John-Paul Wallace
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John-Paul Wallace is a professional chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 player awarded the title of International Master in 1995 by FIDE (World Chess Federation).

He has represented Australia
Australia
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 in two Chess Olympiad
Chess Olympiad
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s (Moscow
Moscow
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, Russia
Russia
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 in 1994 and Yerevan
Yerevan
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, Armenia
Armenia
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 in 1996)

He holds the rec Meet The Masters, Chesslecture.com He won the Pratt Foundation Australian Open chess tournament in 2003 before traveling to Europe and is currently residing in London
London
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John-Paul works as a professional chess coach and is a contributor to various magazines and websites including Chesspublishing.com and Chesslecture.com. John-Paul is the resident games columnist for the Australian Chess Magazine.

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