The chess games of Trevor Tao

Trevor Tao
Number of games in database: 14
Years covered: 1994 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2430
Highest rating achieved in database: 2440
Overall record: +8 -3 =3 (67.9%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

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TREVOR TAO
(born 1977) Australia

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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 rating as at 1 May 2013 was 2430, making him the 4th ranked player in Australia.

Article about the Tao family: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new... Photo: http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=t...

page 1 of 1; 14 games

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Kudrin vs T Tao	½-½	26	1994	Olympiad	C07 French, Tarrasch
2. Y Shulman vs T Tao	1-0	52	1994	Moscow ol (Men)	E17 Queen's Indian
3. A Goldsmith vs T Tao	0-1	33	2002	Adelaide University op	C46 Three Knights
4. A Goldsmith vs T Tao	0-1	18	2002	Adelaide University op	C47 Four Knights
5. I Rogers vs T Tao	1-0	27	2004	ch-AUS	C16 French, Winawer
6. B Jones vs T Tao	0-1	18	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A53 Old Indian
7. T Tao vs Rozentalis	½-½	40	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	E10 Queen's Pawn Game
8. T Tao vs N Goodhue	1-0	60	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A21 English
9. T Tao vs T Reilly	1-0	37	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
10. T Tao vs Li Chao	½-½	88	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A16 English
11. J Morris vs T Tao	0-1	33	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	B15 Caro-Kann
12. J Ikeda vs T Tao	0-1	56	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A37 English, Symmetrical
13. T Tao vs Marc Repplinger	1-0	34	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	C05 French, Tarrasch
14. Zhao Jun vs T Tao	1-0	48	2012	Queenstown Chess Classic	A85 Dutch, with c4 & Nc3

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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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