FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships - (Nov 17 - Dec 23)

[Vadim Tsypin]

The FIDE Council has approved Regulations (http://world2020.ge/uploads/Regulations.pdf) 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.

More details are in the official announcement (https://fide.com/news/785).

[Christina Tao]

FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth (Under 10-18) Rapid Chess Championships.
Regulation file: here (http://world2020.ge/uploads/Regulations.pdf)

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/2020-national-youth-active-online-chess-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
U10O 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

[Christina Tao]

FIDE Online World Cadet and Youth (Under 10-18) Rapid Chess Championships.
http://www.world2020.ge/

After the submission of 10 champions to FIDE, Canada was handed with extra 19 wild card spots in the very last minutes.
Therefore CFC invited all 2nd or tied for 2nd place winners from each age categories to join this event.
Then with few extra spots, we invited the highest CFC ranked players in each age categories

Tournament Date/Time - America Selection Stage.
Round 1-2 Dec 1st 6:00pm and 7:30pm New York time
Round 3-4-5 Dec 2nd, 6:00pm, 7:30 and 9:00pm New York time
Round 6-7 Dec 3rd, 6:00pm and 7:30pm New York time

Rounds: 7 Rounds swiss system tournament.
10’ +3’’ increment starting from first move.

Games will be lived on chess24.com

America Tornelo Lobby:
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/fide/events/fide-world-youth-rapid-champ-america-u10/lobby
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/fide/events/fide-world-youth-rapid-champ-america-u12/lobby
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/fide/events/fide-world-youth-rapid-champ-america-u14/lobby
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/fide/events/fide-world-youth-rapid-champ-america-u16/lobby
https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/fide/events/fide-world-youth-rapid-champ-america-u18/lobby


Congratulation on the following players
U10 Open
Mendes Aaron Reeve
Wu Jonathan
Dunikov Glib
Gao Justin Jialin
Georgescu-Nicolau Luca

U10 Girl
Myrzaibraimova Alia
Chen Rae
Guan Isabelle
Qian Ashley


U12 Open
Atanasov Anthony
Chandra Anand Rishi
Han Johnathan
Latorre Vincent

U12 Girls
Li Julia
Hua Michelle
Gao Lucy
Guo Anni
Mok Gillian Xi-Lin


U14 Open
Issani Nameer
Chen Max
Srinivasan Hemant
Batorshyn Ilia

U14 Girls
Jiang Kate Yuhua
Tsukerman Julia
D`souza Carina


U16 Open
Zhao Ian
Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn
Tanaka Taira Tyler

U16 Girls
Bilodeau-Savaria Sandy-Rose


U18 Open
Talukdar Rohan
Noritsyn Sergey
Azar Sebastien

U18 Girls
Ouellet Maili-Jade
Demchenko Svitlana


Christina
CFC Youth Coordinator

[Vadim Tsypin]

Thanks Christina.

Follow our players' progress here (http://chess-results.com/tnr539216.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30). Go Canada go!

[Christina Tao]

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.
FIDE Online World Rapid Tournament : here (http://www.world2020.ge/)

Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr539207.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=7&flag=30


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

[Christina Tao]

The Final Stage of FIDE Online World Cadets and Youths Tournament Dec 19 - 23, 2020.


There are 6 Canadian players advanced into the Final Stage from Selection Stage and Maili-Jade Ouellet is directly invited into the Final Stage.


The first elimination round starts on Dec 19, CET 16:00 which is 10:00 EST time (Ontario Time)
Watch games directly from http://www.world2020.ge/

After fiercely fights, 2 Canadian players advance to 2nd round.

BIG CONGRATULATION to
U10O Aaron Reeve Mendes
U18G Maili-Jade Ouellet


Second elimination round will start on Dec 20, CET 16:00 which is 10:00 EST time.


Christina