Muscat, June 3 (ONA) The Oman Chess Committee launched today an online training program entitled “Learn chess with us” for the starters, beginners and intermediate classes, and will continue for the coming June and July, with the participation of 94 trainees.

The training program includes providing the basic skills of chess theoretically and practically through some training programs and competitions, and the implementation of many modern methods that rely on small games, and methods of teaching chess in an interesting and effective way for different age groups.

The first-level training also includes how to arrange the pieces on the board, the names and value of the pieces, how to transfer the pieces and the difference between legal and illegal transfers and how to capture and play on the sides and control the middle of the board. The second level includes learning about the opening and its importance and dealing with it and the meaning of the position of chess and basic transfers and attack and defense in addition to plans in the middle of game and the endings.

The program aims to spread the chess game among the various segments of society, by teaching and training starters and beginners on chess skills for free via an online virtual platform that brings players with a group of coaches using the communication program. This initiative comes in pursuit of the committee to achieve its ambitious goals by disseminating the game culture and enhancing its practice among young people, as well as raising the level of some junior players and their qualification for the local tournaments in the future after the end of the Covid 19 pandemic.

(ONA)