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Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
Last but not... Well, Mohamad Al Modiahki will certainly do his best not to be "least" in this first Grand Prix Series. He is the chess pride of the Arab countries, who have awarded him a trophy for "Player of the Century".
Mohamad Al Modiahki was born June 1, 1974 in Qatar. He was the first player of his country to earn the title of Grandmaster, and is still Qatar's best player. In 1988 he finished first in the Arab Youth Under 14 for boys in Doha, Qatar 1988 and one year later he also won the under-16 section there.
Al Modiahki has participated in nine Chess Olympiads (1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2006) with an outstanding overall record of (+60,=28,-21). At the 1996 Chess Olympiad he won the gold medal for his individual performance on the first board, scoring 8/10. A performance he repeated two years later, this time with 7.5/8. In 1994 and 2002, his individual performance earned him the bronze medal.
In the Asian Teams Chess Championship in 1993 in Malaysia,
Al Modiahki won the gold medal on the first board.
He won the Arab Chess Championship on four occasions: in 1994, 1997, 2000 and 2002 (shared with Hichem Hamdouchi). He tied for first place at the International GoodRicke Open in India, 1995, and also the Benasque Open in Spain, 1997. He won the Aghadir Open in Morocco, 1997, and also ended clear first at the 1997 Tunis Open and the 1999 Andorra Open.
He played four times in the knock out stages of the FIDE World Chess Championships in Las Vegas (1999), New Delhi (2000), Moscow (2001) and Libya 2004.
In 2001 he married Grandmaster and former Women World Champion Zhu Chen, who now also plays for Qatar. Both are coached by the famous Grandmaster Victor Bologan.
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