IM\Khaled Abdel Razik Is The Winner Of Smouha First Rapid Chess International Tournament

IM\Khaled Abdel Razik (2415 Elo) won the first international rapid chess tournament that took place in Egypt at SCCA VIP Hall inside Smouha Club in the beautiful city of Alexandria from 2/4/2012  and lasted for three days The tournament attracted 59 players from all around Egypt among them 3 IMs : Mr\Khaled Abdel Razik ,Mr\Abdul Hameed El Arousy (2327 Elo) and Mr\Aly Yasseen (2323 Elo) and FM\Abdelrahman Hesham (2283 Elo) also WFM\Shrook Wafa (1891 Elo) and her sister WFM\Shahenda Wafa (1798 Elo) participated in the event .The Lybian chess player Mr\ Mohamed Aborezika -now 2126 Elo-also participated in the event .
The winners were : First Place : IM\Khaled Abdel Razik (2415 Elo) who scored 6 points ,Mr.Saiid A Naby (2339 Elo) came second -by tiebreaks- with 5.5 points followed by Mr.Ahmed Mousa (2256 Elo) with 5.5 points in third place while IM\Aly Yasseen came fourth with 5.5 points and in fifth place FM\Abdelrahman Hesham (2283 Elo) who scored also 5.5 points .
The tournament was a 7 round rapid (20 min + 10 sec) event .The Appeal's Committee was headed by I.A\Yehya Mosalem and with Eng.Medhat Moheb and Eng.Atef Morsi members .The tournament director was Eng.Mohammed Fawzy , the Chief Arbiter was I.A\Mosa Gomaa and the arbiters were : Mr.Mohamed Saad ,Mr.Nasser Sedik ,Mr.Hesham Elsenousy , Mr.Galal Mohamed ,Mr.Abd ELsalam Mohamed and I.A Eng.Hassan Khaled was responsible for the pairing .
Congratulations to all winners !
For more information : http://chess-results.com/tnr69711.aspx?art=1&rd=7&lan=1
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A Short Video From The Simultaneous Chess Exhibition By FM\Andro Wagdy At SCCA On 2\3\2012

The Very Young Talented FM\Andro Wagdy (2038 Elo) Plays A Simultaneous Chess Exhibition In SCCA On 2/3/2012

FM\Andro Wagdy (2038 Elo) - a 15 years old chess prodigy and African and Arab chess champion- played earlier today a very successful  simultaneous chess exhibition against 12 young talented players from SCCA at the prestigious SCCA VIP hall 
The result was surprisingly +12-0=0 in favor of FM\Andro who played a very solid chess and used his huge experience to create winning positions on all boards .At the end FM\Andro played a blindfolded game against Yara Ibrahim Allam -8 years old-that ended in a draw .
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How To Beat The French Defence :A Lesson From The Veteran IM\Aly Yasseen

                               IM\Aly Yasseen (2340 Elo) played one of his best game ever in his chess career as he was able to show his skills when he played Mr.Khaled Attea (2218 Elo) during the match between Smouha and Badr chess teams in the Egyptinan Chess League that took place at SCCA VIP hall on Friday the 17th of February .IM\Aly Yasseen  -who is now 62 years old- demolished his experienced opponent  defenses with a means of a beautiful combination starting with a bishop sacrifice in a game that lasted for 25 minutes .

The Egyptian Excellent Chess League A (Round 11) : Smouha X Badr (4.5:4.5)

After an exciting match  Smouha x Badr ended in an exciting draw (4.5:4.5) in the 11th round from the Egyptian Excellent chess league (A) that took place at the VIP Hall in SCCA on 17\2\2012 .On board (1) IM\Aly Yasseen (2340 Elo) -who is now 62 years old- played one of his best games ever and demolished his experienced opponent (Mr.Khaled Atea (2218 Elo)) defenses with a means of a beautiful combination starting with a bishop sacrifice in a game that lasted for 25 minutes , while on board (2) Mr.Ashraf Toson (2108 Elo) drew with Mr.Mohamed Ibrahim (2178 Elo) ;and on board (3) Mr.Mahmoud Hamdy Darwish (2148 Elo) -from Smouha club- although had his opponent queen (Youssef Ismail (2078 Elo) pinned but could not escape the perpetual check by the black rook on the first and second ranks .On board (4) Mr.Salah Mansour (2228 Elo) playing with the black pieces consumed a lot of time on one move that he actually lost on time after had been held in a difficult position by Mr.Reda Fadel (2162 Elo) ;while on board (5) Mr.Ehab Abd Elaziz (2158 Elo) drew with his inevitable weapon Bird opening against the well known player and trainer Mr.Amro Samy (2123 Elo) and on board (6) Mr.Nasser Mosallam (2096 Elo) drew with the black pieces against the Ruy Lopez of his strong opponent Mr.Mohamed Abd El Samee (2231 Elo) ,while Smouha young youth gathered 1.5 points from 3 games as :Omar Idris lost on board 7 from Aly Hassan Tawfeik ,and Omar Khaled won his game against Yussef Saiid and on board (9) Abd El Rahman Yasser Allam drew with Abdallah Saiid.
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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

