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FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships - (Nov 17 - Dec 23)
FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships - (Nov 17 - Dec 23)
The FIDE Council has approved Regulations for the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. This event will be held among ten out of twelve age/gender categories that are customary in over-the-board Cadets and Youth championships (U-08 Open and U-08 Girls are excluded). Every national federation can register one player per each category for the selection (a.k.a., qualification) stage. There are also players invited by rating. The registration deadline is November 15.
CFC is very excited about this FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth (Under 10-18) Rapid Chess Championships.
· 5 different age groups – under 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 2 sections - open and girls. Players of the Championships must not have reached their 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th birthday, respectively, before January 1stof the year 2020.
· Every Chess Federation can register one player per each category in the selection stage.
· American Selection Stage: December 2-4, 2020
· In the selection stage, every FIDE continent will play ten separates online 7-rounds Swiss System tournaments.
· The time control for the selection stage will be 10 minutes + 3 second increment starting from the first move.
· First three winners per category for each FIDE continent will be qualified to the final stages.
· FINAL STAGE 19 – 23 December 2020
Since each National Federation can only register one player per each age category. CFC is honored to announce 2020 National Youth Active Online Chess Championships organized by Juniors to Masters Chess Academy (JtM) as the qualifier tournament to the Selection Stage of FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth Rapid Chess Championship.
The winner of each age group will be the official representative to the Selection Stage of FIDE Online Rapid Chess Championships. Winners will also be invited to a special group training lead by Team Canada Head Coach GM Gergely Szabo and other Masters in November 2020.
Important Dates:
National Youth Tournament date: Nov 8. (**Date is changed from Nov 14 to Nov 8)
Registration closes: Nov 5.
Early Bird registration ends: Oct 29.
Mandatory Quality check for Zoom: Nov 2 and Nov 4.
Invited Players:
4.3 Additionally, players ranked Continental top 1-10 (excluding personal right players, see 5.2)
according to FIDE Standard Rating by 01.10.2020 per each age/gender category from each FIDE
continent are invited to the selection stage.
Congratulations to the following players who are already invited into World Rapid
U12O Atanasov, Anthony
U12O Zhong, Kevin
U12G Li, Julia
U12G Hua, Michelle
U18G Ouellet, Maili-Jade
I will work along with JtM for this exciting event. If you have any questions, please contact me at cfcyouthchess@gmail.com
Regards
Christina Tao
CFC Youth Coordinator
Last edited by Christina Tao; Friday, 23rd October, 2020, 09:18 PM.
The American Continental Selection Stage of the FIDE Online World Youth & Cadets Rapid Championships has been completed. There are total of 28 American Federations with 304 players were taking part in the event.
Huge congratulations to following 6 players from CANADA who have won the right to participate in the final stage of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Mendes Aaron Reeve (U10) Chandra Anand Rishi (U12) Issani Nameer (U14) Rodrique-Lemieux Shawn (U16) Talukdar Rohan (U18) Demchenko Svitlana (G18)
In Summary, there are 1380 players from 114 National Federations participate in FIDE ONLINE World Championships Selection Stage. African Contiential seletion is done American Contiential Selection is done Europe Contiential Selection will start on Dec 7th CET 16:00 Asia Contiential Selection will start on on Dec 11th CET 10:00 Final Stage is on Dec 19th, CET 16:00
At last, thanks to our FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich for his leadership of FIDE in these difficult times of pandemic. Special thanks to Mr. Akaki Iashvilli, FIDE vice president, for his work in organizing and supervising this tournament which gave players around the world this great opportunity. Many thanks to IA Tania Karali for all tournament technical issue and David Cordover for all the tornelo platform supports. This is an amazing event with an excellent organization.
Christina
CFC Youth Coordinator
Last edited by Christina Tao; Friday, 4th December, 2020, 04:07 PM.
We might have had seven players moving on except for the fact that Mailli-Jade Ouellet and Svitlana Demchenko were paired in the last round of the tournament.
Note that there were 30 spots available for players from this tournament and Canada won six of 30 spots. We were competing with countries in all of the Americas. A very good result. Thanks to Christina Tao for organizing the Canadian team. We were awarded 19 additional spots by the organizers on very short notice. Second place finishers in the National were added to the qualifiers. Some of the spots went to the highest rated players in each age group and these were largely among the group that moved on to the championship stage. Shawn would have made it into the group of selected players if he had not already qualified through the National Online tournament put on by Juniors to Masters.
The American Continental Selection Stage of the FIDE Online World Youth & Cadets Rapid Championships has been completed. There are total of 28 American Federations with 304 players were taking part in the event.
Huge congratulations to following 6 players from CANADA who have won the right to participate in the final stage of WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. Mendes Aaron Reeve (U10) Chandra Anand Rishi (U12) Issani Nameer (U14) Rodrique-Lemieux Shawn (U16) Talukdar Rohan (U18) Demchenko Svitlana (G18)
In Summary, there are 1380 players from 114 National Federations participate in FIDE ONLINE World Championships Selection Stage. African Contiential seletion is done American Contiential Selection is done Europe Contiential Selection will start on Dec 7th CET 16:00 Asia Contiential Selection will start on on Dec 11th CET 10:00 Final Stage is on Dec 19th, CET 16:00
At last, thanks to our FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich for his leadership of FIDE in these difficult times of pandemic. Special thanks to Mr. Akaki Iashvilli, FIDE vice president, for his work in organizing and supervising this tournament which gave players around the world this great opportunity. Many thanks to IA Tania Karali for all tournament technical issue and David Cordover for all the tornelo platform supports. This is an amazing event with an excellent organization.
Christina
CFC Youth Coordinator
It's nice to see the posted recognition of Tania and David, both first class people!
And she was telling me that her "Americas" days ended around 430am her time!
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