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Ian Rogers
I Rogers 
Photo courtesy of "WannaBe"  

Number of games in database: 2,436
Years covered: 1972 to 2007
Last FIDE rating: 2545 (2550 rapid)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2618
Overall record: +1240 -372 =778 (68.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 46 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (254) 
    B22 B40 B82 B32 B33
 French Defense (117) 
    C11 C00 C18 C10 C19
 Queen's Pawn Game (109) 
    A45 D02 A46 E00 A40
 King's Indian (86) 
    E92 E80 E94 E91 E93
 French (55) 
    C11 C00 C10 C12
 Uncommon Opening (50) 
    A00 B00
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (159) 
    B32 B22 B30 B39 B33
 French Defense (108) 
    C16 C07 C02 C04 C03
 Queen's Pawn Game (106) 
    A46 A41 E10 D02 A45
 Caro-Kann (96) 
    B12 B13 B18 B14 B10
 Scandinavian (87) 
    B01
 King's Indian (83) 
    E62 E91 E70 E94 E60
Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   I Rogers vs G Milos, 1992 1-0
   K Georgiev vs I Rogers, 1993 0-1
   I Rogers vs Shirov, 1990 1-0
   M Lanzani vs I Rogers, 1984 0-1
   I Rogers vs Huebner, 1988 1-0
   I Rogers vs F Delay, 1985 1-0
   I Rogers vs J Pribyl, 1985 1-0
   I Rogers vs J Brenninkmeijer, 1990 1-0
   Chandler vs I Rogers, 1983 1/2-1/2
   I Rogers vs V Arapovic, 1985 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Australian Championship 1979/80 (1979)
   Australian Championship 1985/86 (1985)
   Borsodtavho SC II (1991)
   Calcutta (1988)
   New Zealand Championship 1996/97 (1996)
   Jakarta Zonal (1993)
   Australian Open 1992/93 (1992)
   Black Opal Masters (1998)
   New Zealand Championship 1999/00 (1999)
   Biel Credis (1996)
   Australian Championship 1981/82 (1981)
   Australian Masters (1992)
   Netway Masters (1992)
   Australian Championship 2003/04 (2003)
   Australian Open 1986/87 (1986)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Australia Beats The World by BeerCanChicken
   Australia Beats The World by Runemaster
   Szirak 1986 by Tabanus
   2005-6 Australian championship by gauer
   Plaza International Chess Tt 1988 by Benzol
   Netway Masters Tt 1992 by Benzol
   Pan-Pacific GM Tournament, San Francisco 1991 by wanabe2000
   Corus Invitation Tens 2002 by Tabanus
   2002 Corus (group A) by gauer
   Linz 1997 by Phony Benoni

GAMES ANNOTATED BY ROGERS: [what is this?]
   I Rogers vs V Arapovic, 1985
   Keene vs I Rogers, 1979

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IAN ROGERS
(born Jun-24-1960, 65 years old) Australia

[what is this?]
Ian Rogers was born in Hobart, Tasmania.

Awarded the IM title in 1980 and the GM title in 1985, Rogers was Australia's first home grown grandmaster and Australian Champion in 1979-80, 1985-86, 1997-98 and 2005-06. Rogers competed in 14 Olympiads for Australia between 1978 and 2006 inclusive, playing top board in every event except 1978 (4th) and 1984 (2nd) and won the Australian Grand Prix in 1989, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2004.

Rogers was also joint Commonwealth Champion in 1983. In tournaments he was 1st= at Nuroro 1984, 1st= at Wijk aan Zee 1985, 1st at Kragujevac 1985, 3rd= at Szirak 1986, 1st at Calcutta 1988, 1st at Groningen in 1988 and 1989 by a clear point, and =1st in Groningen in 1990; 1st at the 1st ASEAN International Open in Brunei; =1st at the Corus invitational GM 2002, =1st in the 2004 and 2005 Bangkok Club Opens; and 2nd in the 2006 42nd Annual American Open. In July 2007, just after winning the Lidums Checkmate Open in Adelaide, Rogers announced his retirement from tournament chess due to health reasons. Since his retirement, he has been a prolific columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times, teaches, coaches and lectures on chess, and was the resident analyst for the USCF during the 2008 and 2010 World Championship matches, and the analyst for crikey.com during the 2010 match.

Rating: Rogers was the top ranked player in Australia from 1984 until he retired in 2007. He was regularly found in the world's top 100 from 1984 to 1999. In January 1999, he was ranked number 49 in the world, with his peak Elo of 2618.

