Career
He was awarded the IM title in 1975 after finishing 3rd in the 1975 Asian Zonal Chess Championship held in Melbourne. Jamieson represented Australia in five Chess Olympiads in Nice 1974, Haifa 1976, Buenos Aires 1978, Malta 1980 and Lucerne 1982. Jamieson"s best performance was at the 25th Chess Olympiad in Lucerne in 1982, where he scored 8.5/11 (77%), winning a bronze medal for equal 3rd best performance on second board, together with Garry Kasparov.
This was the first General Motors norm by an Australian.
In June 1975 Jamieson established the Australian simultaneous chess record, playing 145 opponents at the same time with opponents including two future Grandmasters. This record has not been broken since.
In the December 2012 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2444. He has played no FIDE-rated games since June 2001.
Jamieson now works as a coach at Chess Kids in Australia and occasionally writes for Australian Chess publications.
Robert Murray Jamieson vs Wolfgang Unzicker, Haifa 1976, Spanish Game: Exchange, (C69), 1-0
Juan Manuel Bellon Lopez vs Robert Murray Jamieson, Hoogovens-B 1977, Four Knights Game, Belgrade Gambit (C47), 1/2-1/2.