Morteza Mahjoob
Number of games in database: 182
Years covered: 2000 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2414
Highest rating achieved in database: 2546
Overall record: +56 -54 =48 (50.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      24 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (24)      B22 B30 B33 B27 B96  French Defense (12)      C05 C03 C07 C09 C00  French Tarrasch (10)      C05 C03 C07 C09 C08  Queen's Pawn Game (9)      E00 D02 E10  Caro-Kann (6)      B17 B10 B19 B14 B16  King's Indian (4)      E97 E92 E81	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (36)      B40 B43 B42 B27 B22  Sicilian Kan (15)      B43 B42 B41  Caro-Kann (11)      B10 B18 B12 B13 B14  Dutch Defense (11)      A81 A86 A85 A88  Nimzo Indian (5)      E21 E45 E30 E36 E20  Reti System (4)      A04

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   36th Olympiad (2004)
   6th Dubai Open (2004)
   Asian Chess Championship (2005)
   37th Chess Olympiad (2006)
   Asian Individual Championship (2007)
   2008 Olympiad (2008)
   8th Asian Continental Chess Championship (2009)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   16th Asian Games (Men Teams) (2010)

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MORTEZA MAHJOOB (born Mar-20-1980) Iran [what is this?] Grandmaster. In August 2009, Mahjoob broke Kiril D Georgiev 's world simul record by playing 500 boards achieving a result of +397 =90 -13 for a winning percentage of 88.4%.* This record stood until 2010 when Israeli GM Alik Gershon in turn broke the record. * http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Wikipedia article: Morteza Mahjoub

page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 182  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Degraeve vs M Mahjoob   ½-½ 64 2000 34th Olympiad B40 Sicilian 2. De Vreugt vs M Mahjoob   1-0 66 2000 World Junior B42 Sicilian, Kan 3. M Mahjoob vs Akobian   ½-½ 34 2000 Wch U20 D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 4. S Halkias vs M Mahjoob   1-0 35 2000 World Junior A80 Dutch 5. A Iljushin vs M Mahjoob   1-0 43 2000 World Junior A80 Dutch 6. M Mahjoob vs G Vescovi   0-1 76 2000 34th Olympiad B53 Sicilian 7. E Vladimirov vs M Mahjoob   ½-½ 57 2000 Asia Cities-ch 12th A81 Dutch 8. M Mahjoob vs O Annageldyev   0-1 37 2001 Asian Championships B30 Sicilian 9. O Annageldyev vs M Mahjoob 1-0 26 2001 open B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 10. M Darban vs M Mahjoob   0-1 34 2001 Asian Candidates B20 Sicilian 11. M Mahjoob vs R Abbasi   1-0 28 2001 ch-IRI C42 Petrov Defense 12. E Ghaem Maghami vs M Mahjoob 1-0 19 2001 Zone 3.1a A04 Reti Opening 13. Zhang Pengxiang vs M Mahjoob   0-1 32 2001 Asian Championships B40 Sicilian 14. M Mahjoob vs T Vakhidov   0-1 29 2001 open C07 French, Tarrasch 15. Rublevsky vs M Mahjoob   1-0 58 2001 World Teams B40 Sicilian 16. M Mahjoob vs M Vahidi   1-0 51 2001 ch-IRI B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 17. M Mahjoob vs S Alavi   1-0 21 2001 Asian Candidates B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation 18. M Mahjoob vs P Mahmoud   1-0 39 2001 ch-IRI C05 French, Tarrasch 19. S Mohammad vs M Mahjoob   0-1 83 2001 Zone 3.1a A86 Dutch 20. V Magai vs M Mahjoob   ½-½ 54 2001 Asian Championships A80 Dutch 21. M Mahjoob vs P Kotsur   0-1 58 2001 open B22 Sicilian, Alapin 22. M Mahjoob vs Z Gyimesi   0-1 36 2001 World Teams C53 Giuoco Piano 23. H R Mohammadi vs M Mahjoob   0-1 47 2001 ch-IRI B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 24. M Mahjoob vs A Mallahi   0-1 43 2001 Zone 3.1a B33 Sicilian 25. M Mahjoob vs Wu Wenjin   ½-½ 42 2001 Asian Championships B32 Sicilian  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 182

Aug-10-09    Joshka: Good luck to this fellow, attempting to break the simul record in Iran this Thursday!! 500 players!....they say he needs to win 80% of the games to qualify for the record. Aug-10-09    Augalv: Official website: http://www.iran500.ir/en/home.html Aug-17-09    Augalv: Mahjoob did it. http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/m... Aug-31-09    Whitehat1963: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Impressive display of endurance. Aug-31-09    wordfunph: Congrats Iranian GM Mahjoob Morteza for smashing the Guinness simul chess world record against 500 with +397 =90 -13 or 88.4%! Aug-31-09    Open Defence: wow, I thought he might go the way of Ostap Bender.... Sep-04-09    BIDMONFA: Morteza Mahjoob MAHJOOB, Morteza http://www.bidmonfa.com/mahjoob_mor... _ Jul-08-10    GrahamClayton: Interesting article about Mahjoob's attempts to raise the profile of chess in Iran: http://www.google.com/hostednews/af... Aug-29-10    GrahamClayton: <wordfunph>Congrats Iranian GM Mahjoob Morteza for smashing the Guinness simul chess world record against 500 with +397 =90 -13 or 88.4%! <wordfunph>, Here is an article about the exhibition: http://www.payvand.com/news/09/aug/... Aug-29-10    SugarDom: GM Jayson Gonzales will attempt to break the record with 600 opponents this coming sep 11.

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