(NOTICE) 2020 National Youth Active Online Chess Championships - Nov 8, 2020

[Christina Tao]

FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth (Under 10-18) Rapid Chess Championships.
Regulation file: here

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.

Qualifier Tournament: 2020 National Youth Active Online Chess Championships
https://juniorstomasters.site123.me/...-championships

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
U10G Myrzaibraimova, Alia
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