Any update on World/European youth/cadet?

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Wadih Khoury
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Any update on World/European youth/cadet?

Post by Wadih Khoury » Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:10 am

Does anyone know if the main FIDE and European tournaments for juniors will be held, postponed or cancelled?

Matt Bridgeman
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Re: Any update on World/European youth/cadet?

Post by Matt Bridgeman » Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:33 am

There's some information on the ECU Calendar for 2020. It looks like the European Youth Championship scheduled for November in Turkey is postponed to 2021. Likewise the European Schools Championship. https://www.europechess.org/calendar/ecu-calendar-2020/
On the plus side it will save chess parents a small fortune :)
...possibly the World Cadets 18-31 October in Batumi, Georgia is running, but who knows? The World Youth isn't running and the World Schools didn't run.

Simon Rogers
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Re: Any update on World/European youth/cadet?

Post by Simon Rogers » Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:26 pm

Wadih Khoury wrote:
Sat Aug 08, 2020 10:10 am
Does anyone know if the main FIDE and European tournaments for juniors will be held, postponed or cancelled?
The European Yourh Chess Championship 2020, scheduled for the 12th-22nd November in Antalya, Turkey has been postponed until next year.
The European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2020, scheduled for the 26th-30th December in Novi Sad, Serbia has been postponed until next year.
For some reason, on the FIDE website Calendar, they are both still going ahead as planned.
I have found a few OTB events that are apparently going ahead for which I'll start a new topic for.

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