Bassem Amin (; born 9 September 1988) is an Egyptian

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player and medical doctor. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2006. Amin is the highest rated Egyptian and African player and the only medical doctor to have a FIDE peak rating of 2700+. Amin is also a six-time and the current African chess champion.

Career

Early on in his chess career, Amin was the Arab Youth Chess Champion once in the U10 division, once in the U12 division, and twice in the U14 division. He took 4th place in the 2004 World Youth Chess Championship U-16 in Greece. Soon after, he won the 2005 African Junior Chess Championship, qualifying him to participate in the 2005 World Junior Chess Championship. He won his first Arab Chess Championship title at the 2005 Arab Chess Championship, simultaneously acquiring his first grandmaster norm. In the same year, he won the African championship and took part in

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(U18), finishing third. Arab Champion Under 20 3 times : (Jordan) 2005 ( His 2nd GM norm ), July 2006 and August 2007 African Under-20 Champion, Botswana 2005 ( 3rd GM norm ) Bronze Medalist In World Youth Under 18 (Georgia) 2006 Arab men Champion (UAE) 2006 In 2007, he tied for first with Ashot Anastasian in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, with a performance rating of 2747. Bronze Medalist In World Juniors (Turkey) 2008 African Chess Champion Libya 2009 He took part in the

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and was knocked out by Vladimir Malakhov in the first round. African Chess Champion Tunis 2013 Co-Winner of Reykjavik Open 2013 Arab Men Champion UAE 2013 Mediterranean Chess Champion Greece 2014 Scored 8.5 points out of 11 on Board 1 at the 41st World Chess Olympiad, leading the Egyptian National Chess Team to achieve the best result in Egyptian Chess history and win a Gold Medal in Category B African Chess Champion Cairo 2015

Personal life

Amin graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the

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in 2012. He is one of seven medical doctors who are also chess grandmasters (along with Alex Scherzer,

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, Dan Zoler,

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and Muhammed Batuhan Daştan), the highest rated medical doctor and grandmaster, and the only medical doctor with a peak FIDE rating of 2700+.

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* * * * * 1988 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 21st-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-chess-bio-stub