Chess Training Empowers School Coaches

MUSCAT, FEB 20

The Oman Chess Committee organised a chess training course for school coaches, in collaboration with the Oman School Sports Association, from February 19 to 21, at the Amal Club and was supervised by Bashir al Qadimi, coach of Oman national chess team.

With18 participants, the course covers several topics, including school chess and the importance of teaching it in schools, mechanisms for discovering talented individuals in schools, reviewing physical mini-games related to chess and strategic principles for trainees, teaching children preventive thinking, benefiting from computers in education, organising tournaments for children, ideas for some openings, skills for training children on openings, defence, psychologically, preoperatively reading the game, and the law of the young trainee.

The course will continue over five days through several practical and theoretical sessions that will focus on training methods and techniques for different age groups, selecting talented students in schools, and some educational methods and techniques for openings, plans, endgame positions, and playing strategies related to children.

The earlier committee course is part of its training programmes to spread the game of chess in schools. The programme was launched in 2018 in more than 100 schools in all governorates of the Sultanate of Oman and included more than 2000 students.

This is the first training course this year, which aims to train Omani trainers, especially in schools. The committee also aims to create a broad base of trainers from different governorates of the Sultanate of Oman who are capable of training and managing game activities in clubs, centres, and schools, discovering and preparing players capable of participating and competing in the tournaments supervised by the committee.