21 October 2020

FIDE to Hold Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships

The event will start on November 27.

Photo by Eteri Kublashvili
Photo by Eteri Kublashvili


The International Chess Federation will hold the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. This event will comprise five different age groups (U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18), competing in two sections: open and girls.

A selection stage will take place between November 27 and December 13, with the finals being played on December 19-23. 

In the selection stage, every FIDE Continent will run a 7-round Swiss tournament for each one of the categories (U10 open, U10 girls, et cetera). Each Member Federation can register one player per each category and, besides, players ranked Continental top-10 in each one of the categories is also invited.

The time control for the selection stage will be 10 minutes + 3 seconds increment starting from the first move.

The first three winners per category for each FIDE continent will be qualified to the final stage. This will consist of ten separate knock-out tournaments of 16 players. The 15 players who qualified at the selection stage will be joined by one player invited by the organizer among the first four-ranked in the world for their age group.

Please note that the time control for the finals will be slightly different than during the selection stage, being increased to 15 minutes + 10 seconds.

Registration

Information on Fide.com