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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 also a gap between 1978 and 1980 (1356 and 1358) because of the Iran Revolution. Champions : Women : References * Results from The Week in Chess2002 an * Results from iranchess.com < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadi Momeni
Hadi or Hady () is an Arabic masculine given name and surname. Al-Hadi is one of the 99 names of God in Islam meaning ''guide'' (from the Arabic triconsonantal root ; also present in hidayah). Given name Hadi * Hadi Saei (born 1976), Iranian taekwondo athlete * Hadi Elazzi (born 1973), Turkish music producer and manager * Hadi Aghily (born 1980), Iranian footballer * Hadi Kazemi (born 1976), Iranian actor, narrator, sculptor, painter and photographer * Hadi Khorsandi (born 1943), Iranian poet, satirist and editor * Hadi Norouzi (1985–2015), Iranian footballer * Hadi Shakouri (born 1982), Iranian footballer * Hadi Teherani (born 1954), Iranian-German architect and designer living in Germany * Hadi al-Mahdi (c. 1967 – 2011), Iraqi journalist, radio talk show host, and assassination victim * Hadi Thayeb (1922–2014), Indonesian diplomat and politician * Hadi Ghaffari (born 1950), Iranian Hujjat al-Islam * Hadi Khamenei (born 1947), Iranian reformist politician, mojtah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bardiya Daneshvar
Bardiya Daneshvar (; born June 21, 2006) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. Chess career In June 2022, Daneshvar was the winner of the Iranian Men's Final Chess Championship, ahead of top seed Seyed Khalil Mousavi. In October 2022, Daneshvar represented Iran at the World Youth U16 Olympiad. He drew against Indian Pranav V, causing Iran and India to draw against each other. In June 2023, Daneshvar finished second in the Asian Continental Chess Championship, behind winner Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Daneshvar played in the Chess World Cup 2023, where he defeated Mahammad Muradli in the first round and then caused an upset by defeating super-grandmaster Alexander Grischuk (the tournament's 12th seed) in the second round. Daneshvar was then defeated by Salem Saleh in the third round. He pushed above 2600 in the FIDE rating list in May 2024 by winning the 7th Sharjah Masters despite being the 50th seed. He finished above much stronger players such as Arjun Erigaisi, Alexey Sarana and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parham Maghsoodloo
Parham Maghsoodloo (, born 12 August 2000) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016. Maghsoodloo is a three-time Iranian national champion and became the World Junior Chess Champion in 2018. Early life and chess career Maghsoodloo was born in 2000 in Gorgan. He played in the 2015 FIDE World Cup, where he was defeated in the first round by Wesley So. The following year, Maghsoodloo was awarded the titles of International Master and Grandmaster by FIDE, and represented his nation at the 42nd Chess Olympiad. He won the Iranian Chess Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2021. Also in 2018, he won the World Junior Chess Championship with a game in hand, finishing with a score of 9½/11, a point ahead of his nearest competitors. His was 2823. Maghsoodloo competed in the Tata Steel Challengers in January 2019, placing eighth with a score of 7/13 (+4–3=6). Selected Achievements • Iranian Chess Championship (2017, 2018, 2021) • Shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Firouzja
Alireza Firouzja (, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE Elo rating system, rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months. A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player. In 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. In 2022, Firouzja won the Grand Chess Tour 2022, Grand Chess Tour. He qualified for the Candidates Tournament in Candidates Tournament 2022, 2022 and Candidates Tournament 2024, 2024. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019 because of the country's Boycotts of Israel in sports, longstanding policy against competing with Israeli players. Firouzja played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asghar Golizadeh
