Results of FIDE Trainer Online Seminar (Middle East) 10-12 September 2020

Report by Organizer IM & FST Sami Khader

FIDE Trainer Online Seminar for Middle East sets a record with 51 participants from 20 Arab countries

The Arab Chess Federation. together with Asia Chess Academy in Amman, Jordan, under the supervision of FIDE Trainers’ Commission, organized a very successful FIDE Trainers’ Seminar that witnessed a participation of 51 trainers from 20 Arab countries.

Held online from 10^th to 12^th of September 2020, the seminar saw very well received lectures from GM & FST Artur Yusupov, GM & FST Ivan Sokolov, GM & FT Bassem Amin, and IM & FST Sami Khader and explanation of FIDE Trainer System by FM & FT Peter Long.

The closing of the seminar was honored by the presence of FIDE President Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich and FIDE Executive Director, GM and FST Victor Bologan, who congratulated both the participants and organizer.

Speech of Arkady Dvorkovich:

“Dear friends, dear organizers of this event, warm greetings on behalf of FIDE and our FIDE Council.

I think it’s great that you are able to use opportunities provided by the current environment, not to stop chess activities but on the opposite to continue doing your best to train professionals, to train those who love chess, and who want to devote the best parts of their lives to chess. I would also like to congratulate you on this record and on your efforts to bring chess to more people.

Hopefully normal chess activities will be back soon. In some countries, tournaments started already. International tournaments are still on hold, but we are hopeful that we can restart our activities pretty soon, and your involvement, contribution, and participation will be highly valuable. I think it is very important that chess is being developed in the regions where it is still not as developed as other countries, in particular compared to European countries. But you have all the prospects to flourish, and to improve the level of chess in your countries, and FIDE is ready to help, FIDE is ready to participate and contribute in this development.

Thank you, once again for bringing us in and for sharing with us this success story.”

Speech of Victor Bologan:

“I would love to congratulate all the participants and organizers of this event.

It really is a very nice seminar, with the massive participation of practically all Arab nations, representing 20 federations. I, as a coach and a player, know that it is extremely important to organize such events because a good coach can bring many good players to the game. This seminar was very efficient as it was organized in Arabic language in addition to English. An idea which I, as a coach from Qatar, liked very much.

I want to thank FIDE and its President for the continuous systematical support for this kind of events and for continental and national federations.

I want to wish you good luck, thank you so much for the very good organizing”.

Speech of Sheikh Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Mualla:

“Thank you, Mr. Arkady and Mr. Bologan, for joining us in this seminar.

We, Arab Chess Federation, would also like seize the opportunity of Mr. Arkady’s presence to extend our appreciation and thanks to FIDE for the continuous support and great efforts in developing chess in our region”.

FIDE ID	Name	Country	Proposed Title
7910100	Idjeri, Yanis	Algeria	FI
10601058	Samy, Amro	Egypt	FT
10687203	Essameldin, Aya	Egypt	DI
10614389	Hamido, Mostafa	Egypt	FI
10687238	Hassanen Fathy, Hazem	Egypt	DI
4800699	Basim Jbara Masood Beni Zaid	Iraq	FI
4801911	Haleem, H. A. AL-Jebawy	Iraq	FI
4819438	Iman Yousif Thannoon	Iraq	DI
4804074	Amjad M Alwan	Iraq	NI
4800370	Ammar Abduljabbar Oleiwi Al Khazaali	Iraq	FI
4806140	Habeeb, Kairullah Lafta	Iraq	FI
4801040	Al-Saffar, Araz Basim Mohammed S	Iraq	FT
4812956	Sarkuot Mohammed Qasim	Iraq	FI
4801202	Shihab Ahmad Jasim Alhasan	Iraq	FI
4803191	Ahmed, Nasir	Iraq	FI
8103178	Ahmad, Al Khatib	Jordan	FT
8118736	Ehab Mizyan	Jordan	NI
8111626	Lana Haymoor	Jordan	DI
8104239	Loay, Sameer	Jordan	FI
21518840	Alrehaili, Ahmed Abdullah S	Saudi Arabia	FI
21500088	Alem, Ali Hussain	Saudi Arabia	NI
21518459	Talal Murdy Alzahrani	Saudi Arabia	NI
9201262	Elnaami, Hashem A.K.	Libya	FI
9200711	Alharari, Mohammed Alsouri	Libya	NI
5300401	EL Mahmoud, AbdulAziz	Lebanon	FT
5300681	Maasarani, Mahmoud	Lebanon	FI
5300746	Shihab, Khaled	Lebanon	NI
5303478	Ghnatios, Ralph	Lebanon	FI
5300380	El Jawich, Amro	Lebanon	FT
5302315	Hamad, Mohammad	Lebanon	FI
9005153	Ben Yahya, Larbi	Morocco	FT
9000410	El Adnani, Mokliss	Morocco	FT
19600100	Boidiya, Sidi	Mauritania	FI
19600097	Sabar Ethmane Daouda	Mauritania	NI
22007989	Al Ghafri, Sulaiman	Oman	DI
11502991	MohammedS.S.Ashour	Palestine	FI
12100293	Nezad, Husein Aziz	Qatar	FI
16100107	Mohamed, Mohamed Abdulla	Somalia	NI
12200190	Elobeid, Asim Ali	Sudan	FI
7607032	Alhalak, Mohammad	Syria	DI
7602324	Alkara, Khaled	Syria	FI
7603126	Rafee, Mohd Hayel	Syria	FI
5500796	Zaibi, Amir	Tunisia	FI
9400303	Fahmi, Amjad	Yemen	FI
10300740	Alajmi, Abdulrahman	Kuwait	DI