Bachar Kouatly
| Bachar Kouatly | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Bachar Kouatly in 2016 | |
| Country |
Lebanon France |
| Born |
3 March 1958 Damascus, Syria |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2459 (April 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2515 |
Bachar Kouatly (born 3 March 1958 in Damascus) is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist.
He played three times for Lebanon in the World Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valleta 1980. He won a zonal tournament at Qatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982 Interzonal tournament in Toluca.
Kouatly won the French Chess Championship in 1979.[1] He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).[2]
He was awarded the International Master title in 1975, and in 1989 he became the first French player to achieve the Grandmaster title.
Bachar Kouatly is an editor of Europe Échecs, a French–language chess magazine.
References
- ↑ Championnats de France (French)
- ↑ Bachar Kouatly team chess record at OlimpBase.org
External links
- Bachar Kouatly rating card at FIDE
- Bachar Koyatly chess games at 365Chess.com
- Bachar Kouatly player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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