Former World Chess Champion U-20 And Egypt's Top Chess Player GM\Ahmed Adly Played A Simultaneous In SCCA

On Friday the 7th of October and under the banner of peace, love and tolerance former World Chess Champion U-20 and Egypt's top chess player GM\Ahmed Adly played a Chess simultaneous in SCCA (Smouha Club Chess Academy) against 32 players; most of them are SCCA students and with the participation of many players from Bibliotheca Alexandrina chess club who are trained by I.A Mr\Ahmed Yousef .Dr\Mohamed Magy Brekah -Sports advisor to the members of board -and the Colonel \Ahmed Amre -Smouha Security General Manager - attended the event .The simultaneous lasted for more than 3 hours and the final result was ( +31-1=0 ) in favor for the super grand master .GM\Ahmed lost only one game to the very talented Laila Rashed -member of Smouha Women Chess team and the daughter of the international player Mr.Nabil Rashed member of Smouha Men Chess team - in that game GM\Ahmed showed the ethics of a young gentleman and a real chess champion ;when he reached a lost position against Laila he refused gently her offer to draw the game but instead he encouraged her to continue playing to have self confidence and win which happened a few moves later .GM\Ahmed Adly then made a spectacular show when he played against 2 players -whom he chose from his opponents in the simultaneous (Laila Rashed and Yousef Ashraf)- simultaneously and blindfolded in a 15 minutes game ! The super GM showed his skills and impressively won the 2 games in a great style .
 GM\Ahmed Adly has previously visited SCCA and played a chess simultaneous and gave a lecture in the academy as in the following link :  http://medhatmoheb.blogspot.com/2010/03/world-junior-chess-champion-u-20_26.html
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FM\Moheb Amir Deservedly Won Smouha Second Closed Chess International Tournament

Ex African and Arab Champion (U-16) FM\Moheb Amir (2158 Elo) -now U-18- won his last game in the tournament against Mr.Ehab Abdel Aziz (2177) with a great style to clinch the title with 7.5 points while the tournament leader Mr.Moustafa Raslan (2112) drew his game aginst Mr.Tarek Abdel Wahed (2108) to come second with 7 points and fifth with 6.5 points consecutively .
Mr.Nabil Rashed (2139) won his game against Mr.Ahmed Mohamed Saad (2081) to come fourth with 7 points .Mr\Nasser Mosallam (2064) won his game against Eng.Remon Fekry (2168) to come third with 7 points .
The winner of the first prize for unrated players was Dr.Fatehy Assem who played a great tournament and won his final game with the white pieces against Mr.Hossam Mosallam (2067) to score 6 points .
Abdel Rahman Yasser Allam (U-12) came second for unrated players with 5.5 points while Eng.Mohamed Sallam ,Mr.Kareim Anton and Gerorge Mourad came from 3rd to 5th places with 5 points .
Hana Elwazzan won the trophy of the Sprtsmanship trophy .
For more information : http://chess-results.com/tnr54413.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&turdet=YES
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Smouha Second Closed International Chess Tournament :Round 8

FM\Moheb Amir blundered away a Knight and lost his first game in the tournament-playing with the black pieces- against the more experienced player Mr.Nabil Rashed ,also on board (2) Mr.Moustafa Raslan drew his game against Mr.Nasser Mosallam while on board (3) Mr.Tarek Abd Elwahed won his game against Mr.Salah Hanafy ; and on board (4) Mr.Khaled Abdel El Ghany lost his game -playing with the white pieces- against Mr.Ehab Abdel Aziz. The big surprise came on board (7) when the unrated  Dr.Asem Fatehy won a beautiful game against Alexandria Champion for many years Mr.Ashraf Toson (2136) . 
For more information: http://chess-results.com/tnr54413.aspx?art=2&rd=8&lan=1&turdet=YES
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Smouha Second Closed International Chess Tournament :Round 7

Before the start of Round 7 all attendances in the playing hall stood for a minute of silence in tribute to the souls of the Egyptian soldiers who lost their lives in a filthy heinous crime on the border with Israel .
FM\Moheb Amir (2158) drew his game against the well known and experienced player Mr.Nasser Mosallam (2064) to keep his lead with 6.5 points while Mr.Moustafa Raslan (2112) won his game against Mr.Ehab Abdel Aziz (2177) to come in second place alone with 6 points while Mr.Nasser Mosallam (2064) ,Mr.Nabil Rashed (2139) and Mr.Salah Hanafy (2094)  came third with 5 points .
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Smouha Second Closed International Chess Tournament :Round 6

FM\ Moheb Amir (2158) won his game with the white pieces against Eng.Remon Fekry (2168)- a Winawer French-to keep the lead by 6 points out of 6 games ; followed by Mr.Moustafa Raslan (2112) and Mr.Naser Mosallam (2064) with 5 points and then came Eng.Remon Fekry (2168) and Mr.Ehab Abdel Aziz (2177) with 4.5 points .

