The Australian Chess Championship 2016 will be held in the Fitzroy Town Hall, Melbourne, from the 2nd of January to the 12th of January.
The event is a 11 round swiss tournament with a $14000 prize fund. The tournament presence will be 34 players – 2 GMs and 14 IMs will be part of the chess spectacle.
Tournaments in addition to the main event are a Reserves Championship and a Blitz Tournament, which will be played alongside the main event.
The 2014 Australian Champion IM Max Illingworth (2553), GM Darryl Johansen (2464) and GM Vasily Papin (2536) are some of the top seeded players in the main event.
GM David Smerdon (2533) is currently the highest rated player in the blitz tournament, while Michael Kethro is the highest rated player in the Reserves tournament.
Live games will be daily on Chessdom.com with computer analysis by the Top Chess Engine Championship winners Komodo, Stockfish, and Houdini
List of players in the Australian Championship
| Max | Illingworth | IM | 2553 | |
| Vasily | Papin | GM | 2536 | |
| Kanan | Izzat | IM | 2491 | |
| Anton | Smirnov | IM | 2489 | |
| Bobby | Cheng | IM | 2466 | |
| Darryl | Johansen | GM | 2464 | |
| James | Morris | IM | 2449 | |
| Brodie | McClymont | IM | 2427 | |
| Junta | Ikeda | IM | 2420 | |
| Justin | Tan | IM | 2415 | |
| Stephen | Solomon | IM | 2413 | |
| Mark | Chapman | IM | 2373 | |
| Christopher | Wallis | FM | 2372 | |
| Greg | Canfell | FM | 2363 | |
| Guy | West | IM | 2362 | |
| Zuhao (Luke) | Li | FM | 2359 | |
| Andrew | Brown | IM | 2351 | |
| Sam | Chow | FM | 2345 | |
| Karl | Zelesco | FM | 2341 | |
| Eugene | Schon | FM | 2315 | |
| Yita | Choong | 2298 | ||
| Ari | Dale | IM | 2291 | |
| Mirko | Rujevic | IM | 2271 | |
| Dusan | Stojic | FM | 2261 | |
| Eddy | Levi | FM | 2247 | |
| Jack | Puccini | FM | 2247 | |
| Gene | Nakauchi | FM | 2244 | |
| William | Jordan | FM | 2231 | |
| Zachary | Loh | FM | 2231 | |
| Leonid | Sandler | IM | 2222 | |
| Domagoj | Dragicevic | FM | 2206 | |
| Carl | Gorka | 2196 | ||
| Jason | Hu | CM | 2194 | |
| John | Nemeth | 2170 | ||
| Douglas | Hamilton | FM | 2036 |
