Shrook Wafa (born 13 May 1997) is an Egyptian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster. She won the Women's

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 ...

in 2013. Thanks to this achievement she earned the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM) and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015. She has won the Women's

a further three times: 2014, 2016 and 2019.African Individual Chess Championships 2014 Women
Chess-Results In the

Women's World Chess Championship 2015 The Women's World Chess Championship was held from 16 March to 7 April 2015 in Sochi, Russia. It was a 64-player knockout tournament. It was originally scheduled from 11 to 31 October 2014 but problems in finding a sponsor and host city eventually ...

she was knocked out in the first round by the second seed Ju Wenjun. Her sister Shahenda Wafa also is a Woman Grandmaster.

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* * 1997 births Living people Egyptian female chess players Chess woman grandmasters African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games medalists in chess Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 2019 African Games 21st-century Egyptian women {{Egypt-chess-bio-stub