Al-Sorayai launches the Abu Dhabi Chess Festival
Chess and mind games, with direct support and follow-up from the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, and under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company “ADNOC”, the strategic partner, and witnessing closed participation due to the Corona pandemic, for 195 players representing 49 countries, competing in 7 tournaments within the festival, with a total prize money of 40 thousand dollars .The event will be launched with the Masters' Speed Chess competitions, in which 24 elite players compete, including the Emiratis Salem Abdul Rahman and Imran Al Hosani, and the arrival of all players was completed with the presence of 12 players.
The ranking of the Masters Championship is the highest in the history of the festival since its inception in 1991, in terms of a cumulative rating of "2579 points".
Tomorrow, he will meet in the “Speedy” Masters Championship, Salem Abdul Rahman with Ukrainian Adam Tokhayev, German Daniel Friedman with French Julius Mozart, Russian Vladimir Fedoseev with Argentine Alan Pishot, Iranian Barham Maksudlo with International Federation player Vladislav Kovaev, Ukrainian Pavel Alyanov with Russian Yevgeny Romanov And India's Ronk Sadwani, "the youngest player in the tournament" with Dutchman Luke Van Willy.
While the Egyptian Bassem Amin will meet with the Filipino Oliver Demaklin, the Algerian Bilal Belhassan with the Hungarian Victor Erdos, the Serbian Ivan Ivansevich with the Romanian Vladimir Danilov, the Armenian Tigran Harutian with the Georgian Mikhailashvili, the Kazakh Rinat Jamabayev with the Armenian Shant Sergisyan, and Imran Al-Hosani with the Polish Bartosh.
It is noteworthy that the Georgian Badur Gubabva, "the title holder", apologized at the last moments, to be replaced by the French Mozart.
The professor’s tournament is held in a points system, and the winners in each stage play with each other up to the final, while the losers face each other in order until the end of the tournament.
The official opening ceremony will be held next Monday, which will be simplified, and the “Speedy” matches will be held on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with 3 rounds per day, and play will continue for four consecutive hours, while the Blitz Chess Championship for the masters will be held next Wednesday, on the last day of the competition. The festival, which includes, besides the "quick and blitz" for the masters, the Open Championship for Fast Chess, the Open Championship for Blitz Chess, the Junior Championship of Fast Chess, the Championship of the First Line of Defense for Fast Chess, which is held for the first time in honor of the first line of defense of health workers, the army and the police in honor of their efforts During the "pandemic" period, an exhibition match will be held on the sidelines of the event.
The tournament matches will be broadcast live on the website of the International Chess Federation and the Asian and Arab Federations.
The referees committee in the tournament is headed by a team of Emirati international referees, led by international referee Saeed Ahmed Al Khoury, and includes a selection of referees, they are: Mansour Khamis Al-Tamimi, Abdullah Murad Al Mazmi, and Majed Al Abdouli, in addition to the Romanian Bogdan Garbia and the Filipino Marlon Conan.
It is noteworthy that the festival, which is one of the oldest festivals in the region and the Middle East, was canceled last year due to the "pandemic", before returning again today, after being limited to fast and flash chess competitions, where classic chess is absent for the first time from the festival.Chess and mind games, with direct support and follow-up from the Abu Dhabi Sports Council, and under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company “ADNOC”, the strategic partner, and witnessing closed participation due to the Corona pandemic, for 195 players representing 49 countries, competing in 7 tournaments within the festival, with a total prize money of 40 thousand dollars .
The event will be launched with the Masters' Speed Chess competitions, in which 24 elite players compete, including the Emiratis Salem Abdul Rahman and Imran Al Hosani, and the arrival of all players was completed with the presence of 12 players.
The ranking of the Masters Championship is the highest in the history of the festival since its inception in 1991, in terms of a cumulative rating of "2579 points".
Tomorrow, he will meet in the “Speedy” Masters Championship, Salem Abdul Rahman with Ukrainian Adam Tokhayev, German Daniel Friedman with French Julius Mozart, Russian Vladimir Fedoseev with Argentine Alan Pishot, Iranian Barham Maksudlo with International Federation player Vladislav Kovaev, Ukrainian Pavel Alyanov with Russian Yevgeny Romanov And India's Ronk Sadwani, "the youngest player in the tournament" with Dutchman Luke Van Willy.
While the Egyptian Bassem Amin will meet with the Filipino Oliver Demaklin, the Algerian Bilal Belhassan with the Hungarian Victor Erdos, the Serbian Ivan Ivansevich with the Romanian Vladimir Danilov, the Armenian Tigran Harutian with the Georgian Mikhailashvili, the Kazakh Rinat Jamabayev with the Armenian Shant Sergisyan, and Imran Al-Hosani with the Polish Bartosh.
It is noteworthy that the Georgian Badur Gubabva, "the title holder", apologized at the last moments, to be replaced by the French Mozart.
The professor’s tournament is held in a points system, and the winners in each stage play with each other up to the final, while the losers face each other in order until the end of the tournament.
The official opening ceremony will be held next Monday, which will be simplified, and the “Speedy” matches will be held on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, with 3 rounds per day, and play will continue for four consecutive hours, while the Blitz Chess Championship for the masters will be held next Wednesday, on the last day of the competition. The festival, which includes, besides the "quick and blitz" for the masters, the Open Championship for Fast Chess, the Open Championship for Blitz Chess, the Junior Championship of Fast Chess, the Championship of the First Line of Defense for Fast Chess, which is held for the first time in honor of the first line of defense of health workers, the army and the police in honor of their efforts During the "pandemic" period, an exhibition match will be held on the sidelines of the event.
The tournament matches will be broadcast live on the website of the International Chess Federation and the Asian and Arab Federations.
The referees committee in the tournament is headed by a team of Emirati international referees, led by international referee Saeed Ahmed Al Khoury, and includes a selection of referees, they are: Mansour Khamis Al-Tamimi, Abdullah Murad Al Mazmi, and Majed Al Abdouli, in addition to the Romanian Bogdan Garbia and the Filipino Marlon Conan.
It is noteworthy that the festival, which is one of the oldest festivals in the region and the Middle East, was canceled last year due to the "pandemic", before returning again today, after being limited to fast and flash chess competitions, where classic chess is absent for the first time from the festival.