Essam El-Gindy

Essam El-Gindy
Full name	Essam A Elgendy
Country	Egypt
Born	14 July, 1966, Cairo, Egypt
Title	Grandmaster (2008)
FIDE rating	2407 (September 2024)
Peak rating	2527 (October 2008)

Essam El-Gindy or Essam El-Gendy is an Egyptian chess Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.

In November 2014, he is the fifth highest ranked active player in Africa and number three among active players in Egypt.

Career

• Champion of the African Zone three times in a row since 1996 .* Qualified to the World Cup for men seven times from 1997 to 2013
• Champion of the continent of Africa alone in 2003 Nigeria - Abuja
• Arab champion alone at 2003- Egypt - Cairo - Maadi .
• Champion of Egypt, and ranked number one for many years to the early nineties until 2005.
• Winner of 2 Golds Medal in individual and team, African Games in Algeria in 2007 .
• Victory over former world champion Ponomariov in the first game in the World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk 2007.
• Arab champion at 2009- Tunisia .
• Champion of the international Francophones chess 2014
• Played for the Egyptian men team the winner of Gold medal of category B in Tromso chess olympiad 2014.

Trainer

• Coach in Manhattan and Marshall Chess clubs, New York 1999-2000
• Coach in Trinity , Buckley and Browning schools, in New York City 2000-2002
• Assistant coach with the famous U.S. coach Bruce Pandolfini and WIM Shernaz Kennedy for the development of schools for children Reddlen 2001-2002
• Coach in UAE ALAIN CHESS CLUB 2009-2010

External links

• Essam El-Gindy rating card at FIDE
• Essam El-Gindy player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Chess Olympiad record at olimpbase.org