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2020, Events, Players, Title Norms

Yichen Breaks FM Record !

Yichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal
Yichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal

Newcastle Upon Tyne resident Yichen Han became the youngest Dutch holder of the FIDE Master (FM) title at the age of twelve years and two months.

Yichen was born in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands.

The games required to complete the FM title were played at the recent 4NCL Harrogate Congress . The final game was a win versus Robert Starley of Crowthorne Chess Club having started with a win versus CM Peter Ackley.

Yichen plays for Forest Hall and is a student at RGS Newcastle.

He currently has a FIDE rating of 2257 for standard play and an ECF grading of 215.

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[Site “Telford”]
[Date “2018.08.10”]
[Round “1”]
[White “Hebden, Mark”]
[Black “Han, Yichen”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “D01”]
[WhiteElo “2425”]
[BlackElo “1952”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
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[EventDate “2018.08.10”]
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[/pgn]

Yichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal
Yichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal
2023, 4NCL, Birthday, Players

Happy Birthday IM Ali Mortazavi (20-i-1971)

IM Ali Mortazavi
IM Ali Mortazavi

We send best wishes to IM Ali Mortazavi on his birthday, this day (January 20th) in 1971

IM Ali Mortazavi
IM Ali Mortazavi

Ali is a British IM who was a successful trader in the financial markets.

In the FIDE directory he is listed as a Councillor in the Global Strategy Commission (GSC).

He was a professional player and became the CEO of Silence Therapeutics (SLN) :

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jn9ksND5w[/embedyt]

Ali reached his hightest FIDE rating of 2410 in July 1994 aged 23.

He has played for Beeson Gregory in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). He played at the Isle of Man Open in 2018 but sadly, little since.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3kLjUqZNc[/embedyt]

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[Round “?”]
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[Black “Van der Sterren, Paul”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “D29”]
[WhiteElo “2320”]
[BlackElo “2530”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “47”]
[EventDate “1992.08.??”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “10”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 031 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1993.01.01”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “1993.01.01”]
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IM Ali Mortazavi
IM Ali Mortazavi