Aimen Rizouk Explained
| Aimen Rizouk |
| Country: | Algeria |
| Birth Date: | 3 August 1979 |
| Birth Place: | Algiers, Algeria |
| Grandmaster (2007) |
| Peakrating: | 2540 (March 2010) |
| Fideid: | 7900309 |
Aimen Rizouk (born 3 August 1979) is an Algerian chess player born in Algiers. He was the first Algerian player to be awarded the title of Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2007.[1]
Chess career
Rizouk won the Algerian Chess Championship in 1999.[2] In international team chess competitions, he represented Algeria in the 1994 and 2008 Chess Olympiads,[3] and won a gold and a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan Arab Games.[4] [5]
He played in the Chess World Cup 2000, where he finished at the bottom of Group C, the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002, where he was defeated by Alexei Shirov in the first round,[6]
External links
Notes and References
- News: Fodil . Salima . Echecs : Aïmen Rizouk " Cette discipline a un aspect pédagogique et éducatif" . Planète Sport . 30 November 2009 . 4 May 2022.
- Web site: Organizations: Algeria . E-ChessPedia . Chess Network Company . 19 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150707004825/http://www.chessnc.com/organizations/item-63.html . 7 July 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
- Web site: Bartelski . Wojciech . Rizouk, Aimen . OlimpBase . 4 May 2022.
- Web site: Bartelski . Wojciech . 11th Pan Arab Games (men): Cairo 2007 . OlimpBase . 4 May 2022.
- Web site: Bartelski . Wojciech . Individual statistics . OlimpBase . 4 May 2022.
- Web site: World Chess Championship 2001-02 FIDE Knockout Matches. FIDE. 4 May 2022.
