Mohamed Tissir (born 1976) is a Moroccan

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 ...

player.

Chess career

He won the

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 1999, the Moroccan Chess Championship in 1996, 1999 and 2005, and has represented his country in a number of

Chess Olympiad The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...

s. He has also won a gold medal at the 36th Chess Olympiad of Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 2004 and also won the Arab games held in Jordan in 1999. He played in the

Chess World Cup 2000 The FIDE World Cup 2000 was a 24-player Category XVI chess tournament played between 1 September and 13 September 2000 in Shenyang, China. The tournament was organized by FIDE, hosted by the Chinese Chess Association, and billed as the First Ches ...

, where he finished at the bottom of Group D, and the

FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 The FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 was held at the Almahary Hotel in Tripoli, Libya, from June 18 to July 13, 2004. It was won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who beat Michael Adams in the final by a score of 4½–3½. He won about US$100,000 and ...

, where he was defeated by

Alexey Dreev Alexey Sergeyevich Dreev (, also transliterated as Aleksey or Alexei; born 30 January 1969) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 1989. Career While being a promising young chess talent, he was for a period ...

in the first round. He is also a chess coach.

References

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in chess.com 1976 births Living people Moroccan chess players Competitors at the 2019 African Games African Games competitors for Morocco {{morocco-sport-bio-stub