He is the husband of WFM Cathy Rogers and is User: GMIanRogers

Wikipedia article: Rogers, Ian


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 page 1 of 98; games 1-25 of 2,436  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. I Rogers vs B Allison  0-1101972Australian Open 1972/73A52 Budapest Gambit
2. M Ginat vs I Rogers  1-0391972Australian Open 1972/73B98 Sicilian, Najdorf
3. K Perry vs I Rogers  1-0391972Australian Open 1972/73B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer
4. I Rogers vs G Maksacheff  0-1461972Australian Open 1972/73B97 Sicilian, Najdorf
5. D J Hacche vs I Rogers  1-0431973Australian Open 1972/73C46 Three Knights
6. I Rogers vs K Henrick  1-0391973Australian Open 1972/73B03 Alekhine's Defense
7. N Frean vs I Rogers  0-1551973Australian Open 1972/73E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
8. R Pappalardo vs I Rogers  1-0371973Australian Open 1972/73C41 Philidor Defense
9. I O Tiitinen vs I Rogers  0-1621974Melbourne Interclub BD80 Grunfeld
10. I Rogers vs A Crusiz  1-0351974Melbourne Interclub BB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
11. B Chandler vs I Rogers  0-1321974Melbourne Interclub BA51 Budapest Gambit
12. I Rogers vs D Filipovic  1-0421974Melbourne Interclub BB30 Sicilian
13. L Thorpe vs I Rogers  0-1571974Melbourne Interclub BB22 Sicilian, Alapin
14. I Rogers vs Faber  0-1251974Melbourne Interclub BC40 King's Knight Opening
15. K W McGrath vs I Rogers ½-½541975corrB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
16. I Rogers vs J Curtis  0-1251975Australian Championship 1975/76B12 Caro-Kann Defense
17. I Rogers vs D Ellis  1-0361975Australian Championship 1975/76A56 Benoni Defense
18. R Travers vs I Rogers  ½-½241975Australian Championship 1975/76A23 English, Bremen System, Keres Variation
19. K Harrison vs I Rogers  ½-½291975Australian Championship 1975/76C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
20. I Rogers vs J S Purdy  1-0461975Australian Championship 1975/76B22 Sicilian, Alapin
21. G West vs I Rogers 1-0381976Australian Junior ChampionshipC47 Four Knights
22. Booth vs I Rogers 0-1241976AustraliaD07 Queen's Gambit Declined, Chigorin Defense
23. M Fuller vs I Rogers  1-0321976Australian Championship 1975/76A04 Reti Opening
24. I Rogers vs G Koshnitsky  ½-½481976Australian Championship 1975/76C00 French Defense
25. I Rogers vs T Hay  1-0221976Australian Championship 1975/76B40 Sicilian
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Jan-05-06  gazzawhite: <twinlark> You get the weirdest stories at chess tournaments!
Jan-08-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chnebelgrind: Rogers-Johansen 1-0. Rogers and David Smerdon now leading before the final round. Curious course in Murray-Canfell. Did Canfell overlook 58.f4+, when he played 57...Kg5?
Jan-09-06  whatthefat: <Chnebelgrind>
Yeah, looks like something he'll have nightmares about...
Jan-09-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chnebelgrind: After David Smerdon has defeated himself, it seems that Ian Rogers is the new Champion! Congratulation!
Jan-09-06  twinlark: I'd also like to congratulate Ian Rogers. Well done.
Jan-10-06  Where is my mind: Congratulations to Ian Rogers on winning the Australian Championships.An impressive efffort against the strongest field to date.This is the fifth time he has been the Australian champion.

Mar-24-06  BIDMONFA: Ian Rogers

ROGERS, Ian
http://www.bidmonfa.com/rogers_ian....
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Jun-09-06  Runemaster: Ian Rogers features a lot in my new game collection "Australia beats the World": Game Collection: Australia Beats The World

I was surprised myself how many famous scalps there were in this collection. At a quick count, it includes five world champions or world championship challengers.

Jun-12-06  Runemaster: Actually, it's seven champions or challengers - I overlooked Smyslov and Tarrasch.
Jun-26-06  WMD: Sir Donald Bradman, Rod Laver, Michael Hutchence, Cecil Purdy, can you hear me? Your boys took one hell of a beating!
Jul-16-06  whatthefat: <Runemaster>
Not a bad collection there. I'd question the legitimacy of including Lajos Steiner though - especially the games before he emigrated in 1939. Also, since Purdy was a Correspondence World Champion, there must surely be some more games of his that could be included.
Jan-07-07  Albertan: Check out this game by Rogers..it happened at the 1992 Manila Olympiad...three sacrifices by Rogers...yet Kasparov would not vote for this game for the Brilliancy Prize...instead Kasparov submitted three of his own games for the brillancy prize...what an ego!!

