Cihan University–Erbil Completes Preparations for Inter-University Chess Championship

On Monday, November 9, 2026, the Headship of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at Cihan University-Erbil completed its preparations for the university’s participation in the Inter-University Chess Championship.

For this purpose, the Headship of the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences organized an internal chess tournament involving students from various academic departments of Cihan University-Erbil, with the participation of more than 12 students.

This sports activity aimed to select form the university’s official team to represent the university in the Inter-University Chess Championship scheduled to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at the Lebanese French University among teams from universities across the Kurdistan Region.

The internal tournament at Cihan University-Erbil was conducted according to the seven-round Swiss System, in which all players completed seven rounds regardless of win or loss outcomes. In the first round, pairings were determined by draw or initial seeding, whereas from the second to the seventh rounds, match-ups were paired based on total points, matching winners with winners and losers with losers. This format allowed all participants to continue without elimination following a single loss.

At the end of the seventh round, the players who accumulated the highest points from total victories (1 point for a win, 0.5 points for a draw, and 0 points for a loss) were identified as tournament’s top performers and members of the university’s official chess team, namely:

1. Khattab Akram Qadir — Second-stage student, College of Pharmacy.
2. Ali Mohammed Ali — Second-stage student, College of Pharmacy.
3. Rasti Fuad Ahmed — Second-stage student, College of Pharmacy.
4. Aram Araz Hussein — Second-stage student, College of Pharmacy.
5. Ahmed Ismail — Third-stage student, College of Dentistry.
6. Ali Surdash Hassan — Third-stage student, Department of Software Engineering and Informatics.
7. Fatimah Farhad Mustafa — Third-stage student, Department of Software Engineering and Informatics.
8. Anas Ara Ahmed — Second-stage student, Department of Software Engineering and Informatics.