Saturday, April 20, 2013

Kurdistan International Chess Festival

  Kurdistan International Chess Festival


     Under the auspices of his excellency (Mr.Nechirvan Barzani ) the prim minister of KRG,
International chess Kurdistan Festival was opened at 12/12/2012 in Erbil at Saad Abdullah 's hall. After Iraqi union of chess didn't agree with Kurdistan flag being with Iraqi flag in the tournament and pulled out of tournament . A head of Kurdistan chess union Azad Saber decided to manage the tournament without them . Kawa Hafid the culture minister and Nawzad Hadi the governor of Hawler
visited the tournament. The tournament started with a huge number of players inside and outside Kurdistan some of players were  came from Hewler, Sulaimaniyah, Dahok and Kirkuk, and also some of players came from different countries such as Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Syria, Iran ...etc . 





    Three of UKH chess players participated in this tournament and one of our best chess players Rawand Hamid won the championship for Chess Blitze (3 minutes ) in the Kurdistan International Chess Festival which started on 12/12/2012 to 18/12/2012.

 Congratulation for Rawand Hamid

Hussein saber
secretary of chess club

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