Young Talented Youth From SCCA Achieve Huge Suceess In Egypt

After 2 years of hard and sincere work 3 of my young talented students made a huge achievement and a great breakthrough by acquiring international rating and joining the list of highest rated players in the world.

Abdel Rahman Yasser Allam -11 years old -Egypt's National Chess Champion U-10 years obtained an Elo rating of (2052) to make him 28th in the world  and no. 1 in Africa and in Egypt (U-12 years).

Heba Hassan Elwazzan -11 years old-had an Elo rating of (2027) to make her no.3 in the world and no.1 in Africa and in Egypt (Female U-12 years) ,also Perihan Assem -13 years old- had an Elo rating of (1781) to make her no. 167 in the world and no. 1 in Africa and in Egypt (Female U-14 years).

On the left photo I am between the young talented Heba Elwazzan (left) and Perihan Assem (right) and on the right with the young talented Abdel Rahman Yasser Allam .

Congratulations to all !

Super Grandmaster\Fabiano Caruana Celebrates His 18th Birthday

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is Grandmaster and chess prodigy with dual citizenship of Italy and the United States.On 15 July 2007 Caruana became a Grandmaster at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 20 days - the youngest Grandmaster in the history of both Italy and the United States.In the July 2010 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2697, making him 39th in the world and the highest ranked player under the age of 18...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabiano_Caruana).I wish GM\Fabiano Caruana a very Happy Birthday .
Source of the photo:http://www.chessbase.com/news/2007/caruana25.jpg