| Oct-14-04 |
| tintin: This guy used to be part of the NSWJCL club (of which i am a member), and now is the top U20 in Australia, and is in the top 10 overall. He is pretty good. ,I also just realised one of my friends came second in the city of sydney junior the other day- cool. |
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| Apr-21-05 |
| tintin: He was in the Australian team in the last Olympiad, though his name is really Zong Yuan Zhao, not the other way round, i am pretty sure. |
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Apr-22-05
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| Where is my mind: Yes< chessgames >his name is Zong-Yuan Zhao. <tintin >Nc6 is probably the best reply.Gary Lane mentioned it in one of his columns.He used this game as an example .Woody Harrelson-KasparovW Harrelson vs Kasparov, 1999 |
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| Jun-23-05 |
| tintin: Thanks <Where is my mind>, are you an Aussie? |
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Jul-06-05
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| Where is my mind: <tintin > yes |
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Jan-07-07
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| twinlark: Zhao's leading the Australian Open by a clear point with 8/9, and he's played all three GMs, coming up with a plus score: a win against Dejan Antic, and draws against Ian Rogers and Darryl K Johansen. Unfortunately, his 2650+ performance rating won't translate into a GM norm as the average rating of the field is too low. Better luck in the Sydney International Open in April, perhaps. |
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Jan-08-07
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| twinlark: My mistake, Zhao has also played and defeated Mark Bluvshtein, so he has a 3-1 score against the four GMs. Zhao also won round 10 and now has 9/10. With one round left, he has a clear one point lead on Rogers and Johansen. |
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Jan-08-07
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| Benzol: He's due to play Malcolm Tredinnick next. |
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Jan-09-07
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| whatthefat: Congratulations to Zhao on winning the 2007 Australian Open, with 9.5/11! |
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Jan-09-07
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| Where is my mind: Congratulations to Zong-Yuan Zhao the new Australian Open Champion. 2673 performance rating. |
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Jan-30-08
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| Ken MacGillivray: Congratulations to Zhao for achieving his 3rd and final GM norm at the Gibralter chess congress. This is great news for Australian chess. |
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Feb-01-08
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| the bad bishop: Amazing result. Congratulations!!!
Below is an excerpt from the report on abc news online: <Not only is the 21-year-old student the youngest player to ever become a Grand Master <read Australian>, but he achieved this feat in just seven weeks, when the process usually takes years. He hopes hoped his achievement will help raise the profile of the sport in Australia. Australia's first ever Grand Master, Ian Rogers, was at the Gibraltar Tournament when Mr Zhao gained the title by defeating French Grand Master Gildas Goldsztein. Mr Rogers says becoming a Grand Master is no easy feat. "You need a series of world class performances and Yuan has achieved them in seven weeks, it's a record," he said. "No one has ever scored three Grand Master results in such a short period of time. It's absolutely incredible. "In fact, in Decemeber he played his first ever Grand Master tournament, he won it. His second one, he won that as well. "[He is the] first player in history to win the first two Grand Master tournaments he's played in and this tournament in Gibraltar's been a bigger open tournament with many more Grand Masters in it, but he came through."> Fantastic achievement. |
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| Feb-01-08 |
| Prugno: Looks like it was really a good tournament for the Chinese in Gibraltar... not only for the ones who still represent their country like Bu but even for those who have moved abroad a long time ago, such as Zhao. |
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| Mar-26-08 |
| supertimchan: Who wins more games between Zhao Zong Yuan and Ian Rogers? |
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