Samy Shoker


Samy Shoker, Bogotá 2011
Association	France France (until 2009) Egypt (since 2009) Egypt
Born	August 1, 1987 Asnières-sur-Seine
title	International Master (2006) Grand Master (2014)
Current Elo rating	2504 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2517 (January to May 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Samy Shoker (born August 1, 1987 in Asnières-sur-Seine ) is an Egyptian chess player . Previously playing for the French Chess Federation , he has been registered for Egypt since April 2009.

successes

In April 2004 he won the French cadet championship (U16) in Reims with 8 points from 9 games and one point ahead. In October of the same year he achieved his first standard for achieving the title of International Master in his third place at the 4th championship tournament in Saint-Lô , which was won by the Bulgarian Grand Master Dejan Boschkow . At the A-Open des Festival de Jeux in Cannes in February 2006 , he achieved his second IM norm, the third at the Marseille Duchamps championship in October 2006 in Marseille (the international champion Nicolas Brunner won this tournament). At the 3rd Open Gratuit in January 2008 in Évry , which was won by Serhiy Fedorschuk , Samy Shoker reached a third place. In July 2008 he won the International Open in Condom . He won the 16th International Open Vienna Chess Championship , which was held in the large ballroom of the Vienna City Hall , in August 2009 with an Elo rating of 2708.

The title of International Master was applied for for him in October 2006, the title was awarded to him on the 1st quarter Presidential Board in Antalya in January 2007. Although his published Elo rating was still below the minimum limit of 2400 points (he only exceeded this threshold in April 2009), FIDE's title regulations consider it sufficient if this figure is reached at some point in the course of a tournament. Samy Shoker had an Elo rating of 2398 in October 2006, at the first chronologically rated tournament in January 2007, the Young Masters Open General in Lausanne , after two wins in the first two rounds, he had an Elo rating of 2400. He has been a grandmaster since August 2014. He achieved the standards for this at the 2011 World Team Championship in Ningbo , in which Egypt finished last, but Shoker won against Oleksandr Areschtschenko and Ş undhriyar Məmmədyarov , in September 2013 at the Mohamed Slama Memorial in Monastir and in May 2014 with over-fulfillment at the 32nd Open in Metz .

In February 2015, Samy Shoker is in fifth place in the Egyptian Elo ranking.

Team chess

National team

Samy Shoker took part with the Egyptian team in the Chess Olympiads 2010 in Khanty-Mansiysk and 2014 in Tromsø . With the Egyptian selection he won the 2011 African Games chess competition and took part in the 2011, 2013 and 2015 World Team Championships.

Club chess

Until 2008 he only played club chess in France and since then also in Egypt. In his first season there he was Egyptian team champion in 2008/09 on the third board, playing with El Dakhlia . He was able to defend the title in 2009/10, this time playing behind Bassem Amin on board 2. He won the Arabian Cities 2009 Club Championship , which was held in Cairo , as well as the Arab Club Championship later that year in Tunis . In the top French division (until 2010 Top 16 , since then Top 12 ) Shoker played in the 2007/08 season for CE de Bois-Colombes , in the 2008/09 season for Grasse Echecs , in the 2010/11 season for Lutèce Echecs and since the 2011/12 season for Mulhouse Philidor . For the 2013/14 season he returned to Bois-Colombes .