Muscat, October 6 (ONA) - The experimental tournament for age groups and girls, which is held within the general club tournament in its third edition, and the age group club tournament in its second edition, was launched today, organized by the Oman Chess Committee which will last until October 15 with the participation of 44 teams representing 37 clubs through video conferencing.
The tournament includes the establishment of a pilot tournament for the general public and another for age groups and girls before the start of the preliminary and final qualifiers for the two tournaments, which start on October 9, with the aim of informing the participants about the tournament rules and evaluation systems via video conferencing.
The Oman Committee distributed the teams in the two championships into groups. In the General Championship, the teams were divided into 5 groups. The first group included Salalah “A”, Nizwa, Al Suwaiq, Al Bashaer “Abyad” and Quriyat. The second group included Salalah “B”, Suhar, Bahla, Saham and Al Salam. The third group included Al-Bashaer “Azraq”, Al-Nasr, Al-Rustaq, Ahli Sidab, Khasab “B” and Madha. The fourth group includes Mirbat, Salalah “C”, Ibri “B”, Al-Seeb “B”, Khasab “A” and Masirah. The fifth group included Ibri “A”, Al-Seeb (A), Oman Club, Al Orouba, Bowsher and Muscat.
As for the age groups championship, it consisted of 26 teams representing 15 clubs that were distributed into three groups that included Group A (Ibri, Al-Bashayer “Azraq”, Salalah “B”, Al-Shabab and Saham, Group B (Al-Bashayer “Abyad”, Al-Rustaq, Al-Suwaiq, Al-Salam, Madaha and Nizwa, and Group C (Salalah “A”, Suhar, Oman Club, Al Khaboura and Ahli Sidab).
The championship is one of the official tournaments that the committee has been implementing annually, and through which the committee seeks to rehabilitate and develop the levels of players and work on the continuity of training and participation by the players, as well as the participation of clubs in activating their chess sport and embracing the largest number of practitioners of different groups and ages.
(ONA)