Adly graduated from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport with a degree in Business Administration in 2010.

Adly then succeeded in acquiring the third place in the World Championship U18 in 2004 in Greece, at which point he believes his chess career was defined.

[5] Adly tied for 1st-5th with Gabriel Sargissian, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Igor-Alexandre Nataf and Pentala Harikrishna in the Reykjavík Open 2006.

[6] In 2007, Adly won the World Junior Chess Championship, becoming the first player from an African country to win a major title.

[9] In April 2020, he won the Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open, defeating IM Liam Vrolijk of the Netherlands.

On the International level, In 2004, Adly qualified for the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004), but lost the first-round match, after rapid tiebreaks, to Sergei Rublevsky.

In 2005, Adly won the Arab Junior Chess Championship and qualified once more, but he was again eliminated in the first round of the FIDE World Cup (2005), this time by Ruslan Ponomariov.