Iranian Chess Championship
The Iranian Chess Championship is the yearly national chess championship of Iran. Below is the gallery of champions, notice the gap between 1980 and 1990 (1359 and 1369 according to the Iranian calendar), when chess was forbidden in Iran. There is also a gap between 1978 and 1980 (1356 and 1358) because of the Iran Revolution.
Champions
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# Gregorian Iranian Winner 1 1955/1956 1334 Yousof Safvat 2 1956/1957 1335 Yousof Safvat 3 1957/1958 1336 Yousof Safvat 4 1958/1959 1337 Houshang Mashian 5 1959/1960 1338 Yousof Safvat 6 1960/1961 1339 Robert Lalazarian 7 1961/1962 1340 Touraj Ebrahimi 8 1962/1963 1341 Morteza Hemmasian 9 1963/1964 1342 Mansour Jelveh 10 1964/1965 1343 Keikhosro Kahyaei 11 1966/1967 1345 Mohammad Hossein Farboud 12 1967/1968 1346 Mohammad Hossein Farboud 13 1968/1969 1347 Nasser Hemmasi 14 1969/1970 1348 Nasser Hemmasi 15 1970/1971 1349 Nasser Hemmasi 16 1971/1972 1350 Khosro Harandi 17 1973/1974 1352 Mehrshad Sharif 18 1974/1975 1353 Mehrshad Sharif 19 1975/1976 1354 Mehrshad Sharif 20 1976/1977 1355 Mehrshad Sharif 21 1977/1978 1356 Khosro Harandi 22 1979/1980 1358 Mehrshad Sharif 23 1980/1981 1359 Mehrshad Sharif 24 1990/1991 1369 Khosro Harandi 25 1991/1992 1370 Hadi Momeni 26 1992/1993 1371 Hossein Aryanejad 27 1993/1994 1372 Hadi Momeni 28 1994/1995 1373 Esmaeil Safarzadeh 29 1995/1996 1374 Hossein Aryanejad 30 1996/1997 1375 Mohammad Deljou 31 1997/1998 1376 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 32 1998/1999 1377 Hassan Abbasifar 33 1999/2000 1378 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 34 2000/2001 1379 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 35 2001/2002 1380 Elshan Moradi 36 2002/2003 1381 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 37 2003/2004 1382 Mohsen Ghorbani 38 2004/2005 1383 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 39 2005/2006 1384 Morteza Mahjoub 40 2006/2007 1385 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 41 2007/2008 1386 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 42 2008/2009 1387 Morteza Mahjoub 43 2009/2010 1388 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 44 2010/2011 1389 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 45 2011/2012 1390 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami
Asghar Golizadeh46 2012/2013 1391 Asghar Golizadeh 47 2013/2014 1392 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 48 2014/2015 1393 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 49 2015/2016 1394 Alireza Firouzja 50 2016/2017 1395 Parham Maghsoodloo 51 2017/2018 1396 Parham Maghsoodloo 52 2018/2019 1397 Alireza Firouzja 53 2019/2020 1398 Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami 54 2020/2021 1399 Parham Maghsoodloo 55 2021/2022 1401 Bardiya Daneshvar 56 2022/2023 1402 Amirreza Pour Agha Bala
Women
# Gregorian Iranian Winner 1 1974/1975 1353 Shokooh Soroush-Azar[2] 2 1976/1977 1355 Shokooh Soroush-Azar 3 1977/1978 1356 Shokooh Soroush-Azar 4 2000/2001 1379 Shadi Paridar 5 2003/2004 1382 Shadi Paridar 6 2004/2005 1383 Shadi Paridar 7 2006/2007 1385 Shadi Paridar 8 2007/2008 1386 Atousa Pourkashiyan 9 2008/2009 1387 Atousa Pourkashiyan 10 2009/2010 1388 Atousa Pourkashiyan 11 2010/2011 1389 Ghazal Hakimifard 12 2011/2012 1390 Atousa Pourkashiyan 13 2012/2013 1391 Mitra Hejazipour 14 2013/2014 1392 Atousa Pourkashiyan 15 2014/2015 1393 Atousa Pourkashiyan 16 2015/2016 1394 Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 17 2016/2017 1395 Vesal Hamedinia 18 2017/2018 1396 Mobina Alinasab 19 2018/2019 1397 Anousha Mahdian 20 2019/2020 1398 Anahita Zahedifar
References
- Results from The Week in Chess: 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008.
- Results from iranchess.com: 2004
- Results from ChessBase: 2008
- Results of Women's Championship from Chess-Results: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014
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