Bassem Amin (Arabic: باسم أمين; born 9 September 1988) is an Egyptian chess grandmaster and medical doctor.
Arab Champion Under 20 3 times : (Jordan) 2005 ( His 2nd GM norm ), July 2006 and August 2007 African Under-20 Champion, Botswana 2005 ( 3rd GM norm ) Bronze Medalist In World Youth Under 18 (Georgia) 2006 Arab men Champion (UAE) 2006 In 2007, he tied for first with Ashot Anastasian in the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival, with a performance rating of 2747.
[6] Co-Winner of Reykjavik Open 2013[7] Arab Men Champion UAE 2013 Mediterranean Chess Champion Greece 2014[8] Scored 8.5 points out of 11 on Board 1 at the 41st World Chess Olympiad, leading the Egyptian National Chess Team to achieve the best result in Egyptian Chess history and win a gold medal in Category B Amin graduated from the faculty of Medicine of the Tanta University in 2012.
He is one of seven medical doctors who are also chess grandmasters (along with Alex Sherzer, Helmut Pfleger, Yona Kosashvili, Dan Zoler, Diego Valerga, and Muhammed Batuhan Daştan),[citation needed] the highest rated medical doctor and grandmaster, and the only medical doctor to have achieved a FIDE rating of 2700+.
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