Ehsan Ghaem Maghami

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Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, August 2010
Association IranIran Iran
Born August 11, 1982
title International Master (2000)
Grand Master (2001)
Current  Elo rating 2561 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2633 (May 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Ehsan Ghaem Maghami ( Persian احسان قائم مقامی; * August 11, 1982 ) is an Iranian chess player and the first Iranian chess grandmaster .

Life

Ghaem Maghami won or occupied top places in several tournaments: 2nd place at the Pripis Memorial (2000), 2nd place at the zone tournament of Zone 3.1a in Tehran (2001), 2nd place at the 11th Iran championship in Tehran (2001) , 1st place at the Saipa Cup in Tehran (2003), 1st place at the tournament on the island of Kisch (2003), 2nd place at the Saipa Cup in Tehran (2004), 1st place at the zone 3.1 tournament in Beirut (2004 ), 3rd place at the tournament in Kisch (2005) and twice 1st place at the ZMD Open in Dresden (2007, 2008). He has won the Iranian individual championship nine times so far: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011. For the Iranian national team he has always played on the first board at the Chess Olympiads since 2000 , as well as at the 2001 World Team Championship all Asian team championships since 1999, at the chess competitions of the Asian Games in 2006 and 2010 and in the chess competitions of the Indoor Asian Games in 2007 and 2009.

In 2009 he played a match against Anatoly Karpov in Tehran over four tournament games (+1 = 2 −1), four quick games (+2, -2) and twelve blitz games (+5 = 3 −4). In this match, the rule was that every game had to be played out, so neither surrender nor draw offers were allowed. In February 2011 he played in Tehran against 604 opponents in 25 hours (+580, = 16, -8) and thus set a record in simultaneous chess . In October 2011 he was excluded after the 4th round of the Corsica Open in Ajaccio because he had refused to play against the Israeli player Ehud Shachar. In January 2016 he refused to play against the Israeli chess player Yuliya Naiditsch at the Basel Chess Festival .

Ghaem Maghami received the title of International Master in 2000 , and has held the title of Grand Master since 2001. He was the first Iranian chess player to be awarded the grandmaster title. In the German Chess League he has been playing for Hamburger SK since 2009 , in the Swiss Chess League he played for champions SC Gonzen in the 2015/16 season . Ehsan Ghaem Maghami is married to the International Master (WIM) Shayesteh Ghader Pour .

Web links

Commons : Ehsan Ghaem Maghami  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ChessBase Megabase 2010
  2. ↑ Ehsan Ghaem Maghami's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Ehsan Ghaem Maghami's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Ehsan Ghaem Maghami's results at Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Ehsan Ghaem Maghami's results at the Asian Games ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ Ehsan Ghaem Maghami's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
  7. ^ Tournament website ( Memento of May 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 15, 2011
  8. ↑ New world record for 604-board simul by Iranian GM Maghami , Chessbase.com, February 14, 2011
  9. ↑ Iranian GM refuses to play Israeli opponent, gets excluded from Corsican Circuit , Chessvibes.com, October 25, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Ghaem Maghami, Ehsan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES احسان قائم مقامی (Persian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1982