Today, Friday, a chess tournament opened on Riyadh City Boulevard and its competition will continue for two days with the participation of more than 100 male and female players from different Arab countries. The tournament is organized by the General Directorate of Entertainment in cooperation with the Saudi Chess Federation Arabia. The high ones counted on their skills and experience to score the points of the first stage in the tournament, and there are four rounds left for the participants to play tomorrow in the second stage, then the winners are determined in accordance with the agreement from the first three places with the most points in accordance with the final agreement to break the tie.
The opening ceremony of the chess tournament was opened by Dr. Abdullah Al-Wahshi, President of the Saudi Arabian Chess Federation and CEO of the Asian Chess Federation, and after the first five rounds of the competition, Ahmed Adli from Egypt and Saleh Salem from the UAE, who finished 59th. in the world to participate in reaching the first place without losing Third place goes to the Egyptian Bassem Amin, ranked 44th in the world.
The prizes of the chess tournament are among the largest in the Middle East, with a total of around 800,000 Saudi Rials, where the first winner of the tournament receives a cash prize of 300,000 Rials and the second winner receives a prize of 200,000 Rials. rials, and the third winner receives an amount of 100,000. Real and cash prizes will be distributed up to tenth place.
The participants of the tournament reached the international level in the game of chess thanks to several other tournaments, including: the Qatari Muhammad Al-Madhahka, who holds the title of Grand Master (GM), and the Moroccan Muhammad Taysir, who holds the title of International Professor. “IM”, in addition to the Jordanian player Bushra Al-Shuaibi, who has the title of international professor “WIM”, and the Saudi Arabian Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, who received the title of candidate professor “CM”, and the youngest Athlete and chess player at the age of 9 Saudi Arabian participates in the tournament Saleh Al Bulaikhi.
