| Country: | Lebanon France |
| Birth Date: | 1958 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Damascus, Syria |
| Grandmaster (1989) | |
| Peakrating: | 2520 (July 1993) |
| Fideid: | 600032 |
Bachar Kouatly (Arabic: بشار قواتلي) (born 3 March 1958 in Damascus) is a French chess grandmaster, journalist and activist. He is deputy president of FIDE.[1]
He played three times for Lebanon in the World Junior Chess Championship (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon at the Chess Olympiad at La Valletta 1980. He won a zonal tournament at Qatar in 1981 and finished 14th at the 1982 Interzonal tournament in Toluca.
Kouatly won the French Chess Championship in 1979.[2] He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).[3]
He was awarded the titles of International Master in 1975 and Grandmaster in 1989.
Bachar Kouatly is an editor of Europe Échecs, a French–language chess magazine.
On December 10, 2016, he was elected President of the French Chess Federation.[4] In 2018, he was elected the deputy president of the International Chess Federation.