Imad Hakki

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Imad Hakki ( Arabic عماد حقي; * January 1, 1957 ) is a Syrian chess player .

Life

Imad Hakki is the son of the writer Badia Hakki . He played his first chess tournaments in the Soviet cultural center in the early 1970s. He then played first for the army club.

successes

Individual championships

In 1999 he won the Arab individual championship in Aden . At the 1999 World Cup in Las Vegas he was drawn in the first round given to Hicham Hamdouchi , but, like the Iranian Amir Bagheri , could not compete due to visa problems. At the 2000 World Cup, he was eliminated in the first round with 0.5: 1.5 against Utut Adianto . He was able to win the Syrian individual championship several times, for example in Aleppo in 2009 .

National team

At the Asian team championship in 1986 in Dubai he scored 6 points from 8 games behind Viswanathan Anand and Ricardo de Guzman, the third best result of all players on the fourth board.

For the Syrian national team, he played nine chess Olympiads between the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires and the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden with a positive overall result of 61.5 points from 109 games (+41 = 41 −27). He had the best team result at the 1980 Chess Olympiad in Valletta with 30th place, the best individual result at the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul with 14th place on the top board.

At the 2007 Pan-Arab Games in Cairo , Syria finished second with Imad Hakki on the third board, receiving an individual gold medal for his result of 5.5 out of 6.

Club chess

At the Asian city championships he played for Damascus in 2000 and 2007, both on the top board . In 2000 in Beirut , Imad Hakki received an individual silver medal for his score of 7.5 points from 9 games. 2007 in Tehran , he won among others against for Tagaytay playing Grandmaster Mark Paragua .

He played club chess in Syria for Al-Mohafza . With his club he won the Arab team championship in Damascus in 2003 on the second board behind Yevgeny Gleiserow . In 2002 in Doha , the team was second behind Doha City .

Title and rating

He has held the title of International Master since 1987 . His Elo rating is 2354 (as of August 2020). This would lead him to the top of the Syrian Elo ranking, but he is listed as inactive as he has not played an Elo-rated game since the Syrian Team Championship in 2011. His highest rating was 2471 from April to September 2005. This is the highest rating that a Syrian has ever achieved.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article about Imad Hakki from December 18, 2015 on alsulta-alrabi3a.com (Arabic)
  2. ↑ Page on the World Chess Championship 2000 at mark-weeks.com (English)
  3. ↑ Individual medals at the Asian team championship 1986 on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ The Chess Olympiads Imad Hakki on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Imad Hakki's Asian City Championships at olimpbase.org (English)
  6. ↑ The Arab team championships Imad Hakkis on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hakki, Imad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1957