Sarasadat Khademalsharieh Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/sarasadat-khademalsharieh/ Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:49:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://irannewsdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-iranlogo-32x32.png Sarasadat Khademalsharieh Archives - Iran News Daily https://irannewsdaily.com/tag/sarasadat-khademalsharieh/ 32 32 Khademalsharieh named as FIDE Athletes Commission https://irannewsdaily.com/2021/03/khademalsharieh-named-as-fide-athletes-commission/ https://irannewsdaily.com/2021/03/khademalsharieh-named-as-fide-athletes-commission/#respond Wed, 03 Mar 2021 08:49:47 +0000 https://irannewsdaily.com/?p=124825 TEHRAN (Iran News) – The International Chess Federation announced the composition of the newly created Athletes Commission. Sarasadat Khademalsharieh from Iran has been named as FIDE Athletes Commission. By the deadline of Dec. 21, FIDE had received nine candidacies for the 10 elected positions. Therefore, as decided by the FIDE Council, voting was not required […]

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]]> TEHRAN (Iran News) – The International Chess Federation announced the composition of the newly created Athletes Commission. Sarasadat Khademalsharieh from Iran has been named as FIDE Athletes Commission.

By the deadline of Dec. 21, FIDE had received nine candidacies for the 10 elected positions. Therefore, as decided by the FIDE Council, voting was not required and these nine candidates made it directly into the Commission.

Along with these athletes who presented their candidacy, four other members were appointed by the FIDE Council: IM Alina Kashlinskaya, IM Ekaterina Atalik, IM Jomo Pitterson, and IM Odion Aikhoje.

The FIDE Council reserves itself the right to appoint two more members, in order to reach a total composition of 15 representatives of the players as stipulated in the regulations.

The term of election and appointment of all members will be four years, but exceptionally the first term is limited to two years, until the 2022 FIDE Congress.

Iran’s Sarasadat Khademalsharieh finished the Belt and Road World Chess Women Summit, 2020 runner-up. Also, She claimed a silver at the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships 2018 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The competitions are being held in Manege, the largest exhibition space in central Saint Petersburg from Dec. 25 to Dec. 31

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 Iranian chess grandmaster Sarasadat Khademalsharieh put in a dazzling performance by finishing runner-up in the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Competition 2018, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from Dec. 29-31.

Khademalsharieh snatched the second place, winning the $25,000 prize, in a heated rivalry among 204 female chess grandmasters.

Chinese chess grandmaster Ju Wenjun won the first prize in women’s tournament, with maybe some scary moments in the very last round. She finished a full point ahead of Khademalsharieh and the Russian grandmaster Aleksandra Goryachkina, who stood at the third place.

Three other Iranian chess players, namely Parham Maghsoodloo, Alireza Firouzja, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami represented the Islamic Republic in men’s section, where the worlds strongest chess players vied for titles.

Firouzja ranked sixth at the end of the competition, where Daniil Dubov from Russia won the first place.

Iranian players have shown an outstanding presence in international competitions during the past years.

Earlier in June, junior Iranian male chess player Bardiya Daneshvar put on commendable performances at the second edition of FIDE World Cadets Rapid and Blitz Championships in Belarus, snatching the gold medal in the blitz division of the competitions.

According to the latest FIDE ratings, in the ranking of countries, Iran has moved one place up compared to last month with 2555 points, sitting in the 25th place.

The ranking is measured by the average rating of the country’s top 10 players. Maghsoodloo stands at the world’s 4th place with 2,688 points in the juniors’ standard category. The teen player, Firouzja (2607) stands in 12th spot in the same category. With 2470 points, Khademalsharieh gained the rank of 19th in the standard women’s section in the December ratings of FIDE.

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