Slim Bouaziz (born 16 April 1950) is a
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chess
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Grandmaster (1993).
Chess career
From the late 1960s to the early 2000s, Slim Bouaziz was the leading African chess players. He won twice in
Arab Chess Championships (1986, 1991).
Slim Bouaziz is the only African chess to player to participate in 5 Interzonal Tournaments of the World Chess Championships:
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In 1967 in
Sousse
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ranked 22nd place;
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In 1979 in
Riga
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ranked 15th place;
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In 1982 in
Las Palmas
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ranked 12th place;
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In 1985 in Tunis withdrew after six rounds, having drawn only one game and lost the rest;
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In 1987 in
Szirak ranked 17th place.
In 1999, in
Las Vegas Strip
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he participated in
FIDE World Chess Championship 1999
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Format
The format was ...
, where in first round lost
Vasilios Kotronias
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.
Slim Bouaziz was participant in many international chess tournaments where he won or shared first places in
Belgrade
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(1977) and
Bucharest
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(1992).
Slim Bouaziz represented the Tunisian team in major team chess tournaments:
* in
Chess Olympiad
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participated 16 times (1966-1970, 1974, 1978–1986, 1990–1996, 2000, 2004–2006);
* in
World Team Chess Championship
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participated in 1989;
* in World Student Chess Championship participated 3 times (1963, 1965–1966).
Bouaziz was awarded the FIDE
International Master
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(IM) title in 1975 and became a
Grandmaster (GM) in 1993. He was the first African chess player to receive Grandmaster title. In 2014, Bouaziz also became a
FIDE International Organizer.
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1950 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Tunisian chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Tunis
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