Slim Belkhodja is a Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

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Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 Grandmaster (2002).

In 1985 he won the 58th Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925....

. In 2001, came first in the Arab Chess Championship

Arab Chess Championship

-Winners:-References:* Winners of the 1984 edition * Results 1999 from arabicnews.com * Results 2001 from tunishebdo.com * Homepage of the 2002 edition: * Results from TWIC: , , , , * Results 2006 from chess-results.com * Hichem Hamdouchi biography...

. He took part in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

FIDE World Chess Championship 2002

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2002 was held in Moscow, Russia. The first six rounds were played between 27 November and 14 December 2001, and the final match started on 16 January and ended on 23 January 2002...

, but was knocked out in the first round by Rafael Vaganian

Rafael Vaganian

Rafael Artemovich Vaganian, also transliterated Vahanyan is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play...

. In 2004, he tied for first with Murtas Kazhgaleyev

Murtas Kazhgaleyev

Murtas Kazhgaleyev is a chess Grandmaster from Kazakhstan.He played for Kazakhstan in the Chess Olympiads of 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2008. In 2004, he tied for first with Slim Belkhodja in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux. In 2006 he won the men's rapid tournament in the 15th Asian...

 in the 27th Syre Memorial in Issy les Moulineaux. He played in the Chess World Cup 2005

Chess World Cup 2005

The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. It was held as a 128-player tournament, between 27 November and 17 December 2005, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....

 and was knocked out in the first round by Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov

Sergei Tiviakov is a naturalised Dutch chess Grandmaster.Tiviakov won the Dutch Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, in Plovdiv, he won the European Individual Chess Championship with 8.5/11....

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Belkhodja played for Tunisia in the Chess Olympiad

Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other. The event is organised by FIDE, which selects the host nation.-Birth of the Olympiad:The first Olympiad was unofficial...

s of 1982, 1984, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008.

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