Maxwell Leonard Fuller (born 28 January 1945 – 27 August 2013[2]) was an Australian chess FIDE Master (FM).

He finished equal first with Trevor Hay in the 1972 Australian Chess Championship in Melbourne.

[4] In the 1972 Asian Zonal Championship in Hong Kong, he finished equal second with Kan and Tan, behind Eugenio Torre.

[5] After the play-off match with Tan and Kan was also tied, the second qualifying place into the Interzonal was decided by a random drawing of lots.

[6][7] In the 1974 Asian Team Chess Championship in Penang, Fuller played on board one for Australia and scored 6/7, winning the individual gold medal.

[11] Fuller shared second place at the British Chess Championship in Coventry 1970, and in Morecambe 1975, as the events were also open to citizens of any Commonwealth country.

[12] Fuller represented Australia in nine Chess Olympiads between 1964 and 1990, usually on board 2 (six times), scoring 59 points from 106 games (+40 =38 -28).

In the 1970s, Fuller lived for some years in London, making him the first Australian to try to become chess professional.

In the late 1990s he scaled down his chess activity, partly due to health problems.