 Chess & Culture Club for Sharjah Women was opened in 1991 and another club for women was affiliated with Dubai Chess and Culture Club in 2000.
now there are 16 club officially registered in UAE chess federation.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.Emirati native Saeed Ahmed Saeed won the 1979 Under-14 World Chess Championship held in Mexico and this was the first achievement for UAE in chess at the international level.