John-Paul Wallace

John-Paul Wallace
John-Paul Wallace, Groningen 2012
Country	Australia (until 2023)  Norway (since 2023)
Born	(1976-11-19) 19 November 1976 (age 48)[1] Liverpool, Australia
Title	International Master (1996)
Peak rating	2419 (July 2006)

John-Paul Wallace (born 19 November 1976 in Liverpool, New South Wales) is a professional chess player awarded the title of International Master in 1996 by FIDE (World Chess Federation).[2]

He has represented Australia in two Chess Olympiads in Moscow, Russia in 1994 and Yerevan, Armenia in 1996.[3]

He holds the record for the youngest Australian chess champion to date. He achieved this in the 1993/94 Australian Chess Championship at the age of 17.[4] He won the Pratt Foundation Australian Open chess tournament in 2003[5] before moving to Europe and currently resides in London.

In February 2023, after many years without strong tournament performances, John-Paul won the Kragero Open in Norway ahead of 12 Grandmasters and scored a GM norm -http://turneringsservice.sjakklubb.no/standings.aspx?TID=KrageroResortChessInternationa2023-KrageroSjakklubbUngdom

John-Paul works as a professional chess coach and is a contributor to various magazines and websites including chesspublishing.com and chesslecture.com.[4] John-Paul is a co-director of Wallace Chess Ltd.[6]

References

1. John-Paul Wallace player profile and games at Chessgames.com
2. John-Paul Wallace player profile, www.fide.com
3. John-Paul Wallace player statistics from www.olimpbase.org
4. Meet The Masters Archived 19 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine, www.chesslecture.com
5. John-Paul Wins!, 2003 Australian Open
6. Wallace Chess homepage

External links

• John-Paul Wallace's Personal Website
• John Paul Wallace rating card at FIDE