A Full Illustrated Report About The Historical Visit Of The Legendary 12th World Chess Champion GM\Anatoly Karpov To SCCA (Part 1)

The legendary 12th World Chess Champion GM\Anatoly Karpov arrived at Smouha Club on Sunday the 4th of July at exactly 10:30 p.m accompanied by Mr.Hussein Nafady-chairman of the Egyptian Chess Federation-and the businessman Dr.Amur D. Kanchaveli -Dr. of Economical Sciences and Official representative in the Kingdom of Morocco- with his wife and Dr.Saher Al-Khateeb -Official representative of Kad-M Association-and the chess Grandmaster\Alexander -Assistant of GM\Karpov-The honorable guests were received by the well known Engineer\Farag Amer -Chairman Of Smouha Club and member of the senate-and members of board of Smouha Club ;at the Chirman's hall in the Tennis Stadium then all of the honorable personalities went to SCCA in the VIP hall.

The world Champion was received by a huge crowd -mainly members of SCCA and their Families-and many fans who saluted him warmly.GM\Anatoly karpov followed shortly some of SCCA students who showed their chess skills while playing blitz chess games.

Super GM\Bassem Samir visits SCCA (7\8\2009)

Silver and bronze medal winner in junior world championships GM\Bassem Samir Amin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassem_Amin visited SCCA on 7\8\2009-accompanied by his nice family- and played against 35 opponents with a perfect score +35=0-0 after a long marathon as the match was very tense that the last game was decided by a blitz game in which the great Egyptian grandmaster faced an opponent (Mr.Kareem Anton) who blundered badly as he insisted to write down the moves in his score-sheet.
The link for all the photos of the event can be found on the following link:http://tinyurl.com/yb88dqo
I would like to thank Dr.Ahmed Elzayady for sending me a video for the blitz game.

World Junior Chess Champion U-20 GM\Ahmed Adly visits SCCA on 4\7\2009

World junior chess champion U-20 in (Yerevan,Armenia 2007) and the first Egyptian chess GM\Ahmed Adly -http://http//www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4266-visited SCCA and played a simul against 25 players ;the score was a crushing win (+25=0-0) in favor of the GM but the players then enjoyed a very instructive lecture given by the world champion.
All photos of the event can be found in the following link :http://tinyurl.com/ybrbxva