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Bassem Amin

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Egyptian chess grandmaster and medical doctor (born 1988)
Bassem Amin
Amin in 2023
CountryEgypt
Born (1988年09月09日) 9 September 1988 (age 36)
Tanta, Egypt[1]
TitleGrandmaster (2006)
FIDE rating 2654 (February 2025)
Peak rating 2712 (January 2019)
RankingNo. 73 (February 2025)
Peak rankingNo. 33 (June 2019)

Bassem Amin (Arabic: باسم أمين; born 9 September 1988) is an Egyptian chess grandmaster and medical doctor. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2006. Amin is the highest rated Egyptian and African player and the only medical doctor to have a FIDE peak rating of 2700+. Amin has also won the African chess championship seven times, doing so in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2024.[2] [3] [4]

Career

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Early on in his chess career, Amin was the Arab Youth Chess Champion once in the U10 division, once in the U12 division, and twice in the U14 division. He took 4th place in the 2004 World Youth Chess Championship U-16 in Greece. Soon after, he won the 2005 African Junior Chess Championship, qualifying him to participate in the 2005 World Junior Chess Championship.

He won his first Arab Chess Championship title at the 2005 Arab Chess Championship, simultaneously acquiring his first grandmaster norm. In the same year, he won the African championship and took part in World Youth Chess Championship (U18), finishing third.

Arab Champion Under 20 3 times : (Jordan) 2005 ( His 2nd GM norm ), July 2006 and August 2007

African Under-20 Champion, Botswana 2005 ( 3rd GM norm )

Bronze Medalist In World Youth Under 18 (Georgia) 2006

Arab men Champion (UAE) 2006

In 2007, he tied for first with Ashot Anastasian in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, with a performance rating of 2747.[5]

Bronze Medalist In World Juniors (Turkey) 2008

He took part in the Chess World Cup 2009 and was knocked out by Vladimir Malakhov in the first round.[6]

Co-Winner of Reykjavik Open 2013[7]

Arab Men Champion UAE 2013

Mediterranean Chess Champion Greece 2014[8]

Scored 8.5 points out of 11 on Board 1 at the 41st World Chess Olympiad, leading the Egyptian National Chess Team to achieve the best result in Egyptian Chess history and win a gold medal in Category B

Personal life

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Amin graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the Tanta University in 2012. He is one of seven medical doctors who are also chess grandmasters (along with Alex Sherzer, Helmut Pfleger, Yona Kosashvili, Dan Zoler, Diego Valerga, and Muhammed Batuhan Daştan),[citation needed ] the highest rated medical doctor and grandmaster, and the only medical doctor to have achieved a FIDE rating of 2700+.

References

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  1. ^ "THERE IS A "SURGEON" ON THE CHESSBOARD!". May 29, 2018.
  2. ^ "2022 African Chess Championship: Bassem Amin and Shahenda Wafa claim titles". FIDE.com. Retrieved 2022年10月08日.
  3. ^ "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2024 African Individual Chess Championships (AICC) - Open Section". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2024年03月20日.
  4. ^ "2015 African Individual Chess Championships". africa-chess.org. Retrieved 2021年02月04日.
  5. ^ Crowther, Mark (2007年08月20日). "TWIC 667: Abudhabi Chess Festival". London Chess Center. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  6. ^ Crowther, Mark (2009年12月15日). "The Week in Chess: FIDE World Cup Mini-Site 2009". Chess.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 October 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  7. ^ "Round 10: A three-move draw and a three-way tie". 12 July 2023.
  8. ^ "GM Bassem Amin wins Mediterranean Chess Championship". Chess Daily News by Susan Polgar. 2014年09月12日. Archived from the original on 2021年02月08日. Retrieved 2021年02月04日.


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