Erald Dervishi (born 10 November 1979) is an Albanian
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. He is a two-time
Albanian Chess Champion.
Chess career
Born in 1979, Dervishi won the
Albanian Chess Championship The Albanian Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Albania. The first tournament took place in 1933. A separate championship for women has been held since 1977.
Winners
:
Open champions by number of titles
Wo ...
in 1996 and 1997. He earned his grandmaster title in 1998, becoming the first Albanian to achieve the title. He was awarded the
Grand Master of Work Order by Albanian President
Bujar Nishani in May 2017. In 2017, he won the 5th Francophonie Championship with a score of 7.5/9.
He is the No. 1 ranked Albanian player as of July 2022.
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1979 births
Living people
Albanian chess players
Chess grandmasters
Sportspeople from Durrës
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