Chess at the 2007 Arab Games

The chess events at the 2007 Pan Arab Games were held from 13 to 21 November at the Olympic Centre in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt.^[1] Twelve men's teams and nine women's teams competed separately in tournaments conducted at classical time controls (all moves in 90 minutes, plus 30 seconds increment per move).^[2] Medals were awarded to the teams scoring the highest number of board points, as well as to individual players with the best performances by percentage score on each board with at least five games played. Medals were also awarded to the best overall performances on any board by percentage score. Bronze medals were awarded for both third and fourth-place individual performances.

The men's teams played a nine-round Swiss-system tournament. Each men's team consisted of six players and matches were contested over four boards. Egypt was the only team to finish the tournament undefeated, conceding only one draw to Algeria and winning the gold medal for the second time in a row with 26 board points.^[2] Syria scored 23½ board points to win the silver medal, while Algeria finished with 20½ board points and took bronze.^[2]

The women's teams played a round robin. Each women's team consisted of four players and matches were contested over three boards. The Egyptian and Syrian teams tied for first with 17½ board points, but Egypt won the gold medal on superior match points (7½/8 vs. 6½/8 for Syria), having beaten Syria in their direct encounter. Iraq scored 13½ board points to win bronze, while defending gold medallists Algeria, which drew all three medal-winning teams in their direct encounters, scored 13 board points to finish fourth.^[3]

Eight countries sent both men's and women's teams. Lebanon only competed in the women's tournament, while Jordan, Qatar, Sudan, and Tunisia only competed in the men's tournament.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's team – overall[2]	Egypt (EGY) Essam El-Gindy Bassem Amin Ahmed Adly Mohamed Ezat Khaled Abdel Razik Walaa Sarwat	26	Syria (SYR) Adel Omearat Ahmad Hamad Imad Hakki Samir Mohamed Hanni Beitar Jwan Bakr	23½	Algeria (ALG) Aimen Rizouk Adlane Arab Saad Belouadah Mohamed Haddouche Mohamed Amine Ghafoul Djamel Ferhi	20½
Men's team – Board 1[4]	Aimen Rizouk  Algeria	85.7%	Slim Belkhodja  Tunisia	78.6%	Mohammed Al-Modiahki  Qatar	77.8%
					Essam El-Gindy  Egypt	68.8%
Men's team – Board 2[4][5]	Mohammed Al-Sayed  Qatar	87.5%	Zendan Al-Zendani  Yemen	83.3%	Oussama Bouhaddoun  Morocco	78.6%
			Abobker Elarbi  Libya	83.3%
Men's team – Board 3[4][6]	Aziz Ahmad  Iraq	91.7%	–	–	Ahmed Adly  Egypt	81.3%
	Imad Hakki  Syria	91.7%			Mokhlis El-Adnani  Morocco	50.0%
Men's team – Board 4[4][7]	Othman Moussa  United Arab Emirates	83.3%	Mohamed Haddouche  Algeria	78.6%	Samir Mohamed  Syria	77.8%
					Ibrahim Chahrani  Libya	42.9%
Men's team – Board 5[4][5]	Bashir Al-Qudaimi  Yemen	100%	–	–	Ahmad Samhouri  Jordan	68.8%
	Mohamed Nawfal  Iraq	100%			Adel Mahmoud El-Kamel  Tunisia	58.3%
Men's team – Board 6[4]	Khaled Ben Nasser  Libya	83.3%	Sami Khadar  Jordan	71.4%	Walaa Sarwat  Egypt	70.0%
					Ali Asim Obid  Sudan	66.7%
Men's team – Performance on any board[4][5]	Bashir Al-Qudaimi  Yemen	100%	–	–	Aziz Ahmad  Iraq	91.7%
	Mohamed Nawfal  Iraq	100%			Imad Hakki  Syria	91.7%
Women's team – overall[3]	Egypt (EGY) Yosra Alaa El Din[a] Mona Khaled Faridah Basta Sohair	17½	Syria (SYR) Dhuha Farha Sheryn Estif Nibal Algildah Afamia Mir Mahmoud	17½	Iraq (IRQ) Eman Hassane Al-Rufei Delbak Ibrahim Jannar Worya Mohammed Dhuha Muhsin	13½
Women's team – Board 1[6][8]	Eman Hassane Al-Rufei  Iraq	80.0%	–	–	Hayat Toubal  Algeria	62.5%
	Laila El-Amri  Morocco	80.0%			Danielle Bedrossian Ghattas  Lebanon	50.0%
Women's team – Board 2[7][8]	Amina Mezioud  Algeria	91.7%	Yosra Alaa El Din  Egypt	81.3%	Nora Mohamed Saleh  United Arab Emirates	80.0%
					Sheryn Estif  Syria	62.5%
Women's team – Board 3[6][8]	Nibal Algildah  Syria	91.7%	Khalood El-Fouloud  Libya	64.3%	Mona Khaled  Egypt	62.5%
					Hind Bahji  Morocco	58.3%
Women's team – Board 4[5][8]	Afamia Mir Mahmoud  Syria	100%	Faridah Basta Sohair  Egypt	75.0%	Dhuha Muhsin  Iraq	60.0%
					Nadhmia Abdulsalam  Yemen	58.3%
Women's team – Performance on any board[8]	Afamia Mir Mahmoud  Syria	100%	Amina Mezioud  Algeria	91.7%	Yosra Alaa El Din  Egypt	81.3%
			Nibal Algildah  Syria	91.7%

  *   Host nation (Egypt)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Syria (SYR)	4	3	3	10
2	Iraq (IRQ)	4	0	3	7
3	Egypt (EGY)*	2	2	5	9
4	Algeria (ALG)	2	2	2	6
5	Yemen (YEM)	2	1	1	4
6	Libya (LBA)	1	2	1	4
7	Morocco (MAR)	1	0	3	4
8	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	1	2
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	1	2
10	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	1	2
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	1	1	2
12	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		18	12	24	54

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