Which title was conferred to Max Illingworth in 2014?
Max Illingworth Max Illingworth ( born 5 November 1992 ) is an Australian chess player , trainer and writer . He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016 , becoming the fifth Australian to achieve this . Illingworth won the Steiner Medal ( for the Australian Player of the Year ) in 2011 , 2012 and 2015 . His current Fide rating is 2493 . He retired from competitive chess in 2019 , to concentrate on coaching and writing . Chess career . Illingworth started playing competitive chess at the age of nine . He played for team Australia in the 2007 World Youth U16 Olympiad . In the same year he competed for the first time in the Oceania zonal championship , which was held in Nadi , Fiji . His result in this tournament gained him a direct award of the title Candidate Master by FIDE . Illingworth scored 6/9 points to finish in a tie for third at the 2009 Commonwealth Chess Championship in Singapore . The next year , he was awarded the title of FIDE Master . Illingworth won the First Saturday GM tournament of September 2011 on tiebreak from Levente Vajda scoring 7/9 . Thanks to this result he achieved his first norm for the title of Grandmaster . He scored 7/10 for Australia at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul . These results earned him the title of International Master , which FIDE awarded him in the congress held during the Olympiad , and established him as one of Australias strongest chess players . Illingworth won the MCC Cup Weekender 2012 with a score of 8½/9 points . He has also won the New South Wales State Championship for three consecutive years ( 2011–13 ) and tied for first place in the 2011 and 2013 NSW Open . In 2013 , llingworth tied for second place in the Australian Open with a score of 8½/11 points and in the 10th IGB Dato Arthur Tan Malaysian Open with a score of 7/9 . Illingworth won the 2014 Australian Chess Championship in Springvale , Victoria with a score of 8/11 . He scored 6½/9 for Australia at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Tromsø . The next month , he achieved his second grandmaster norm at the First Saturday GM tournament of September 2014 , where he took first place . Strong domestic results include winning the 2014 MCC Hjorth Open with a score of 9/9 and shared second place with Murtas Kazhgaleyev in the 2015 Australian Open . Illingworth won the 2015 Oceania zonal championship after a playoff match against Brodie McClymont . As a result , he qualified to play in the FIDE World Cup . In January 2017 Illingworth won the Australian Open Championship in Brisbane . He won the Oceania zonal again in 2019 , held in Guam . Illingworth is a contributor to the Australian chess magazine 50 Moves and the New In Chess Yearbook . He also writes surveys for the ChessBase Magazine as well as opening articles for ChessPublishing . Illingworth is a professional chess coach , who has worked with several of Australias most promising junior players . He was awarded the title of FIDE Trainer in 2014 . Illingworth retired from competitive chess in 2019 , to concentrate on coaching and writing . External links . - Max Illingworth chess games at 365Chess.com - Ozbase - Australian Chess Games Archive