Asghar () is a Persian name and may refer to: Given name * Asghar Ali (cricketer, born 1971), United Arab Emirates cricketer * Asghar Ali (cricketer, born 1924) (1924–1979), cricketer in India from 1943 to 1949, and in Pakistan from 1949 to 1957 * Ali Asghar Bazri, Iranian wrestler * Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian civil engineer, Islamic scholar, and religious figure * Asghar Farhadi, Iranian film director and screenwriter * Ali al-Asghar ibn Husayn, the youngest child of Husayn ibn Ali * Asghar Khan, Pakistani Air Force veteran fighter pilot and politician * Asghar Qadir, Pakistani mathematician and scientist in the field of cosmology * Asghar Afghan, Afghan cricketer Surname * Mohammad Asghar, Welsh politician * Mohammad Asghar (cricketer), Pakistani Cricketer * Natasha Asghar, Welsh politician * Sohail Asghar Sohail Asghar (15 June 1954 – 13 November 2021) was a Pakistani TV, film and theater actor. Career Sohail was born in Multan, Pakistan in 1954. After completing his e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morteza Mahjoub
Morteza Mahjoub or Morteza Mahjoob (, born March 20, 1980) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He won Iranian Chess Championship in 2005 and 2008. In 2005 his rating was 2442 and in 2016 his rating was 2354. In 2007 he became grandmaster. In September 2005 he won Iranian Chess Championship with the score 9.5 points out of 11. Mahjoob previously held the world record for simultaneous exhibition, 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, h .... External links * * * * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Mahjoub, Morteza 1980 births Chess Grandmasters Living people Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games 21st-century Irania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsen Ghorbani
Muhsin (also spelled Mohsen, Mohsin, Mehsin, or Muhsen, ) is a masculine Arabic given name. The first person known to have the name "Muhsin" was Muhsin ibn Ali, the son of Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatimah bint Muhammad. Islamic term In Arabic, it means "the one who ''beautifies'' or improves or enriches, particularly one's worship of or relationship with God, or one's actions or conduct toward others" and can mean helper, attractive, beneficent, benefactor, and charitable. It comes from the Arabic language triconsonantal root Ḥ-S-N (meaning "beauty, beautiful, benevolence, benevolent, excellence, excellent"), has two short vowels and a single . The word ''Muḥsin'' is the active participle of either '' ʾiḥsān'' "excellence of God's worship" (last of the three stages after '' ʾislām'' "submission to God's will" and '' ʾīmān'' "faith in God's word") or ''ʾaḥsān'', act of kindness or favor or good will for someone. Personal name Notable persons with that name includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elshan Moradi
Elshan Moradi Abadi (; born 22 May 1985) is an Iranian and American chess grandmaster. Biography When he was 16, he won the 2001 Iranian Chess Championship with a score of 10/11, ahead of Ehsan Ghaem Maghami. He was one of the members of Iran's national team in the first World Mind Sports Games held in Beijing (2008), in which the Iranian team surprisingly clinched third place ahead of Hungary, USA, and India. In 2009 he tied for 3rd–8th with Anton Filippov, Vadim Malakhatko, Merab Gagunashvili, Alexander Shabalov and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana Challenge Tournament in Colombo. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by Leinier Domínguez. He won the Final Four of collegiate chess with Texas Tech University in 2012. In 2015, he won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship for the first time with the Texas Tech University chess team. Moradi, in February 2016, became the second Iranian chess player to reach 2600 Elo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Abbasifar
Hasan Abbasifar (; born 11 August 1972) is an Iranian-Spanish chess grandmaster, titled in 2013. He was a member of the Iran chess national team. 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 sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami (; born 11 August 1982) is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2000). He is the record holder of the Iranian Chess Championship with 13 titles. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2583. In 2004, he finished first in the Kish GM Tournament. In 2009, he won a 20-game combined match (four classical, four rapid and twelve blitz games) against Anatoly Karpov, played with the proviso that each game be played to mate or dead draw. The overall score was eight wins to Ghaem-Maghami, seven wins to Karpov, and five draws. In 2011, he finished first in the 10th Avicenna International Open Tournament in Hamadan, Iran. Early life Ehsan was born in Tehran and learned to play chess from his father. His rise in the chess community was swift as he won the Iranian men's championship title by age 14. Career achievements Guinness World Record An Iranian grandmaster, he ousted the Israeli title holder on 9 February 2011 to regain the Guinness record for simu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
