Darryl Johansen

Darryl Johansen
Full name	Darryl Keith Johansen
Country	Australia
Born	4 February 1959 Melbourne, Australia
Title	Grandmaster
FIDE rating	2403 (November 2011)
Peak rating	2531 (April 2002)

Darryl Keith Johansen (born 1959, Melbourne, Australia) 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 has won the Australian Chess Championship a record five times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, and 2002). He has also represented Australia at twelve Chess Olympiads.

In 1987, he won the inaugural Australian Masters tournament, and has finished first in this event on two other occasions. In 2009, he won the Sydney International Open held in Parramatta, with a score of 7/9, taking the title on countback 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.

Johansen is currently co-director of a chess teaching company, "Chess Ideas (Australia)", based in Melbourne.

Notes

1. ^ FIDE rating card for Darryl Johansen
2. ^ Third if you count the Australian-born American Walter Browne.

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Name	Johansen, Darryl
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Date of birth	4 February 1959
Place of birth	Australia
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