12/21/2018 – The Lidums Australian Young Masters tournament in Adelaide gives Australian talents an opportunity to gain experience against strong international players. This year the tournament took place from December 8 to December 14 but the international players proved to be too strong. Russian GM Vasily Papin won the GM tournament and GM Arvola Benjamin Notkevich won the IM tournament. | Photo Vasily Papin | Photo: Sabrina Koetsier

12/10/2018 – The Australian Young Masters has been growing since moving to Adelaide in 2011, and now includes both a GM and IM norm tournament, in addition to an open. IRENE SUKANDAR is there and sends this preview. After four rounds GM Vasily Papin leads the GM tournament with 3½ points. | Pictured: A kangaroo joyfully accepted IM Eric Rosen’s challenge for a match | Photo: Alistair Cameron

4/6/2018 – The strongest open tournament in Australia, the Doeberl Cup, has been held annually for 56 years in the capital city, Canberra. This year saw a new winner from Uzbekistan who represents the USA, GM Timur Gareyev, who edged out Australian IM James Morris on tiebreak score. The "Blindfold King" also swept the field by winning 10-0 in a blindfold exhibition prior to the tournament and had a perfect score in the 2018 Doeberl Cup Lightning. A successful trip to the land down under by Gareyev, but also for our reporter IM Irene Sukandar, who won the prize for the best woman. | Photo: O2C Doeberl Cup

10/5/2017 – The 2017 Asian Indoor Games recently wrapped up in the city of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. In the open section, Le Quang Liem was crowned champion with 5½/7 points. Lu Shanglei tied, but was behind on tiebreak score. China's Tan Zhongyi, the Women's World Champion, left with a final score of 6.0/7 points and was crowned champion of the women's section. | Photo: AIMAG on Facebook