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Sebbar Ali

chess player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ27579429 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sebbar Ali is a Moroccan chess International Master.

Chess career

Sebbar won the 2013 Moroccan Chess Championship, has represented his country in a number of chess olympiads, including 2004 and 2014, and played in the Chess World Cup 2013, being defeated by Sergey Karjakin in the first round.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sebbar Ali” as chess player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sebbar, chess and player.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2004, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sebbar, chess and player providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sebbar Ali”, the useful work is to connect “chess player” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27579429. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2004 and 2014.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sebbar Ali” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.