Max Fuller

About

Maxwell Leonard Fuller (28 January 1945 – 27 August 2013) was an Australian chess FIDE Master (FM). He shared first in the 1972 Australian Chess Championship, and represented Australia in nine Chess Olympiads between 1964 and 1990.

Fuller won the Australian Junior Chess Championship in 1963, and represented Australia at the World Junior Chess Championship in Vrnjačka Banja, Yugoslavia later that year. He finished equal first with Trevor Hay in the 1972 Australian Chess Championship in Melbourne. The play-off match between them was tied 5-5, so they were declared joint champions, a relatively rare occurrence.
In the 1972 Asian Zonal Championship in Hong Kong, he finished equal second with Kan and Tan, behind Eugenio Torre. After the play-off match with Tan and Kan was also tied, the second qualifying place into the Interzonal was decided by a random drawing of lots. If Fuller had chosen the right envelope, he would have automatically gained the IM title and the Interzonal place, but Tan Lian Ann chose the correct envelope and went on to the 1973 Interzonal in Petrópolis, Brazil.
In the 1974 Asian Team Chess Championship in Penang, Fuller played on board one for Australia…