Ahmed Adly

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Ahmed Adly at the
2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden
Association EgyptEgypt Egypt
Born February 19, 1987
Cairo
title International Master (2001)
Grand Master (2004)
Current  Elo rating 2615 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2643 (March 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ahmed Adly ( Arabic أحمد عدلي; * February 19, 1987 in Cairo ) is an Egyptian grandmaster in chess .

Single successes

Ahmed Adly won in 2007 in the Armenian capital Yerevan the World Championship under 20 (U20). With 10 points from 13 games, he won the 21st place on the seeding list among 80 participants, half a point ahead of Russian Ivan Popov . None of his games in this tournament ended in a draw. Adly is the first African ever to win this title.

As early as 2001, at the age of 14, he won the African U20 championships, thereby earning the title of International Master and fulfilling his first grandmaster standard. In 2003 and 2004 he achieved the two missing norms for the title, making him the first grandmaster in Egypt and the youngest in Africa to date. In 2004 he also finished third at the U18 World Championships in Heraklion . In addition to winning the Africa Championship in Lusaka in 2005 , he shared first place at the prestigious Open in Reykjavík in 2006 with players like Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Gabriel Sarkissjan , defeating young Norwegian star Magnus Carlsen , among others . In May 2007 he won the Batelco International Open in Bahrain . At the African continental championship in September 2007 in Windhoek , he finished fifth and qualified for the next World Cup. In 2008 he finished second behind Dorian Rogozenco at the open championship in Hamburg . In 2009 he was Egyptian individual champion in Cairo .

Ahmed Adly was trained from the age of nine by the technical director of the Egyptian Chess Federation, Hassan Khaled. Igor Rausis trained him in 2001 and Edvīns Ķeņģis in 2005 .

Team chess

National team

For the Egyptian national team Adly played at the Chess Olympiads 2006 in Turin (result: +4 = 3 −3), 2008 in Dresden (result: +3 = 3 −5) and 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk (result: +5 = 2 - 3) on the first board, 2012 in Istanbul (result: +6 = 2 −1) on the second and 2014 in Tromsø (result: +7 = 1 −1) on the fourth board. He also took part with the Egyptian team in the World Team Championships in 2010 in Bursa , in 2011 in Ningbo and in 2015 in Zaghkadzor and won the chess competitions at the Africa Games in Abuja in 2003 , in Algiers in 2007 and in Maputo in 2011 as well as the chess competitions in the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo in 2007 and 2011 in Doha .

Club chess

With the club Sharkia Dokhan he was Egyptian team champion in the 2006/2007 season. Adly won the Arab Club Championship seven times (2003 and 2005 to 2009 with Sharkia, 2010 with El-Dakhlia). In the seasons 2008/09 and 2009/10 Ahmed Adly was registered with Hamburger SK in the German Chess League, but he was only used twice in the first season and not at all in the second.

Web links

Commons : Ahmed Adly  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chess-Results.com
  2. ↑ Final score at the Hamburg Chess Association
  3. ↑ Ahmed Adly's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Ahmed Adly's results at the World Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Ahmed Adly's results at the Pan-African Games on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Ahmed Adly's results at the Pan-Arab Games on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Ahmed Adly's results at Arab club championships on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Adly, Ahmed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES أحمد عدلي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian grandmaster in chess
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo