Wikipedia / African Chess Championship
Wikipedia / African Chess Championship
The first African Chess Championship was played in 1998. Ibrahim Hasan Labib and Mohamed Tissir both shared first place with 7/10, but the former took the title.
The 2007 championship was the FIDE Zone 4 qualifier for the Chess World Cup 2007, the next stage in the 2010 World Championship. Six players qualified for the 2007 World Cup: IM Robert Gwaze (Zimbabwe), IM Pedro Aderito (Angola), IM Essam El Gindy (Egypt), GM Bassem Amin (Egypt), GM Ahmed Adly (Egypt), and FM Khaled Abdel Razik (Egypt).
Winners
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! Year !! City !! Winner !! Women's winner |- | 1998 || Cairo || || |- | 1999 || Agadir || || |- | 2001 || Cairo || || |- | 2003 || Abuja || || |- | 2005 || Lusaka || || |- | 2007 || Windhoek || || |- | 2009 || Tripoli || || |- | 2011 || Maputo || || |- | 2013 || Tunis || || |- | 2014 || Windhoek || || |- | 2015 || Cairo || || |- | 2016 || Kampala || || |- | 2017 || Oran || || |- | 2018 || Livingstone || || |- | 2019 || Hammamet || || |- | 2020 ||colspan="3"| Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa |- | 2021 || Lilongwe || || |- | 2022 || Lagos || || |- |2023 |Cairo | | |- |2024 |Accra | | |- |2025 |Cairo | | |- |2026 |Jwaneng | | |}
Multiple winners – Open
Multiple winners – Women
Wins by country – Open
Wins by country – Women
Notes
GM Ahmed Adly is the 2021 African Individual Chess Champion. WIM Jesse February is crowned 2021 African Individual Chess Champion.
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