Ahmed Adly
Encyclopedia
Ahmed Adly (born February, 1987) is a chess
Grandmaster from Cairo
, Egypt
. In 2005, he won the African Chess Championship
, and in 2007 he won the World Junior Chess Championship
. He tied for 1st-5th with Gabriel Sargissian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
, Igor-Alexandre Nataf and Pendyala Harikrishna
in the Reykjavik
Open 2006. In 2008 he tied for 1st-3rd with Zigurds Lanka
and Dorian Rogozenko
at Hamburg
.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Grandmaster from Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
, Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. In 2005, he won the African Chess Championship
African Chess Championship
The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title....
, and in 2007 he won the World Junior Chess Championship
World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament organized by the World Chess Federation ....
. He tied for 1st-5th with Gabriel Sargissian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Shakhriyar Hamid oglu Mammadyarov , also known for his Shah nickname, is a chess Grandmaster. On the September 2010 FIDE rating list he was ranked number nine in the world with an Elo rating of 2756....
, Igor-Alexandre Nataf and Pendyala Harikrishna
Pendyala Harikrishna
Pentala Harikrishna is a chess player from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Harikrishna became the youngest grandmaster from India in 2001. He is No. 3 in India after Viswanathan Anand & Krishnan Sasikiran, No. 9 in Asia & ranked 71st in the world as per FIDE rating as on November 2011.In November...
in the Reykjavik
Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the capital and largest city in Iceland.Its latitude at 64°08' N makes it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói Bay...
Open 2006. In 2008 he tied for 1st-3rd with Zigurds Lanka
Zigurds Lanka
Zigurds Lanka is a Latvian chess player who holds the title of Grandmaster .Zigurds Lanka started to play chess when he was 6 years old. In 1987 he achieved the International Master title. Zigurds Lanka won the Latvian Chess Championship in 1993. His Elo rating peaks - 2575 in 1997 and 2531 in 2005...
and Dorian Rogozenko
Dorian Rogozenko
Dorian Rogozenko is a Romanian chess grandmaster and Moldavian champion in 1994.He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, but was knocked out in the first round by Mikhail Gurevich. He played for Moldova in the Chess Olympiads of 1994, 1996 and 1998 and for Romania in the 2000 Chess...
at Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
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