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Checkmate: Dubai makes the right moves as chess hotbed
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2/12/2025
Checkmate: Dubai makes the right moves as chess hotbed. Dubai Chess and Culture Club employs world-class facilities and top coaches as the region’s premier chess training ground.
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There are more than half a billion people who play chess around the world.
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In the UAE, chess is likewise a thriving sport with UAE and expatriate clubs organizing various
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chess tournaments and events every month.
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Dubai, in fact, remains a hotbed of chess in the region, having hosted some of the most
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prestigious chess tournaments in the world, including the World Chess Olympiad and the
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World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, as well as Arab Championships.
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One of the oldest and most popular board games, chess is played by two opponents who each
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have 16 pieces to maneuver on a 64-square checkered board.
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The ultimate goal is to checkmate the opposing king.
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Dubai Chess Club is one of the institutions spearheading UAE's efforts to promote the
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sport and develop new generations of chess masters.
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The club has one of the best training facilities in the world.
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Dubai Chess Club has been established since 1981 and since establishment they played a
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major role in promoting the game.
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We do host tournaments on a regular basis and that attracted a lot of people to try
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the game on a competitive level as well.
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We are open for all nationalities.
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What we try to do is nurture all talents, whether they are Emiratis or non-Emiratis,
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to be part of this community and to be able to spread the game and play in big tournaments
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and achieve medals for their countries.
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But of course there is also a big focus and big responsibility we have to nurture Emirati
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talents and I can say that we succeeded in that.
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The club is home to amateur and professional chess players.
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It helps both Emirati and expatriate players to develop their chess skills.
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To bring chess to the grassroots, the club also organizes seminars and workshops in different
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schools and companies.
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What Dubai Chess Club does is they try to attract young talents, nurture them, bring
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them on the competitive level so they can play for the national team and bring medals
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and achievements for the country.
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We don't only provide such services for the Emirati people, the club is also open for
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other nationalities as well.
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Some schools, we help them to have their own chess clubs and for some others what we do
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is we send our coaches to train the students while they are having a chess session or any
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sports session over there.
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As a mind sport, chess is a great way to stimulate the brain and cultivate mental alertness,
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which chess enthusiasts say is very helpful in their daily lives.
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This is also the reason why many parents send their children to attend chess classes.
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Chess is developing intelligence in kids and many benefits kids can have from chess.
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They can develop quicker.
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You know the chess game is like a life, everything you have in chess game you have in life.
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So kids without knowledge about it, they are learning some things through chess.
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There's even a lot of psychology in chess which is very interesting actually because
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sometimes the best move theoretically is not the best move in practice because of time
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limits, because of your opponent, because of your result in the tournament so far.
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So it has a lot of complex things that are most often applicable in real life, you know
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practicality, the vast number of possibilities that can happen on a chess board.
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I think we should start from schools first, encourage families.
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Most families they don't prefer their kids to play chess because there is like no good
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future for chess.
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They prefer like football for example, but actually chess improve our mind and improve
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our thinking and even improve our result a lot in university and school.
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Chess also stands out as one of the few sports that allows mixed gender competitions and
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where both young and old can compete against each other.
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It's one of a kind sport where age or physical limitations are never a hindrance.
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