Bachar Kouatly a Lebanese–French chess

Chess

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 master, journalist and activist.

He played thrice for Lebanon in World Junior Chess Championship

World Junior Chess Championship

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 (1975–1977), and represented Lebanon in Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

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 at La Valleta 1980. He won at Qatar

Qatar

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 1981 (zonal) and took 14th at Toluca

Toluca

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 1982 (interzonal).

Kouatly won French Chess Championship

French Chess Championship

The French Chess Championship is the annual, national chess tournament of France. It was officially first played in 1923after the formation of the Fédération Française des Echecs in 1921. The first unofficial national tournament was played in 1880, in the Café de la Régence, where further edition...

 in 1979. He played for France in five Chess Olympiads (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, and 1992).

He was awarded the International Master title in 1975, and the Grandmaster title in 1989.

On the January 2009 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2453.

Bachar Kouatly is an editor of Europe Echecs, a French–language chess magazine.

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