Bachar Kouatly
French chess player, journalist, and activist
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 Bachar Kouatly in 2016 | |
| Country | Lebanon France |
| Born | (1958-03-03) 3 March 1958 (age 66) Damascus, Syria |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| FIDE rating | 2453 (April 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2520 (July 1993) |
Bachar Kouatly (Arabic: بشار قواتلي) (born 3 March 1958 in Damascus) is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist. He is deputy president of FIDE.[1]
He played three times for Lebanon in the World Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valletta 1980. He won a zonal tournament at Qatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982 Interzonal tournament in Toluca.
Kouatly won the French Chess Championship in 1979.[2] He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).[3]
He was awarded the titles of International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1989.
Bachar Kouatly is an editor of Europe Échecs, a French–language chess magazine.
On December 10, 2016, he was elected President of the French Chess Federation.[4] In 2018, he was elected the deputy president of the International Chess Federation.
References
External links
- Bachar Kouatly rating card at FIDE
- Bachar Koyatly chess games at 365Chess.com
- Bachar Kouatly player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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French Grandmasters
Chess players for France with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
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- Boris Spassky
- Anatoly Vaisser
- Bachar Kouatly
- Anthony Kosten
- Joël Lautier
- Olivier Renet
- Manuel Apicella
- Mircea-Sergiu Lupu
- Éric Prié
- Marc Santo-Roman
- Vladislav Tkachiev
- Pavel Tregubov
- Andrei Shchekachev
- Étienne Bacrot
- Christian Bauer
- Jean-Marc Degraeve
- David Marciano [fr; ru]
- Gilles Mirallès
- Igor-Alexandre Nataf
- Eloi Relange
- Darko Anić
- Andrei Sokolov
- Laurent Fressinet
- Arnaud Hauchard
- Vladimir Lazarev
- Jean-Luc Chabanon
- Robert Fontaine
- Cyril Marcelin
- Emmanuel Bricard
- Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
- Sébastien Feller
- Sébastien Mazé
- Thal Abergel
- Matthieu Cornette
- Marie Sebag
- Romain Édouard
- François Fargère
- Tigran Gharamian
- Fabien Libiszewski
- Jean-Pierre Le Roux
- Anthony Wirig
- Aliaksei Charnushevich
- Yannick Gozzoli
- Maxime Lagarde
- Laurent Guidarelli
- Jean-Noël Riff
- Adrien Demuth
- Jonathan Dourerassou
- Jules Moussard
- Axel Delorme
- Paul Velten
- Alireza Firouzja
- Gabriel Flom
- Marc'Andria Maurizzi
- Pierre Bailet
- Clovis Vernay
- Pierre Laurent-Paoli
- See also: List of chess grandmasters
- Category:French chess players
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