 He won the Australian Chess Championship four times in 1945, 1946/47, 1952/53, and 1958/59.He also won nine of his ten attempts at the New South Wales title (1940–41, 1943, 1944, 1945–46, 1953, 1955, 1958).He took 3rd in Karlovy Vary – Mariánské Lázně in 1948.