Morteza Mahjoob (born March 20, 1980) is an Iranian

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 won

Iranian Chess Championship The Iranian Chess Championship is the yearly national chess championship of Iran. Below is the gallery of champions, notice the gap between 1980 and 1990 (1359 and 1369 according to the Iranian calendar), when chess was forbidden in Iran. There is a ...

in 2005 and 2008. In 2005 his

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was 2442 and in 2016 his rating was 2354. In 2007 he became grandmaster. In September 2005 he won

with the score 9.5 points out of 11. Mahjoob previously held the world record for

simultaneous exhibition A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition (commonly chess or Go) in which one player (typically of high rank, such as a grandmaster or dan-level player) plays multiple games at a time with a number of other pl ...

, which he set on August 13, 2009. He walked 18 hours and won 397 of the games, 90 draws and 13 loses. His record was broken on October 21, 2010 by GM

Alik Gershon Alik Gershon (born 3 June 1980, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is an Israeli chess grandmaster. On 21 October 2010 he set the Guinness World Record for simultaneous games after playing 523 opponents in Tel Aviv. After 18 hours and 30 minutes, he wo ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahjoub, Morteza 1980 births Chess grandmasters Iranian chess players Living people Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Iran