Yousof Safvat
| Yousof Safvat | |
|---|---|
 Yousof Safvat in 1960s | |
| Country |  Iran |
| Born | 15 February 1940 Tehran, Iran |
| Died | 29 January 2003 (aged 72) Tehran, Iran |
| Title | The first Iran chess champion |
| FIDE rating | 2270 (May 2020) [Inacative][1] |
Yousof (Younnus, Younus) Safvat (born 15 February 1940 in Tehran - death 29 January 2003[citation needed] in Tehran) was an Iranian chess player. He was the first official chess champion and national master of Iran.
He won five times Iranian Chess Championship (1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1965), and represented Iran in Chess Olympiads at Moscow 1956, Munich 1958, Varna 1962, Tel Aviv 1964, and Siegen 1970.[2][3]
References[]
- ^ Yousof Safvat Rating and Chess Federation history
- ^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Men's Chess Olympiads: Yousof Safvat". OlimpBase. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
- ^ "Younnus Safvat chess games". 365Chess. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
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