Muscat, ONA) - Saeed bin Ahmed Fadel, a former player of our national chess team and player of Salalah Club, received the Norm for International Arbitration after passing the International Chess Referees Tournament that was held online.

During his career as a player, Saeed Fadel made a number of achievements, including third place in the 2016 World Amateur Chess Championship, participation in the World Chess Olympiad in Tromsowa, Norway 2014 and participation in the 2012 Asian Chess Cup.

The course included the introduction to international specifications for chess tools such as pieces, boards, clocks, tables and other chess tools, in addition to learning about the laws of the game that include the laws and systems of classic or regular chess, laws and systems of fast chess, laws and systems of blitz chess. It also included the laws of international titles in terms of players, referees and organizers, tiebreakers in the Swiss system, the tiebreaker system in the league system, fair play laws and penalties related to cheating and its tools, international classification and how players are classified according to the points gained from each match and the classification of players.

(ONA)