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Simultaneous Exhibition with GM Darryl Johansen

GM Johansen (14 time Begonia Open Champion!) travelled up from Melbourne to play 32 local Ballarat club members in a simultaneous exhibition held on July 3rd at the BMI. He played with the white pieces and opened with either c4 or Nf3. Only three players managed to hold him to a draw, Club Champion Declan Smith, Minsadi Wansapura and her father Kanchana Wansapura (well done to the Wansapura family!)

GM Johansen explains how the exhibition will run

About GM Johansen: source Wikipedia

Darryl Keith Johansen (born 4 February 1959 in Melbourne) is an Australian chess grandmaster. He has won the Australian Chess Championship a record six times (in 1984, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2012), and represented Australia at fourteen Chess Olympiads (1980–96, 2000–04, 2008–10). He was awarded by FIDE the titles of International Master in 1982 and Grandmaster in 1995, the second from Australia, after Ian Rogers.