Adham Fawzy

Adham Fawzy

Adham Fawzy at the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023
Personal information
Born	(2000-01-03) January 3, 2000 (age 26) Alexandria, Egypt
Chess career
Country	Egypt
Title	Grandmaster (2019)
FIDE   rating	2462 (January 2026)
Peak rating	2553 (November 2023)

Adham Fawzy (born 2000) is an Egyptian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2019. As of May 2023, he is the third-highest rated active Egyptian player, and fourth-highest in the African continent. ^[1] By May 1st 2023 his rating was 2495, by November 2023 his rating was 2553.

Career

He won the 2017, 2018 ^{[2] [3]} and 2019 ^[4] African Junior Chess Championship.

He finished third in the 2021 African Chess Championship, qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2021 in Sochi, ^[5] where he was in the first round defeated by the Russian chess player Evgeny Alekseev, 1½–2½ after rapid chess tiebreak games. He won the 2023 African Chess Championship, ^[6] qualifying for the Chess World Cup 2023.

Three times he participated with the Egyptian national team in the Chess Olympiad:

• at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku in 2016, board 3, score 4/6
• at the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi in 2018, board 3, score 4½/10
• at the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2022, board 3, score 7/9 ^[7]

Also he participated in the World Team Chess Championship, in 2017 (playing at the 3rd bord) ^[8] and in 2019.

References

1. "Fawzy, Adham". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
2. "2019 African Junior Championship (Accra, Ghana)". 24 October 2019. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
3. Masala, Kenya Chess (2019-01-12). "IM Fawzy Adham & WIM Anika Du Plessis win African Junior Chess Championship". Kenya Chess Masala. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
4. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2019 African Junior Chess Championships - Open Section". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
5. Parodi (Alessandro_Parodi), Alessandro (29 May 2021). "Ahmed Adly Wins Nip-and-Tuck African Chess Championship". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-06-26.
6. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2023 African Individual Chess Championship - Open". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
7. Chess Olympiad 2022, olimpbase.org.
8. World Team Chess Championship, olimpbase.org.

External links

• Adham Fawzy rating card at FIDE
• Adham Fawzy games at 365Chess.com
• Adham Fawzy player profile and games at Chessgames.com