For more Information : http://chess-results.com/tnr54413.aspx?art=1&rd=6&lan=1&turdet=YES

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Smouha Second Closed International Chess Tournament :Round 5

FM\Moheb Amir (2158) leads alone with perfect score 5 points followed by Eng\Remon Fekry (2168) with 4.5 points then comes with 4 points : Mr.Moustafa Raslan (2112) ,Mr.Nabil Rashed (2139),Mr.Salah Hanfy (2094) and Mr.Nasser Mosallam (2064) Mr.Kareim Anton comes first unrated player with 3 points .
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Smouha Club Holds SCCA Second International Closed Chess Tournament From 13\8\2011 - 21\8\2011 بطولة سموحة الثانية الدولية المقفولة

Under the auspice of Engineer\Farag Amer -Chairman Of Smouha Club -and the Egyptian Chess Federation (Chairman Dr.Moustafa Abu Elkhair) and the contribution of Smouha members Smouha Club  holds SCCA Second Closed Chess Tournament from 13\8 to 21\8\2011.
20 rated players U-2200 will participate and also Miss\Nadhmia AbdElsalam -Chairman Of The General Union for Women's Sport and Vice President Of The Olympic Committee-from Yemen honors the tournament with the participation of the rated players :Mada ElShereif and Omaima Awad from Yemen .
تحت رعاية السيد المهندس/محمد فرج عامر -رئيس مجلس ادارة نادى سموحة 
الرياضي  وتحت إشراف  الإتحاد المصرى للشطرنج برئاسة الدكتور/مصطفى أبو  الخير رئيس مجلس الإدارة و أيضاً التعاون المثمر لأعضاء النادى ينظم نادى سموحة بطولة الشطرنج الثانية المقفولة فى الفترة من 13/8 إلى  21/8
يشرف البطولة مشاركة لأستاذة/نظمية عبد السلام رئيسة الإتحاد العام لرياضة المرأة و نائب رئيس اللجنة الأوليمبية بجمهورية اليمن الشقيق و أيضاً الأستاذة مادا الشريف و الأستاذة/أميمة عوض 
For more information : http://chess-results.com/tnr54413.aspx?lan=1

SCCA Students Deservedly Won The 2011 Egyptian National Youth Championship At Bibliotheca Alexandrina In Alexandria ,Egypt

Yara Ibrahim Allam

Abd Elrahman Yasser Allam (2052 Elo)

Ammar ahmed Samy With GM\Bassem Samir Amin

Sara and Mariam Nabil Mansour

Heba Hassan Elwazan -on the left-(2027 Elo)

From Left Khouloud Abd Elmonaem , Medhat Moheb ,Salma Wagdy

SCCA -Smouha Club Chess Academy- students deservedly won the 2011 Egyptian National Youth Chess Championships that took place from 12-19 June at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria ,Egypt .

The young talented boys and girls played an excellent tournament and won most of their games brilliantly and powerfully.

The results were as follows :

Salma Wagdi (Girls U-10) won the championship and came first ,Ammar Ahmed Samy (Open U-8) and Heba Hassan Elwazan (2027 Elo) -Girls U-12- came second ;while Yara Ibrahim Allam (Girls U-8) and AbdElrahman Yasser Allam (2052 Elo) came third ;also Khouloud Abd Elmonaem (Girls U-12) came fourth while Sara Nabil Mansour (Girls U-8) and Mohab Yasser Allam (Open U-10) came fifth.

Hana Hassan (Girls U-8) and Nada Abbas (Girls U-10) and Omar Khaled (Open U-14) came 6th ;while Kyreya Arsany (Girls U-12) came 7th ;also Mariam Nabil Mansour (Girls U-8) and Mark Medhat Moheb (Open U-10) came in the eighth place ; while Omar Moustafa (Open U-14) came tenth ;Ahmed Sameh (Open U-12) was the 12th and finally Marwan Tarek the 14th and Ahmed Bahaa the 20th in (Open U-14).

I wish my students the best and to see them all soon Grandmasters !

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 !

