Shrook Wafa | |
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Country |
Egypt FIDE (2024) [a] |
Born | 13 May 1997 | (age 27)
Title | Woman Grandmaster (2013) |
Peak rating | 2182 (August 2019) |
Shrook Wafa (born 13 May 1997) [2] is an Egyptian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.
She won the Women's African Chess Championship in 2013. [3] Thanks to this achievement she earned the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM) [4] and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015. [5]
She has won the Women's African Chess Championship a further three times: 2014, 2016 and 2019. [6]
In the Women's World Chess Championship 2015 she was knocked out in the first round by the second seed Ju Wenjun.
Her sister Shahenda Wafa also is a Woman Grandmaster.