Pakistan Open Chess Championship Begins
Pakistan Open Chess Championship Begins: Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to have originated in India sometime before the 7th century.
Pakistan Open Chess Championship began on Wednesday in Pakistan’s coastal city. According to Sindh Chess Association, there are Under-8, Under-10, Under-12, Under-16 and Open Youth categories in the championship, which consists of seven 30-minute league rounds.
Besides Karachi, chess players from Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur as well as Lahore, Sahiwal, Peshawar, Islamabad and Gilgit-Baltistan are also participating in the championship.
The students of various educational institutions are also participating in the championship. The Pakistani Chess Championship is organized by the Chess Federation of Pakistan. Prior to 1970 four championships were held in West Pakistan without participation by players from East Pakistan.
This changed in 1970 with the founding of the Pakistan National Chess Federation, which for the first time incorporated players and executive members from both parts of Pakistan, and the national championship that year was held in Chittagong.
In 1977 the name of the organization was changed to the Chess Federation of Pakistan. The first Pakistani Women’s Chess Championship was held in 2000.
The Chess Federation of Pakistan (CFP) is national governing body to promote and develop Chess in Pakistan. It organizes the Pakistani Chess Championship. The federation is affiliated with the World Chess Federation, Asian Chess Federation and Pakistan Sports Board.
The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.
FIDE was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in June 1999. Chess was made its Asian Games debut at Doha 2006.
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