KABUL - A chess tournament to choose a national Afghan team will be held in the capital Kabul in one months time, said Babrik Hesar, head of the Chess federation at the Afghan national Olympic committee.

Speaking to Pajhwok Afghan News on March 16, Hesar said that the federation was dismantled years of civil war, but it was recreated in the past three years.

But he said Afghanistan has no female chess team. "We also want to form a female team from school and university students."

Twenty-one year old chess player from the Youth team, Faraidoon is eager to gain a place on the national team.

In the meantime, forty of the best chess players from all over Afghanistan compete at a club in the center of capital Kabul, in Shar-e-Naw to secure a place in the national team. The competition ends this week.

The Afghan chess federation become a member of the international chess federation in 1985.