Salem Saleh (chess player)

Salem A.R. Saleh

Salem Saleh, Baku 2016
Full name Salem Abdulrahman Mohamed Saleh
Country United Arab Emirates
Born (1993-01-04) 4 January 1993
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2624 (August 2017)
Peak rating 2656 (November 2016)

Salem Abdulrahman Mohamed Saleh[1] (born 4 January 1993)[2] is a chess grandmaster from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013 and 2015.

Born in Sharjah,[3] he won three titles at the Asian Youth Chess Championships: under-14 in 2007,[4] under-16 in 2008,[5] and under-18 in 2009.[6] He won the Emirati Chess Championship in 2008,[7] 2011[8] and 2012,[9] and the Arab Chess Championship in 2008 and 2014. In August 2015, in Al Ain, he won both the Asian Chess Championship and the Asian blitz chess championship.[10]

Salem Saleh has played for the UAE's national team on the top board in every Chess Olympiad since 2008.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "4th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 2013 Men Classical". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  2. ↑ GM title application. FIDE.
  3. ↑ IM title application. FIDE.
  4. ↑ "Asian Youth Championships Boys-14". chess-results.com. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  5. ↑ Akbarinia, Arash (2008-07-24). "Asian Youth Championship in Teheran". ChessBase. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
  6. ↑ R. Anantharam (2009-08-19). "Asian Youth Championships – a clean sweep by India". ChessBase.
  7. ↑ "UAE Chess Championship 2008". Chess-Tournament-Results-Server. 9 July 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "U.A.E Chess Championship 2011 Men". Chess-Tournament-Results-Server. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "UAE Chess (Ch) 2012 23 - 30 March 2012". Chess-Tournament-Results-Server. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2017.
  10. ↑ Sagar Shah (2015-08-24). "Salem Saleh wins Asian Continental 2015". ChessBase. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  11. ↑ Men's Chess Olympiads: A. R. Saleh Salem. OlimpBase.


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