Morteza Hemmasian
Iranian chess player (born 1942)
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Morteza Hemmasian (Persian: مرتضی حمصیان; born 1942) is an Iranian chess player, Iranian Chess Championship winner (1963).
Biography
During the early 1960s, Morteza Hemmasian was one of Iran's leading chess players. He won the Iranian Chess Championship in 1963. In 1969, Hemmasian competed in the World Chess Championship West Asian Zonal tournament in Singapore, where he finished in eighth place.[1]
Hemmasian represented Iran in the Chess Olympiad::[2]
- In 1962, he played at the first board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+5, =5, -9).
