4F. Youth Coordinator reports
4F. Youth Coordinator reports
This year we are seeing a significantly increase interests in the Youth Chess. As from Vlad's report, we are seeing lot of youth players has dramatically improve their chess knowledge. We are also seeing parents are more eager, involved and willing to travel in youth chess. This year CFC is doing more educational presentation to parents who will definitely help on the grow of youth chess.
From my last report since Sept 2023, our youth players have did an amazing performance in the following amazing events.
1. FIDE World School Chess Championships, Lima Peru, April 30 - May 10, 2024
FIDE announced this tournament on Mar 17 and the deadline is April 6.
This leave me a very short period of time to setup the team for this event.
CFC Chess Forum post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...ship-Lima-Peru
A CFC google registration form is created for interested players to register.
2. FIDE World Junior Chess Championships, Gujarat India, Jun 1 - 14, 2024
FIDE annouced the World Junior on March 17 and the official deadline date is April 1, 2024. I already wrote the email to extend the deadline date.
Our Canadian Junior which is the qualifying tournament to World Junior will be hosted by Excelsior Chess Club from April 10 - 14, 2024
Canadian Junior post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/showthread.php?6392-Join-in-April-Canadian-Juniors-Chess-Championship-Compete-Win-and-Have-Fun!
A CFC registration form will be created shortly.
3. Canadian Schools Team Championships, June 8, 2024
After a very successfully start from last year, we received many inquiry from players that they are very interested on this event. Vlad Rekhson and I have numerous talk to see if we can incorporate this event into CFC calendar. We are proposed to host this tournament online on Jun 8, 2024.
So far, FIDE doesn't not have World Schools Team Championships in their calendar for 2024.
Vlad will work on more details about this event, and once we finalize it, we will announce it and hope many teams will join from across Canada.
4. World U08-U10-U12, Batumi Georgia, June 22- Jul 3, 2024
This is a brand new tournament and will only invite 48 players top rated players around the world from each age category.
Canada does not qualified for any spot based on article 3.4-3.8 requirements. But at the end, Canada received 12 wildcards for this event.
Official website: https://wcc2024.fide.com/
CFC Chess Forum Post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...Batumi-Georgia
12 players are awarded for this tournament:
U08O Elliot McCallum and Zhihan, Xu
U08G Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky and Anne Gao
U10O Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati and Raunak Amit Ramesan
U10G Florence Zixin Xu and Ashley Fu
U12O Daniel Joshua Lee and Zeming Yin
U12G April Wang and Joanne Wangluo
U12O Mendes Aaron Mendes will register as Personal Right player as he is ranked top 3 in FIDE rating system.
5. Canadian Youth Chess Championship at Laval Quebec, July 9-12, 2024
CYCC official website : https://cycc2024.my.canva.site/
CFC Chess Forum post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...C-Laval-Quebec
I had been working diligently with CYCC organizer, clubs from across Canada, and players in question to ensure the players are all validated and eligible to play in CYCC.
This year we adopt a new rule. CFC allowed the players to register first and get qualified before Jul 1, 2024. This way, more players can benefit from early bird discount as many regional qualifiers are run very later in the year.
CFC has created a weekly updated Qualified List so parents can check if players are on the qualified list.
CFC has also created a one-time Pre-Qualified List. This list has top 10 players from each age category base on Mar 1, 2024 rating. These players are all pre-qualified into CYCC.
On Mar 20, we had 301 players registered into the CYCC and we expect we will have an new breaking breaking number for this year.
6. PanAmerican Youth Chess Championships, Orlando Florida, Jul 15- 20, 2024
This year, even PanAm Youth is in USA, but the registration has to go thru the Federation.
Official website: https://new.uschess.org/pan-american...ionships-xxxiv
CFC Chess Forum Post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...rlando-Florida
A CFC registration form is created and players start to fill in the form.
The official players will be selected based on the 2023 CYCC final standings.
7. North American Junior U20, Calgary AB, Aug 14-18, 2024
Official website: https://najcc.com/NAJCC/Home/Home
Registration is open for all Canadian players.
There are tremendous amount of works involved in setting up each team. Even I am overwhelmed with this workloads, I am still very happy to see Canadian youth are shining in all international stages.
Finally, congratulation to all players and thank you to all parents who support your children on all these chess journeys. CFC also thanks to all organizers who run tournaments to provide the best environment for our young players to grow.
Christina
CFC Youth Coordinator