World Youth Chess Championship 2013 in Al-Ain: Registrations Open

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

Hello everyone,

A total of 1,640 chess players from 95 countries have registered for the World Youth Chess Championship 2013 in Al Ain, U.A.E.

Registrations for the chess event are open till 17th November. 

Last year, at the World Youth Chess Championship, in Maribor, Slovenia, a participation record was achieved with 1584 chess players from 91 countries.

At the FIDE Chess Congress in Tallinn the organizers presented a video with many details about the venue.



FIDE Trainers, Organizers and Arbiters' Seminars are included in the parallel program. Al Ain Classic A & B International Open tournaments will take place concurrently with the World Youth.

All the information and the players lists by category and country on the official site: http://www.worldyouth2013.com.

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World Cities Team Chess Dec 21-28: Paris Top Seed

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012

Hi everyone,

The team of Paris, France is top seed in the World Cities Chess Team Championship starting 21st December in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Twenty four strong teams shall vie for the Sheikh Zayed Cup and a total of $150,000 in cash prizes at stake in the knock out competition, a first for team tournaments of the World Chess Federation (FIDE).

Led by GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the Paris team includes GMs Fressinet Laurent, Edouard Romain and Hamdouchi Hicham with a high average rating of 2677.

Teams were ranked by average rating of their 4 highest rated players in the 1st December FIDE rating list. Second seed at 2666 average is the Hoogeveen team of the Netherlands led by GM Anish Giri together with GMs Ivan Sokolov, Sergey Tiviakov and Jan Smeets. The Lviv team of Ukraine is third seed at an average of 2659 with the all-GM squad of Alexander Moiseenko, Yuriy Kryvorucko, Sergey Fedorchuk and Martyn Kravtsiv.

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