Richmond Phiri
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Richmond Phiri is a
Zambian Demographic features of the population of Zambia include population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and others aspects of the population. Zambia's youthful population cons ...
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International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
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Chess career

He has represented his country in a number of
chess olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in FIDE Onli ...
s, including
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and
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, and won the Zambian Chess Championship in 2008 and 2014. He played in the
Chess World Cup 2015 The Chess World Cup 2015 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 10 September to 5 October 2015. Sergey Karjakin won the competition on tie-breaks after a four-game final against Peter Svidler. Both fi ...
, being defeated by
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chess games at 365Chess.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Phiri, Richmond 1988 births Living people Zambian chess players Chess Olympiad competitors Chess International Masters