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Michael Barron
05-08-2010, 11:57 PM
Dear chess friends,

I got the following message from Mr. Ali Nihat YAZICI, President of Turkish Chess Federation:

"To All World Chess Federations,

The Government of Turkey and the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF), have the honour to invite all the FIDE member Chess Federations around the world to participate in the World School Chess Championship 2010 (under 7, under 9, under 11, under 13, under 15 and under 17 years old - open and girls) which will take place in Kayseri, Türkiye, between July the 20th, 2010 (arrival) and July 31st, 2010 (departure).

TCF aims to organise an excellent event with your participation.

TCF aims for a record participation in these events. We hope to achieve more than 800 players and 500 accompanying persons.

We are ready to accommodate over 1.500 participants. We want to make a significant impact with global media coverage and special attention to chess

The event will be organised under the auspieces of the First Lady of Turkish Republic, Honorary Mrs.Hayrunissa GUL.

That is the reason, Turkish Chess Federation aims to break record of participants and federations for this event and there will be a lot of supports for participating federations.

All federations, either CACDED member or not will be given one room free hospitality for the event in 4 stars hotels.

I ask kindly to all my collegues to support the event by sending minimum one player representing their federation.



Best regards,

Ali Nihat YAZICI
President of Turkish Chess Federation
ICO and IA"


If you're planning a summer chess circuit, you have now a perfect sequence of events:

July 6-9: Canadian Youth Chess Championships in Windsor:
http://www.cycc.ca/

July 10-19: Canadian Open Chess Championships in Toronto:
http://monroi.com/2010-cocc-players.html

July 20-31: World School Chess Championship in Kayseri, Turkey:
http://wscc2010.tsf.org.tr/

August 1-8: Pan American Youth Chess Festival in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil:
http://fideamerica.com/2010/abril/23/PAN%20AMERICAN%20YOUTH%20FESTIVAL%202010.pdf

Please let me know, if you're interested to participate in these tournaments.

Michael Barron
06-02-2010, 09:53 PM
Dear chess friends,

If you're interested to participate in the World School Chess Championship 2010, please let me know by Monday, June 7th.

So far we have 2 interested players:
Agastya Kalra
Jack Qian