Muscat,(ONA) - The Oman Chess Committee announced today its readiness to launch the program of the International Chess Organizers Workshop via video call in cooperation with the International and Asian Federations, which will be held from 15 to 18 July.

Ahmed bin Darwish Al Balushi, Chairman of the Omani Chess Committee, said that the international training seminar organized by the committee this year comes within the scope of its training programs via the Internet in cooperation with the Asian Federation and the International Chess Federation to qualify a number of organizers in the Sultanate and Arab countries.

Al-Balushi added that more than 20 students from the Sultanate, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco and Somalia will participate in the training course, as the number of those who wish to participate is expected to increase during the coming period, and the course will be broadcast via the Oman Chess YouTube channel; To ensure that the largest possible segment of information is used in this field.

The training program will be broadcast on the Oman Chess channel on YouTube in order to ensure that the largest possible segment benefit from information in this field.

The Chairman of the Oman Chess Committee indicated that the sessions of the workshop include a number of important topics, including: the evaluation rules for the chess tournament program, general regulations for competitions and special tournaments, annual awards of the International Federation, tender procedures for requesting the organization of international tournaments, and a process for examining the venue of the tournaments.

The training course will be presented by the UAE international lecturer, Mahdi Abdul Rahim, who was chosen by the Asian Federation to manage the sessions and present their lectures.

(ONA)