Hichem Hamdouchi

Hichem Hamdouchi (Arabic هشام الحمدوشی; born 8 October 1972, in Tangier) is a Moroccan chess grandmaster.

Hamdouchi has won the Moroccan Chess Championship eleven times, first in 1988 at 15 years old, when he was first allowed to play in important tournaments.

In the same year, in the tournament of Casablanca, he was noticed for his talent and qualified for the national team of Morocco to participate in the Chess Olympiad of 1988 in Thessaloniki.

At the age of 17 he managed to qualify in the African selection for the World Team Chess Championship in Lucerne.

In the FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli he progressed to the third round, where he was eliminated 0.5-1.5 by eventual runner-up Michael Adams.