Hasan Abbasifar (born 1972) is an international

Chess Grandmaster Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally it h ...

titled in 2013. He was born in

Shiraz Shiraz (; fa, شیراز, Širâz ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, Fars Province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As o ...

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. He played the game from 1994 to 2019. Hasan is a member of the national chess team, Islamic Republic of Iran.

Awards

Hassan Abbassifar is the first international grandmaster of Shiraz and the province of Fars, where he won the 1990 and 1991 chess championship. In 1994, he managed to reach the final of the national championship, which allowed him to qualify as a member of the Iranian national chess team at the World Olympics in Russia. In 1994-95, he was placed second in the national semi-rapid championship. During the 1999-2000 season, he beat the players in the Iranian league to win with a difference of 1.5 points over his runner-up. The same year, he participated in the student world championship in the Netherlands and won the gold medal for his personal performance on his chess board while playing for the national team at the Asian games in China . In 2001, he was again a finalist in the Iranian championship which allowed him to be selected for the Olympiad . Once again crowned student chess champion, he participates in the world student championship in

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Other chess activities

Hassan Abbassifar coaches the Iranian national youth team in international tournaments in

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and

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and at the

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in Singapore . He headed the chess federation of the province of Fars for eight years, the province of which he created the first chess school. Hassan Abbassifar is also the author of several books on chess.

Tournaments

* Karoun Masters Cup 2019 * 13th Dubai Open * Aeroflot Open B * Fajr op 14th

References

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