GMBassem Amin

EGY Born 1988 (Age ≈38) Male
FIDE ID
10601457

About Bassem Amin

Bassem Amin was born in Tanta, Egypt, in 1988 and combined chess with medical training. After winning several Arab youth titles, he became African junior champion in 2005. He earned the grandmaster title in 2006 and shared first place at the 2007 Abu Dhabi Chess Festival with Ashot Anastasian. Show more

Bassem Amin was born in Tanta, Egypt, in 1988 and combined chess with medical training. After winning several Arab youth titles, he became African junior champion in 2005. He earned the grandmaster title in 2006 and shared first place at the 2007 Abu Dhabi Chess Festival with Ashot Anastasian. He won bronze at the 2008 World Junior Championship. His seven African senior titles came between 2009 and 2024. He also shared first at the 2013 Reykjavik Open and became Mediterranean champion in 2014. That year he scored eight and a half points from eleven games on Egypt’s top board at the Olympiad. Away from chess, he graduated from Tanta University’s medical faculty in 2012.

FIDE ratings

2615.0 +9.0

Classical

Live estimate

2582

Rapid

Published FIDE

2520

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#139
National rank · EGY
#1

Active players · Nov 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2712 Jan 2019
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
1872

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

FIDE rating history

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FIDE tournaments

DateTournamentTypeScore
2026-10-12Lag-DM 2026-2027, div Elit R2Classical½
2026-10-091. Schachbundesliga 2026-2027 Oktober 2026Classical2
2026-10-03Egyptian League 2026 ( Elite) lastClassical1

All tournament results

Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-10 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
951 2020-08-22 Online Olym Top DivC 2020 chess.com INT 5.1 Michael Adams Bassem Amin 1-0 66 Open
952 2020-08-22 Online Olym Top DivC 2020 chess.com INT 4.1 Bassem Amin Aleksander Delchev 1-0 53 Open
953 2020-08-21 Online Olym Top DivC 2020 chess.com INT 3.1 Mohamed Tissir Bassem Amin 0-1 37 Open
954 2020-08-21 Online Olym Top DivC 2020 chess.com INT 2.1 Bassem Amin Constantin Lupulescu 1/2-1/2 27 Open
955 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 2pm chess.com INT 7 Bassem Amin Alexey Sarana 0-1 44 Open
956 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 2pm chess.com INT 6 M. Amin Tabatabaei Bassem Amin 1/2-1/2 84 Open
957 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 10am chess.com INT 6 Bassem Amin David Shahinyan 0-1 38 Open
958 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 10am chess.com INT 5 Viktor Skliarov Bassem Amin 0-1 11 Open
959 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 2pm chess.com INT 5 Bassem Amin Keith Khumalo 1-0 37 Open
960 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 2pm chess.com INT 4 Bassem Amin Cristi Machidon 1-0 34 Open
961 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 10am chess.com INT 4 Bassem Amin Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien 0-1 37 Open
962 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 2pm chess.com INT 3 Artak Manukian Bassem Amin 0-1 32 Open
963 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 10am chess.com INT 2 Rubens Cezila Jr Bassem Amin 0-1 77 Open
964 2020-08-04 Titled Tue 4th Aug 10am chess.com INT 1 Bassem Amin Artem Koval 1-0 23 Open
965 2020-07-25 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 2.3 Gawain C B Maroroa Jones Bassem Amin 1-0 44 Open
966 2020-07-25 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 2.2 Bassem Amin Gawain C B Maroroa Jones 0-1 38 Open
967 2020-07-25 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 2.1 Gawain C B Maroroa Jones Bassem Amin 1/2-1/2 62 Open
968 2020-07-24 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 1.3 Bassem Amin Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 1-0 35 Open
969 2020-07-24 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 1.2 Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant Bassem Amin 0-1 47 Open
970 2020-07-24 ACP ChessBase KO 2020 PlayChess INT 1.1 Bassem Amin Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant 1-0 40 Open
971 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 8 Hans Moke Niemann Bassem Amin 1-0 30 Open
972 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 7 Bassem Amin Vuk Djordjevic 1-0 32 Open
973 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 6 Bassem Amin Simon K Williams 1-0 36 Open
974 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 5 Raunak Sadhwani Bassem Amin 1-0 29 Open
975 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 4 Read Samadov Bassem Amin 1/2-1/2 63 Open
976 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 3 Bassem Amin Aleksander Hnydiuk 1-0 28 Open
977 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 2 Petro Golubka Bassem Amin 0-1 43 Open
978 2020-07-21 Titled Tuesday 21st July chess.com INT 1 Bassem Amin Maksim Zhukov 1-0 18 Open
979 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 9 Bassem Amin Robert Hovhannisyan 1/2-1/2 52 Open
980 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 8 Rasmus Svane Bassem Amin 0-1 47 Open
981 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 7 Bassem Amin Volodymyr Onyshchuk 1/2-1/2 60 Open
982 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 6 Anastasia Bodnaruk Bassem Amin 0-1 78 Open
983 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 5 Momchil Petkov Bassem Amin 0-1 95 Open
984 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 4 Bassem Amin Maksim Chigaev 0-1 30 Open
985 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 3 Maxim Lugovskoy Bassem Amin 0-1 29 Open
986 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 2 Bassem Amin Armin Musovic 1-0 33 Open
987 2020-07-14 33rd Leon Blitz Open 2020 chess.com INT 10 Bassem Amin Matthias Bluebaum 1/2-1/2 42 Open
988 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 7 Victor Bologan Bassem Amin 1-0 48 Open
989 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 6 Bassem Amin Maciej Klekowski 1/2-1/2 75 Open
990 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 5 Sergey Karjakin Bassem Amin 1-0 43 Open
991 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 4 Alireza Firouzja Bassem Amin 0-1 59 Open
992 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 3 Bassem Amin Leandro Krysa 1-0 53 Open
993 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 2 Gennady Kozlov Bassem Amin 0-1 55 Open
994 2020-07-07 Titled Tuesday 7th July chess.com INT 1 Bassem Amin Joshua Altman 1-0 53 Open
995 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 9 Bassem Amin Maxim Vavulin 1-0 30 Open
996 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 8 Bassem Amin Raunak Sadhwani 0-1 59 Open
997 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 7 Alexey Sarana Bassem Amin 0-1 61 Open
998 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 6 Oleksiy Solovchuk Bassem Amin 0-1 47 Open
999 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 5 Bassem Amin Ihor Vypkhaniuk 1-0 37 Open
1000 2020-06-30 Titled Tuesday 30th June chess.com INT 4 Momchil Petkov Bassem Amin 0-1 62 Open