967 John Kellner (AUS)
- 1966 Bill Geus (AUS)
- 1965 Bill Geus (AUS)
- 1964 Cecil Purdy (AUS)
- 1963 John Purdy (AUS)