Career
Garbett has represented New Zealand in six Chess Olympiads between 1974 and 2012. His best result was in 1990 when he scored 5/11 on board 1. Garbett competed in the Asian Zonal Chess Championship in Melbourne 1975 and Kuala Lumpur 1990.
He competed in the Oceania Chess Championship in 2000, 2005, 2009 and 2012.
Garbett gained his International Master title when he scored 6.5/9, and finished =2nd with Darryl Johansen, George Xie and Jonathan Humphrey, in the 2005 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship in Auckland. Paul Anthony Garbett vs Vasilios Kotronias, Olympiad Novi Sad (1990), Sicilian Defense: Richter-Rauzer Variation, (B63), 1-0.