The Emirati international professor, and the first-ranked local, Salem Abdul Rahman, swept the elite of world chess championships in the "Tuesday Challenge" championship, organized by the global chess site "Chase Com", and plays with the virtual flash chess system.
Salem managed to win in eight confrontations in the first tournament held in the framework of the home stone, and drew only once in the ninth and last round with the fourth world number one Russian Ian Nebomychy, to win in the last championship title.
A group of the best players in the world participated in the championship, led by the world top ranked chess player, international professor Hikaru Nakamura, in addition to the three-time world chess champion Alexander the international Professor Alexander Grichuk, the Dutch champion Anish Jerry, and the fourth world class Russian Ian Nepomyachi.
Salem appeared with a great technical level that was accurate in the calculations, as he managed competently to manage his most difficult confrontations in the championship, against the great international professor Vladimir Fedosev, after the Russian got a good advantage in the middle of the round, but he managed to turn the match advantage in his favor in the time pressure stage end of the match.
In the last round, the golden boy Salem Abd Al-Rahman got an excellent advantage in his match with the fourth world seed Russian Nebomyachy, but he influenced the non-risk, as the result of the tie was sufficient to achieve the championship title to get 8.5 points from the nine rounds.
And equaled to second place, 7 players, the most prominent of whom was the great Armenian international professor Andresyan Zaven, the Russian Ian Nepomyachy and the American Jatta Kamsky, with 8 points, and a difference of half a point for the first place, while the former Ukrainian world champion Alexandra Kostenyuk won the award for the best player with a score 7 points. 1126 players from all over the world participated in the tournament.