Thread: The history of chess in Australia.

Though women’s chess in Australia is still waiting for its own tipping point, there are promising signs. In 2017, a Queensland woman, Heather Richards, achieved the first victory by an Australian female over a grandmaster since the turn of the century (unfortunately, the victim was one of us - David Smerdon).
Hopefully, it is only a matter of time before we see the emergence of our own Australian Beth Harmon or our own Queen of Queensland.


The Queens(land) gambit: a brief history of chess in Australia (theconversation.com)

The MV Anderson chess collection.

Chess | State Library Victoria (slv.vic.gov.au)