Dubai: Eight members of the Filipino Chess Players League UAE have passed a chess trainer’s examination held at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.
Rocky Pabalan, Ernesto Yap and Jobannie Tabada were awarded the FI title, while Gary Flores and Danilo Reyes were awarded the NI title, reported Gulf News.
Alexies Byron Dysangco, Bennyl Ramos and Ronaldo Santos were awarded the DI title. Egyptian Mohammad Ahmad Shafik Badawi received the NI title to complete the list of new instructors.
The Dubai Chess and Culture Club has also announced that 13 Emiratis have recently passed the exam and are set to be confirmed as international chess instructors during the 42nd World Chess Olympiad in September in Baku, Azerbaijan, said the news portal.
Fide Master (FM) Saeed Ishaq and Woman International Master (WIM) Amna Nouman, both members of the UAE national team, along with the UAE’s top junior player International Master (IM) Ebrahim Sultan, lead the cast of new UAE chess instructors after completing a rigorous three-day seminar and passing the trainer’s examination held at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club.
“A crucial element in our efforts to promote chess in the grassroots and nurture new talents is the development of qualified trainers and instructors,” Najib Saleh, the club’s Technical Director, reportedly said. “With the new batch of Fide-certified instructors, which include key players such as Saeed Ishaq, Amna Nouman and Ibrahim Sultan, we are strengthening the ranks of Emirati chess coaches and instructors and are looking forward to providing more quality training and chess instruction to our students.”
Based on their performance during the seminar and scores in the exam, the participants were awarded any of four titles: Fide Trainer (FT), Fide Instructor (FI), National Instructor (NI) and Developmental Instructor (DI). The titles will be confirmed by the presidential board of the International Chess Federation, also known by its French acronym Fide, during the Olympiad, a biennial global competition where the UAE Men’s and Women’s national tea will also be competing against more than a hundred countries for one of the most coveted championships in the sport, the report pointed out.
The trainer’s seminar was conducted on July 11-13 by prolific Greek author Grandmaster (GM) Efstratios Grivas, who is also a Fide Senior Trainer (FST) and Secretary of the Fide Trainers’ Commission. There were 24 participants in the seminar, reported Gulf News.
Ishaq and Nouman were awarded the FI title, while Sultan was awarded the NI title along with Woman Fide Masters (WFM) Amal Abdulaziz and Eman Abdulaziz, Woman Candidate Master (WCM) Jamila Ahli Juma, Fatima Abdulghani, Ali Abdulla, Abdulaziz Ali, AH Almarazeeq Esa and Haifa Sultan. Obtaining the DI title were Saleh Abdulaziz and Jasim Nour Saleh, said the news portal.
GM Davorin Kuljasevic of Croatia and IM Iva Videnova of Bulgaria, both members of the club’s coaching staff, also took part in the seminar and were awarded the FT title.
