Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Illingworth ya lashe gasar GM ta Asabar ta farko a watan Satumbar 2011 a kan wasan kwaikwayo daga Levente Vajda da ya zira kwallaye 7/9. Godiya ga wannan sakamakon ya cimma matsayinsa na farko don taken Grandmaster. Ya ci 7/10 don Ostiraliya a gasar Olympics ta Chess ta 2012
a cikin Istanbul. Wadannan sakamakon sun sa ya sami lambar yabo ta International Master, wanda FIDE ta ba shi a taron da aka gudanar yayin gasar Olympics, kuma ta kafa shi a matsayin daya daga cikin 'yan wasan chess mafi karfi na Australia.