United Arab Emirates Chess Federation (UAECF) was established in October 1976 with the object of the spreading and development of chess game as mental and cultural sport across the United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

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UAECF took part in the opposite chess Olympiad, which was held in Libya

Libya

Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....

 as an opposition Arabic step for the organization of FIDE chess Olympiad in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 1976, where all Arab countries refused to participate. 45 countries were participating in the opposite Olympiad.
In 1977, UAECF became a member of FIDE. Later on, chess started to spread across all Emirates and chess clubs were set up in Dubai

Dubai

Dubai is a city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates . The emirate is located south of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula and has the largest population with the second-largest land territory by area of all the emirates, after Abu Dhabi...

, Sharjah

Sharjah (city)

Sharjah is the third largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates. It is located along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula.Sharjah is the seat of government of the emirate of Sharjah...

, Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi , literally Father of Gazelle, is the capital and the second largest city of the United Arab Emirates in terms of population and the largest of the seven member emirates of the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the Persian Gulf from the central western...

, Ajman

Ajman

Ajman , also spelt Ujman, is one of the seven emirates constituting the United Arab Emirates . With an area of just 260 square kilometres , Ajman is the smallest emirate by area...

, Fujairah

Fujairah

Fujairah is one of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates, and the only one on the Gulf of Oman in the country's east instead of Persian Gulf .-History:...

 and Al-Ain.
Sharjah women chess club was opened in 1991 and another club for women was affiliated with Dubai chess club in 2000.

All these clubs play a key role in the discovery and training the young talents, and later on UAECF choose the best players for the national teams, where they come for training under supervision of head coach of UAECF.

Major achievements

The son of Emirates, Saeed Ahmed Saeed (aged 12) won the world Championship U-14, held in Mexico

Mexico

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 1979 and this was the first sport achievement for UAE made by this young champion at the international level.
Saeed Ahmed Saeed returned back on 1981 to confirm his unique gift and repeat his global achievement by winning the world title U-14. Saeed was called by all Arab media as "The Arab computer".