WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Society cards · Bassem Amin
Common card · Society
Bassem Amin, a Common card
Bassem Amin is an Egyptian chess grandmaster and medical doctor.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 48
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 70
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 70 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Bassem Amin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Bassem Amin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was awarded the ______ title by FIDE in 2006.
Answer
Grandmaster. He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2006. From the Bassem Amin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sooner Schooner. Sooner Schooner 51 · Bassem Amin 48 · Koulourakia 42 · Regions of Poland 39 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was awarded the Grandmaster title by FIDE in 2006.
- Amin is the highest rated Egyptian and African player and the only medical doctor to have a FIDE peak rating of 2700+.
- Amin has also won the African chess championship seven times, doing so in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2024.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bassem Amin article was read about 10,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 48 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Bassem Amin
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Bassem Amin in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Lake of the CloudsCommon · Nature · ATK 42 DEF 28
- Mentha requieniiCommon · Nature · ATK 41 DEF 29
- Regions of PolandCommon · Society · ATK 39 DEF 31
- Bill BurnsCommon · Society · ATK 50 DEF 20
- Ciaran MartinCommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 21
- Convection zoneCommon · Science · ATK 51 DEF 19
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Society cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bassem Amin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Stefan64, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
