Slim Bouaziz

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Bouaziz, Slim 1979 Dortmund.JPG
Slim Bouaziz, Dortmund 1979
Association TunisiaTunisia Tunisia
Born April 16, 1950
Tunis
title International Master (1975)
Grand Master (1993)
Current  Elo rating 2260 (April 2020)
Best Elo rating 2515 (July 1993 to July 1994)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Slim Bouaziz ( Arabic سليم بوعزيز; * April 16, 1950 in Tunis ) is a Tunisian chess grandmaster and trainer.

Life

Bouaziz, who was named the first African chess grandmaster in 1993 , represented Tunisia as a 13-year-old at the Student Olympiad in Budva in 1963. In 1965 he took part in the Youth World Cup (U20) in Barcelona . In 1966 he played for the first time for the national team of his home country at the Chess Olympiad in Havana .

He qualified five times for the interzonal tournament through the African zone tournament . These include Sousse 1967 (last of 23 participants - Bobby Fischer abandoned the tournament prematurely), Riga 1979 (shared 14th place with Edmar Mednis and Herman van Riemsdijk ), 1982 in Las Palmas (shared 11th-13th place with Lars Karlsson and Jaime Sunye Neto ), 1985 in Tunis (canceled after 6 laps) and 1987 in Szirák (penultimate, 17th place).

Bouaziz took part in a total of sixteen Chess Olympiads for Tunisia between 1966 and 2006, and he also came second in the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Tripoli with Tunisia. In 1989 he represented Africa in a continental selection at the World Team Championship in Lucerne . He had his most successful sporting period in the 1970s and 1980s: in 1978 he had a good tied fourth place at the Lloyds Bank Open in London , in 1977 he tied for first place in Belgrade , and in 1978 tied for 7th – 9th. at the Dortmund Schachtagen (together with Otto Borik and Harry Schüssler ), in 1981 he won in Tripoli, in 1992 he won in Bucharest . He won the Arab Championship twice: 1986 in Tunis and 1991 in Dubai .

In the 1980s, an international champion since 1975, he was invited to tournaments in Germany several times: for example, in 1982 he took part in a grandmaster tournament recorded for television in Hamburg , which was won by the then world champion Anatoli Karpov . Bouaziz, the only international champion in this world-class tournament, played in the preliminary round, which he could not get beyond, a game against Karpow, also against Yasser Seirawan and twice against John Nunn . He was also invited to the International German Championship in Hanover in 1983 , where he shared last place with the Germans Wolfram Hartmann and Manfred Glienke .

Bouaziz has been a FIDE chess trainer since 2005.

Web links

Commons : Slim Bouaziz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Slim Bouaziz 'results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Report on the Counter Olympiad 1976 on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Slim Bouaziz 'results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ Władysław Litmanowicz & Jerzy Giżycki: Szachy od A do Z , Volume 1, Warsaw 1986, p. 111
personal data
SURNAME Bouaziz, Slim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES سليم بوعزيز (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tunisian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Tunis