Abdelrahman Hesham (born 1992) is an Egyptian
chess
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
player. He was awarded the title
Grandmaster by
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...
in 2016.
Career
Hesham won the 2016
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.
The 2007 championship was the FIDE Zone 4 qualifier for the Chess World Cup 2007, th ...
, earning him the title of
Grandmaster.
He has also represented Egypt in two
Chess Olympiads. In
2016
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, he played on board 5, ending on 5.5/9. In
2018
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, he played on board 4, finishing on 4.5/9.
References
External links
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Abdelrahman Heshamgames at 365Chess.com
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1992 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Egyptian chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
Place of birth missing (living people)
Competitors at the 2019 African Games
African Games medalists in chess
African Games gold medalists for Egypt
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