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Trevor Tao

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A16		English (4 games)
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B51		Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack (2 games)
C46		Three Knights (2 games)
C16		French, Winawer (2 games)
A04		Reti Opening (2 games)
A45		Queen's Pawn Game (2 games)
A22		English (2 games)

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   🏆 Australian Championship
   T Tao vs S Asaka (Jan-11-24) 0-1
   H A Nguyen vs T Tao (Jan-10-24) 0-1
   Y Liu vs T Tao (Jan-09-24) 1-0
   T Tao vs R Sardana (Jan-08-24) 1/2-1/2
   T Tao vs T K Le (Jan-07-24) 1/2-1/2

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TREVOR TAO (born Nov-22-1977, 47 years old) Australia [what is this?] Tao is an International Master. He is the son of pediatrician Billy Tao and mathematician Grace Tao, brother of mathematics prodigies Terry and Nigel Tao (the former the 2006 Fields Medalist), and diagnosed from age two as autistic. Trevor also won prizes in mathematics and classical music compositions while a teenager. Trevor won the Australian Junior in 1992 at the age of 14, represented Australia at the 1994 Olympiad on 1st reserve (aged 17, rated 2420), and won the South Australian Championship in 1994, 1996-7 and 2006. He won his first IM norm at the 1994 Australian Championship and came 4th in the Australian Championship of 2004, scoring his 2nd IM norm. He won his third norm from his 7/9 result (+6 -1 =2; TPR 2565) at the Queenstown Chess Classic (2012), his first FIDE rated games since he won the South Australian Championship in 2006. Tao's highest rating was 2440 in March 2012. Last updated: 2023-09-06 13:46:51

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page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 67  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. C Depasquale vs T Tao   0-1 72 1993 Australian Championship 1993/94 A00 Uncommon Opening 2. T Tao vs T Reilly   1-0 38 1993 Australian Championship 1993/94 A10 English 3. A Wohl vs T Tao   0-1 58 1993 Australian Championship 1993/94 C16 French, Winawer 4. T Tao vs S J Solomon   1-0 52 1993 Australian Championship 1993/94 A22 English 5. J P Wallace vs T Tao   1-0 31 1993 Australian Championship 1993/94 D26 Queen's Gambit Accepted 6. D K Johansen vs T Tao   ½-½ 44 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 A30 English, Symmetrical 7. T Tao vs I Goldenberg   ½-½ 41 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 D48 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav, Meran 8. T Tao vs M Gluzman   0-1 49 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 9. G West vs T Tao   0-1 66 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 A30 English, Symmetrical 10. T Tao vs I Kagan   1-0 41 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 11. T Tao vs N Kagan   ½-½ 120 1994 Australian Championship 1993/94 A16 English 12. R O'Brien vs T Tao   0-1 23 1994 Doeberl Cup A07 King's Indian Attack 13. L Sandler vs T Tao   ½-½ 48 1994 Doeberl Cup A30 English, Symmetrical 14. T Tao vs D Hamilton   1-0 37 1994 Doeberl Cup A16 English 15. D Gedevanishvili vs T Tao   1-0 60 1994 Doeberl Cup E02 Catalan, Open, 5.Qa4 16. T Tao vs G West   1-0 42 1994 Doeberl Cup A14 English 17. A Allen vs T Tao   0-1 43 1994 Doeberl Cup D21 Queen's Gambit Accepted 18. Kudrin vs T Tao   ½-½ 26 1994 Moscow Olympiad C07 French, Tarrasch 19. Shulman vs T Tao   1-0 52 1994 Moscow Olympiad E17 Queen's Indian 20. V Zhuravliov vs T Tao   1-0 111 1994 Moscow Olympiad C02 French, Advance 21. T Tao vs B Jones   1-0 43 1995 Australian Championship 1995/96 A56 Benoni Defense 22. I Belin vs T Tao   0-1 50 1995 Australian Championship 1995/96 E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 23. T Tao vs D Gedevanishvili   0-1 54 1995 Australian Championship 1995/96 A16 English 24. A Wohl vs T Tao   1-0 41 1995 Australian Championship 1995/96 E43 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation 25. M Drummond vs T Tao   1-0 23 1996 Australian Championship 1995/96 E40 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3  page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 67

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Feb-08-07    KingG: I think this is the brother of the mathematical genius Terence Tao(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terenc...), who won the Fields medal last year. Feb-08-07    whatthefat: Indeed it is. He's the strongest untitled player in Australia. Jan-23-12    Benzol: <whatthefat> <Indeed it is. He's the strongest untitled player in Australia.> Trevor has now scored his third IM norm at the 2012 Queenstown Classic so a title should be awarded very shortly. Congratulations Trevor. :) Apr-18-12    twinlark: Congratulations Trevor on having your IM title formally awarded to you. What an absolutely outstanding result to come back after 6 years and immediately win your 3rd IM norm and the title. Hope you keep it up. Apr-18-12    ozmikey: Congratulations to Trevor. If he'd had the inclination to really work at his game he would surely be a GM by now...at the 1994 Olympiad he was already taking points and half-points off titled players (including a draw with black against Sergey Kudrin which unfortunately isn't in the database here), and this was when he was still almost entirely a "natural" player.

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