The Great Egyptian Chess Trainer :International Lecturer IA. Engineer\Hassan Khaled Visited SCCA

 The great Egyptian chess trainer and International Lecturer and Arbiter Engineer\Hassan Khaled visited SCCA on 18th & 19th of February .The famous Egyptian Chess Expert gave 2 instructive lectures that attracted the attention of SCCA students and enjoyed a lot as the well known Fide Trainer focused on important chess themes such as : Tactics , traps in the opening strategy and how an advanced chess player should prepare using chess software ...etc.

On behalf of myself and all SCCA staff and players I would like to thank Eng\Hassan for his honorable visit and instructive lectures .

Smouha First Closed Chess Tournament Takes Place From 21-28 December 2010

 Smouha First Closed Chess Tournament will take place from 21-28 December 2010 at Smouha Club Chess Academy (SCCA) VIP hall in Alexandria ,Egypt .Ten players were invited to play : 4 Masters and 6 talented youth from SCCA will compete in a one round Robin Tournament.The chess masters are :IM\Aly Yasseen (2320);Mr.Khaled Abdel Ghany (2133);Mr.Mahmoud Hamdy Darwish (2117)and Mr.Ashraf Toson (2116) while the talented chess youth are :Yara Allam ; Perihan Asem;Heba Elwazzan ;Ahmed Sameh ; Salma Wagdy-member of Egypt's national team and second U-10- and Abdel Rahman Yasser -member of Egypt's National team and Youth Chess Champion U-10-.

The chief arbiter is I.A Mr.\Yehya Mosallam and I.A Eng.\Hassan Khaled is responsible for the pairing and the tournament director is Eng.Medhat Moheb.

For more information : http://chess-results.com/tnr41998.aspx?lan=1

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.

The Closing Ceremony For Smouha Youth Chess Tournament 2010 :Full Results And Impressions !

On Saturday ,the third of July a huge and magnificent closing ceremony of Smouha Club Chess Academy (SCCA) second youth chess tournament 2010 ;one of the greatest Egyptian youth chess tournaments ever that took place in the V.I.P hall at Smouha club. The well known business man Engineer\Farag Amer Chairman of Smouha club and member of the senate attended the closing ceremony ;also attended the closing ceremony Mr.Sobhy Hamido member of Smouha club board ,and Engineer\Ahmed Hassan -Head of the sports committee-and Dr.Kamal Abbas -Head of the sports activity-and the honorable guest Engineer\Marwa Elderiny -Vice president of Future Protectors Association -who was the main sponsor of the event. The ceremony commenced by listening to the Egyptian National Anthem then I gave a word of welcome to all the honorable guests and players. Engineer\Farag Amer welcomed all the attendances ,players and champions, and all the families present and he also wished all of the players great success in their futures as chess players and to achieve their dreams to become chess champions ;he also saluted the staff of SCCA for their efforts.Engineer\Marwa Eldriny expressed her happiness for sponsoring this wonderful tournament and spoke about the role of Future Protectors Association in protecting youth against drugs. Smouha Club shield was given to :Mr.Yehya Mosalem (The international arbiter) ,IM\Aly Yasseen and to Engineer\Marwa Eldriny.
The Prizes and The Winners:
1)A special trophy was given to Boys best sportsmanship which was won by Youssef Sameh and another special trophy to Girls best sportsmanship which was won by Bereyhan Assem 2)A trophy for Boys best game which carry the name of the late IM\Essam Aly Ahmed was won by Moustafa Sherif and the same trophy for girls was won by Salma Wagdy 3)The best combination prize which holds the name of the late legendary world chess champion\Bobby Fischer was won by Aya Motazz.
4)A blitz digital chess clock awarded by Mr.Hussein Nafady was won by Mohamed Nader champion of the open (U17,19) Swiss event
5)B(U-9) was won by :Mouhab Yasser Allam B(U-11) was won by :Adham Mohamed Fawzy B(U-13) was won by :Mohamed Adel Ibrahim B(U-15) was won by :Zyad Mohamed Abd Elmonaem B(U-17) was won by :Mohamed Nader B(U-19) was won by :(FM)Abd Elrahman Hesham .
6) G(U-9) was won by :Sarah Adel G(U-11) was won by:Heba Elwazan G(U-13) was won by:Aya Motazz G(U-15) was won by:Yomna Khaled G(U-17) was won by:Alaa Motazz G(U-19) was won by:Nourhan Hesham
I would like to thank :Engineer\Hassan Khaled (the international arbiter and Fide Lecturer),Mr.Yehya Mosalem (The international arbiter), Mr.Ahmed Youssef (The international Arbiter),Mr.Moussa Gommaa (The Fide Arbiter)and Mr.Mohamed Saad and Mr.Hesham Elsenousy (First Class Arbiters) and also Mr.Islam Elmsery (SCCA Adminstrative).
All Tournaments results and details are found here:http://chess-results.com/tnr35529.aspx?art=1&rd=9&lan=1&turdet=YES&m=-1&wi=1000