[Event "Manila ol (Men)"]
[Site "Manila"]
[Date "1992.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rogers, Ian"]
[Black "Milos, Gilberto"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "2550"]
[BlackElo "2515"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "1992.06.??"]
[EventType "team"]
[EventRounds "14"]
[EventCountry "PHI"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1994.03.01"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 Bg4 4.e4 e6
5.h3 Bh5 6.Qe2 c6 7.g4 Bg6 8.Bg5 Be7
9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.h4 h6 11.O-O-O Nd7
12.Kb1 Qc7 13.Rg1 h5 14.g5 Be7 15.d5 e5 16.Bh3 O-O-O 17.Nd2 Kb8 18.Nc4 Nb6 19.Nxb6 Qxb6 20.Rd3 Ka8 21.a3 Rdf8
22.Bf5 Bh7 23.Rgd1 g6 24.dxc6 bxc6
25.Bd7 Qc7 26.Bxc6+ {The first sacrifice (an exchange sacrifice). Qxc6 27.Nd5 Bd8 28.Rc3 Qb7 29.Rb3 Qc6 (29... Qc8 30. Qb5 a6 31. Qa4 f6 32. Nb6+ Bxb6 33.Rxb6 $18) 30. Rdd3 Ba5 31. Rdc3 The second sacrifice. Bxc3 32.Qa6 Qxa6 $4 The third sacrifice. (32... Rc8 $142 33. Nb6+ Qxb6 34. Rxb6 Rc7 35. bxc3 Rhc8 36. Rxd6) 33. Nc7# 1-0

Jul-08-07  Where is my mind: GM Ian Rogers retires a winner http://chessexpress.blogspot.com/20...
Jul-08-07  Benzol: I'm saddened that illness has cut his competitive career short and I wish him all the best in his retirement. He's done a great deal for chess in the whole of Australasia. Good luck Ian.
Jul-08-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Jonathan Sarfati: <Albertan>, reinvented the wheel a bit? See I Rogers vs G Milos, 1992 As you will see from my comments, I agree with your sentiments though.
Apr-10-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Can't believe it's taken me this long to realize that GM Rogers no longer competes...

I very much love his articles in the USCF magazine that I get, and I will remember the time he was at the American Open (where the picture was taken) and the pleasure I had meeting him!

(As a side note, the picture was taken after his draw against a much weaker player, and he kept on moving/fidgeting as I try to capture the 'perfect shot' of him, finally, he realized what I was trying to do, and stopped moving, gave me the opportunity for the picture that's displayed here. =)

Apr-10-08  twinlark: <WannaBe>

He's a terrific commentator as well. At the recent tournament in Canberra he was commenting on the top games (usually GM games) on demonstration boards. He is so engaging and insightful, it was impossible to leave his analysis sessions before he finished.

His retirement loses a top player for Australia, but he's mentoring some of our up and coming players, most recently Zhao Zong Yuan who recently gained his GM title after winning 3 GM norms in a few weeks. That's not to mention all the columns he writes, such as in the Canberra Times, and his other unsung work for Australian chess.

Ian's an awesome bloke.

Jun-24-08  brankat: Happy Birthday GM Rogers!
Dec-14-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: <twinlark>That's not to mention all the columns he writes, such as in the Canberra Times.

twinlark,
Ian Rogers also writes a column for the Sydney "Sun-Herald" newspaper. I think Rogers is concentrating on coaching these days - he was the coach for Malaysian IM Mas Hafizulhelmi at the 2008 Malaysian Open.

Apr-08-09  Bobsterman3000: Ian Rogers is one of the few GM's that plays the Scandinavian as black on a semi-regular basis...
Apr-08-09  Shams: <Bobsterman3000> even fewer are the GMs that play the Scandinavian as white. ;)
Apr-08-09  Bobsterman3000: <shams> LOL. I guess that was a poor choice of words, but you know what I meant ;-)
Jun-24-09  wordfunph: Happy Birthday Australian GM Ian Rogers! I met GM Rogers during a tourney in Tagaytay City 3 years ago.
Jun-24-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Happy Birthday :)
Jul-20-10  Remizatorul: Nice pics gallery here...
http://remizatorul.weebly.com/13/po...
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