| Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami | |
|---|---|
| Country | Iran |
| Born | August 11, 1982 |
| Title | Grandmaster (2000) |
| FIDE rating | 2583 (September 2011) |
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Competitor for Iran | ||
| Chess | ||
| Asian Games | ||
| Bronze | 2006 Doha | Team classical |
| Asian Indoor Games | ||
| Bronze | 2007 Macau | Team rapid |
| Bronze | 2009 Quang Ninh | Team blitz |
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami (Persian: احسان قائم مقامی ; born 11 August 1982) is a chess grandmaster (2000)[1] from Iran. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2583.
In 2004 he came first in the Kish GM Tournament.[2] In 2009, he won a 20 games combined match (four classical, four rapid and twelve blitz games) against Anatoly Karpov, played with a special rule: play to mate or dead draw. The overall score was eight wins to Ghaem-Maghami, seven wins to Karpov, and five draws.[3] In 2011 he came first in the 10th Avicenna International Open Tournament in Hamadan, Iran.[4]
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An Iranian grandmaster said he ousted the Israeli title holder on 2011/02/09 to regain the Guinness record for simultaneous chess games after facing more than 600 players in over 25 hours.
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami, 28, won 96 percent of his games which began on 2011/02/08 in Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University, a feat reportedly making him the new Guinness title holder of the game.[5][6]
Of the total 614 games, Ghaem-Maghami won 590, lost eight and drew 16 in a feat that took more than 25 hours and treading around 55 kilometres (34 mi) as he moved from opponent to opponent.
He said he would have put in the same zeal even if the previous title holder was a non-Israeli. "Iran is great and deserves the best. Let's not talk politics... even if this record was held by another person, I would have gone all out to break it," he said after the matches when asked about ousting Israeli Alik Gershon.
In October 2011, Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami was expelled from the Corsica Masters international chess tournament in Bastia, France for refusing to play in his scheduled match against Israeli player Ehud Sachar. Ghaem-Maghami told organizers he would not play the Israeli for political reasons. The Islamic Republic of Iran, which refuses to recognize the existence of the Jewish state and regularly calls for its destruction, has long refused to engage in sports competition against Israel.[7]
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