Smouha First Open Chess Tournament For Women Takes Place From 25-29 December 2011

For the first time and under the auspice of Eng.Farag Amer -Chairman of Smouha Club- and the Egyptian Chess federation Smouha First Open Chess Tournament for Women will take place from 25-29 December 2011 at Smouha Club Chess Academy (SCCA) VIP hall in Alexandria ,Egypt.The tournament is open for all female players of all ages and from all over the country to participate .The registration fees is 100 L.E for any participant and 50 L.E for any rated participant .The highest 8 rated participants will be exempted from paying the registration fees and will be granted free accommodation and free transportation to and from Smouha Club .The tournament Technical Committee members are : IM\Aly Yasseen and Eng.Medhat Moheb while the tournament director is Mr.Moustafa Ibrahim and the tournament administrative is Mr.Eslam Elmesery . The total prize fund about 2000 L.E .The tournament's regulation could be found here and here .For more information: http://chess-results.com/tnr62562.aspx?lan=1

Smouha Chess Team Reaches The Excellent Egyptian Chess League Section "B"

Engineer\Farag Amer received and honored Smouha chess team for reaching the Excellent Chess League Section "B" after a tough tournament.The team played 10 games scoring 8 wins and drawing 2 games.

The list of honor includes:IM\Aly Yasseen ,Mr.Mohamed Hegazy,Mr.Ahmed El Atar,Eng.Mohamed Salam,Sherif Anter,Moustafa Ibrahim,Mr.Mohamed Awad,Mr.Ahmed Fathallah, Mr.Kareim Anton ,Hassan Hany El Sherif,Dr.Amr Bassma and the Youth :(U-12)Abd Elrahman Yasser Allam,Ahmed Sameh,Omar Moustafa and (U-14)Yasser Mohamed,Marwan Tarek,Merna Nabil and (U-16)Moustafa Tarek,George Mourad,Doha Shabaan.

Team technical director and supervisor:Eng.Medhat Moheb and team adminstrative:Mr.Islam Elmesery.

Congratulations !

Welcome in SCCA World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov

The legendary 12th World chess champion Grandmaster\Anatoly Karpov will visit SCCA (Smouha Club Chess Academy) on Sunday the 4th of July during his visit to Egypt for opening Karpov's schools of chess .The world chess champion has 2 schools which carry his name in the Arabic world the first one in Syria and the other in Morocco.
Mr.Hussein Nafady -The Chairman of the Egyptian Chess Federation-will accompany the World Chess Champion with an honorable Russian delegation during the visit.
Engineer\Farag Amer -Chairman Of Smouha Club and member of the Senate-will meet with the honorable guests.
SCCA officially opened on the fifth of September 2008 ;SCCA staff are :Engineer\Medhat Moheb -Academy Director-IM\Aly Yasseen (technical director),MR.Mohamed Hezazy (Trainer).
Source of the photo:http://www.chessbase.com/ESPANOLA/images/2009/Valencia/AnatoliKarpov1.jpg

Engineer\Farag Amer -Chairman Of Smouha Club-honors SCCA Staff&Champions during The Seminar Held For Football Star And Tv Presenter\Khaled El Ghandour

Engineer\Farag Amer -Chairman Of Smouha Club- honored SCCA Staff (Engineer\Medhat Moheb -SCCA Director-and IM\Aly Yasseen-technical director-and and Coach\Mohamed Hegazy) and SCCA champions during the seminar held in Smouha Club on 25th Of March for the great football player and Critic sports and Tv Presenter Captain\Khaled El Ghandour .
SCCA players who appear in the last photo are from the left :Yasser Mohamed Ibrahim ,Abd Elrahman Yasser Allam,Heba Hassan Elwazan,Mohab Yasser Allam,Salma Wagdy and Nada Mohamed Abbas.

Chess On The Nile :A Tournament Of Hope !

In Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة transliteration: al-Qāhira), that means "the triumphant", which is the capital and largest city of Egypt ,one of the most important chess events took place: Egyptian Youth Chess Champion-chip ‏‏ 2009 in Nahr Elnil hotel (which means :Nile River hotel)as it is directly overlooking on the river Nile at El Maadi District which is a wealthy suburb south of Cairo from 7-12 th of February. The tournament which was a Swiss event of (9) rounds attracted 198 players (160 boys and 38 girls) of young Egyptian talents from all over the country , whom where classified according to age and gender into 5 main categories as follows : 1) Boys U10: 26 players Girls U10 :10 players 2) Boys U12: 29 players Girls U12 :9 Players 3) Boys U14: 36 Players Girls U14 :10 Players 4) Boys U16: 49 Players Girls 16-18:9 Players 5) Boys U18: 20 Players The tournament had 2 players having official Fide titles :WGM\Mona khaled playing in boys U16 and FM\Andro Wagdy playing in boys U12 and also 5 rated players over 2000: Moheb Ameir (2081), Mohamed Nader (2013),WGM\Mona Khaled (2005) playing in boys U16 and Abd Elrahman Hesham (2085) , Marko Fadi (2037) playing in boys U18. The Egyptian Chess Federation bore the cost and fees of (1) boy and (1) girl from each region of the country to encourage as many players as possible to participate in the tournament. Final Results : 1) Boys U10: Girls U10: First :Mohamed Mahmoud First :Sherien Kamal Second:Mark Yasser Second:Laila Amin Third :Khaled El Ashkar Third :Dalia Ibrahim 2) Boys U12: Girls U12: First :Andro Wagdy First :Sherook Hamed Second:Mohamed Zalook Second : Sohayla Abdelmenaem Third :Mohamed Hussein Third : Shahenda Hamed 3) Boys U14: Girls U14: First :Mena Aziz First : Mona Abdelazem Second:Ahmed Magdy Second: Entsar Abdelnaby Third :Mohamed Osama Third : Mariah Saber 4) Boys U16: Girls 16-18: First :Mohamed Nader (2013) First : Ayat El Hakeem Second:Moheb Ameir (2081) Second: Amany Abdelmoneam Third :Mohamed Ayman Ghanaym Third : Eman Elansary 5) Boys U18: First :Abdelrahman Hesham (2085) Second:Marko Fadi (2037) Third :Mohamed Ehab The tournament was a very hard fought one for each participant ,that the final standings were unclear until the final moves of the games had been played in the last round. Students from Smouha Club Chess Academy (SCCA)-that was established in Alexandria under the auspices of well known business man engineer \Farag Amer chairman of Smouha Club-those students ;who had been playing chess for only 4 months surprised everyone and scored good results ; for example : In Girls U14 section :Youmna Mosaad made a great achievement and scored 6 points out of 9 and became fifth although she could have finished third but unfortunately in a critical game blundered away her queen while she was about to give her opponent a checkmate; and also In Boys U10 section :the very talented Abdelrahman Yasser Allam scored 5 points and finished 9th and also In Boys U12 section : the very talented Yasser Ibrahim played very fine games and finished the 12th and also Omar Mosaad played some good games in the same section but not with his full strength . Special Thanks : I very much want to thank: 1)Engineer\Farag Amer –the well known businessman and chairman of Smouha Club- who kindly supported the establishment of the first chess academy in Egypt and constantly helped to supply the academy with all chess equipments and encouraged the participation of SCCA students in the competition although they have been learning chess for only 4 months. 2) Madame Gihan El Sahaar -who is a member of board of the Egyptian Chess Federation and also WGM\Mona khaled mother- ;who is really an honest person and of great personality ;I want to thank her for her support and encouragement. 3)Chief-Arbiter \ I.A.Wagdy Lamie and Mr\Mohamed Farouk who made an incredible effort to make sure this tournament achieve huge success and constantly supervised the results on the web site : http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=EGY which helped me a lot in this report. 4)Mr.\Mohamed saad who is a first class chess referee and a representative of Alexandria chess region ;who made an extremely hard work and effort to facilitate all conditions for the young chess players from Alexandria. 5)Engineer\John George –who is the Managing Director of Power Consult LLC www.powerconsultegypt.com ; email: john@powerconsultegypt.com -who provided me with his great photos for the event and the lovely scenes from Cairo which I really appreciate a lot. One Final Word : Why is it a tournament of hope ? because In Egypt ;a population of about 80 millions ;we have only 3 GMS :Ahmed Adly, Bassem Amin and Essam Elgindy .The real hope of having more GMS depends mainly on the youth ,which means the acceleration of wide spreading chess everywhere in the country ,and creating a chess culture so more boys and girls come in to play the royal game ,which the Egyptian Chess Federation –under the auspice of Chairman \Hussein Nafady- is trying to do . I always admire the words of the late Senator\Robert Kennedy –God bless his soul- “Some men see things as they are and say why ? I dream things that never where and say why not ?” I hope my dream comes true one day …and that is another story.
Here is the link for all the photos:http://tinyurl.com/ycqkv4t
Note:This article was published on Chessbase website:http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5318 on 27\3\2009