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Rodwell Makoto vs Bassem Amin

Rodwell Makoto vs Bassem Amin

African Games, Casablanca, Morocco, 2019

With one world-class GM (Bassem Amin) and one very strong GM (Ahmed Adly), Egypt dominated the African Games, winning gold in all five competitions (a mixed team event, and open and women’s events in both rapid and blitz).The text game is between Amin and an IM from Zimbabwe, in the open blitz event which Amin won with a perfect 9/9.

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