Bachar Kouatly (Arabic: بشار قواتلي) (born 3 March 1958 in
Damascus
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) is a French
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 ...
grandmaster, journalist and activist. He is deputy president of
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 ...
.
He played three times for Lebanon in the
World Junior Chess Championship
The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 chess tournament (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition) organized by the World Chess Federation (FIDE).
The idea was the brainchild of William Ritso ...
(1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valletta 1980. He won a zonal tournament at Qatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982 Interzonal tournament in Toluca.
Kouatly won the French Chess Championship in 1979. He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).
He was awarded the titles of International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1989.
Bachar Kouatly is an editor of ''Europe Échecs'', a French–language chess magazine.
On December 10, 2016, he was elected President of the French Chess Federation.
Fédération Française des Echecs
In 2018, he was elected the deputy president of the International Chess Federation.
References
External links
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Bachar Koyatly
chess games at 365Chess.com
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1958 births
Living people
Chess Grandmasters
French chess players
Lebanese chess players
People from Damascus
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