Bachar Kouatly | |
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.jpg) Bachar Kouatly in 2016 | |
| Country | Lebanon France |
| Born | (1958-03-03)3 March 1958 (age 67) Damascus,Syria |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| FIDE rating | 2453 (March 2025) |
| Peak rating | 2520 (July 1993) |
Bachar Kouatly (Arabic: بشار قواتلي) (born 3 March 1958 inDamascus) is a Frenchchessgrandmaster, journalist and activist. He is deputy president ofFIDE.[1]
He played three times for Lebanon in theWorld Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at theChess Olympiad at La Valletta 1980. He won a zonal tournament atQatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982Interzonal tournament inToluca.
Kouatly won theFrench 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 ofInternational Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1989.
Bachar Kouatly is an editor ofEurope 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.
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