ISLAMABAD:
Zaman Sohail of the Larger Training Fee (HEC) and Punjab’s Fareeha Siddiq emerged because the champions within the males’s and ladies’s classes of the Nationwide Chess Championship, held on the Pakistan Sports activities Advanced.
Organised by the Chess Federation of Pakistan, the event featured greater than 250 gamers from throughout the nation competing in a number of classes. The occasion highlighted a excessive commonplace of play, with contributors demonstrating talent, technique, and aggressive spirit all through the championship.
Within the thirty fourth Nationwide Males’s Chess Championship, Zaman Sohail secured the title with a powerful tally of 5 factors within the closing spherical. Punjab’s M. Zorais Shabkhez completed as runner-up with 4.5 factors, whereas HEC’s A.R. Akhtar additionally scored 4.5 factors and claimed third place on the idea of tiebreak.
In the meantime, within the tenth Girls’s Nationwide Chess Championship, Fareeha Siddiq delivered a exceptional unbeaten efficiency to clinch the title with 10.5 factors. Zainabia Wasif completed second with 9 factors, whereas Javeria secured third place with eight factors.
The closing ceremony was attended by Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry as chief visitor. Different dignitaries included Wajeeha Qamar, Rana Ahsan Afzal, Mohyuddin Wani, Syed Zeeshan Naqvi, Raja Gohar Iqbal, and Afzal Butt, amongst others, who praised the gamers and organisers for selling chess in Pakistan.
