Bass amine

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Bassem Amin at the 2013 Chess World Cup.png
Bassem Amin at the 2013 World Chess Cup in Tromsø
Association EgyptEgypt Egypt
Born September 9, 1988
Tanta , Egypt
title International Master (2004)
Grand Master (2006)
Current  Elo rating 2686 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2712 (January 2019)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Bassem Amin ( Arabic باسم أمين; * September 9, 1988 in Tanta ) is an Egyptian grandmaster in chess .

Life

Amin studied medicine at the University of Tanta and graduated in 2012.

Chess successes

Single successes

Amin was Arab champion U10 and U12. He won the Arab U14 championship twice, most recently in August 2002 in Abu Dhabi . In January 2004 he became African U20 champion in Tripoli . At the U16 youth world championship in November 2004 in Heraklion , Greece , he finished fourth. In August 2005 he won the 1st Open in Asyut , in September 2005, at the age of seventeen , he won the Arab single adult championship in Dubai . In December 2005 he was able to win again the U20 African Championship, which this time took place in Gaborone . In July 2006 he won the Arab U20 Championship in Casablanca with a score of 7 out of 7 and three points ahead. At the U18 World Cup in October 2006 in Batumi , he was third. He was able to win the Arab U20 Championship again in August 2007 in Dubai, this time with a two point lead and a result of 8.5 out of 9. In the same month he won the 17th Abu Dhabi Masters . At the African continental championship in Windhoek in September 2007 , he finished fourth and qualified for the 2007 World Chess Cup , in which, however, he failed in the first round to Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu . At the Arab individual championship in December 2008 in Sharjah he was third. In 2009 he won the Africa championship in Tripoli. Amin was thus qualified for the 2009 World Chess Cup , in which he lost to Vladimir Malachov in the first round . In 2010 he again won the Asyut Open , which was held for the sixth time. He won the Africa Championship again in 2013 in Tunis . This qualified him for the 2013 World Chess Cup , where he lost to Eltac Səfərli in the first round with 2.5: 3.5. He also won the 2015 African Championships in Cairo , qualifying for the 2015 World Chess Cup , in which he lost to Dmitri Jakowenko in the second round . He became African champion for the third time in 2017 in Oran, Algeria . He was qualified for the 2017 World Chess Cup , but failed in the first round against Viktor Erdős . For the fourth time he was African champion in Livingstone, Zambia in 2018 .

He became FIDE champion in 1999, international champion in 2004 by winning the African U20 championship, he has been grandmaster since 2006. He achieved the standards for the GM title between September and December 2005. In the mid-2010s, Amin had the highest rating of all African chess players. In 2017 he was the first African to achieve 2700 Elo, which is seen as a condition for the informal status of " Super Grand Master ".

Team chess

National team

Bassem Amin participated with the Egyptian national team in the Chess Olympiads in 2008 , 2010 , 2012 and 2014 as well as in the team world championships in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2015.

With the Egyptian team he won the chess competition of the Africa Games in July 2007 in Algiers . There he received another gold medal for the best individual result (7.5 points from 8 games) on the second board. Amin won with the Egyptian team the chess competition of the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo in 2007 and in Doha in 2011, whereby in 2011 he achieved the best individual result on the second board with 8 points from 8 games.

Club chess

In Egypt he plays for the club El Sharkia Dokhan , with which he won the Arabian Club Championship in 2006 and 2013 and was Egyptian team champion in the 2006/07 season. In the 2007/08 season he played in Egypt for El Dakhila , with whom he won the 2010 African Club Cup in Cape Town . Bassem Amin was the first Egyptian national player to have professional status in Egyptian team chess. In the Icelandic team championship in 2008 he played for runner-up Hellir Reykjavík . At the Asian Club Cup 2008/09 in al-Ain he took part for the B-team of the Al-Ain Chess Club from the United Arab Emirates. In France he played from the 2013/14 season to 2018 for the CE de Bois-Colombes , with which he also took part in the European Club Cup 2014 in Bilbao . He has been playing for Clichy Echecs since 2019 . Bassem Amin has been playing in Sweden for the Stockholm club Wasa SK since the 2017/18 season , and in Germany for SC Viernheim since 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Bassem Amin  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2009 AFRICAN INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS (gen) Tripoli, LIBYA
  2. ↑ GM Bassem Amin of Egypt is the 2017 African Chess King . Article from July 24, 2017 in Kenya Chess Masala (English)
  3. ↑ Congratulations to GM Bassem Amin (2700.4), who becomes the first African player entering the 2700 club! Article from October 18, 2017 on hunonchess.com (English)
  4. ↑ Bassem Amin's results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Bassem Amin's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Bassem Amin's results at Pan-African Games on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ↑ Bassem Amin's results at Pan-Arab Games on olimpbase.org (English)
  8. ↑ Bassem Amins results at Arab club championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  9. ↑ Bassem Amin's results at African Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  10. ↑ Icelandic Team Championship 2008 on chess-results.com
  11. ↑ Bassem Amins results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Amin, Bassem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES باسم أمين (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Aunt