FIDE announces qualification paths for Candidates Tournament 2022
The International Chess Federation has approved the qualification criteria to select the eight players who will participate in the Candidates Tournament 2022. Like in the previous cycle, the goal has been to devise a democratic qualification system, where every reasonably strong player is given a chance to qualify. These are the different qualifying events and criteria: A) One spot – FIDE World Championship Match 2021, Runner-up As tradition goes, one spot will go directly to the runner-up at the FIDE World Championship Match, to be played in Dubai (UAE) in November-December 2021. B) One spot – GM Teimour Radjabov (winner of the FIDE World Cup 2019) One place will be reserved for Teimour Radjabov, the winner of the FIDE World Cup 2019. FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich mentioned that this was his intention in a recent interview. The FIDE Council members fully supported his position, so we are happy to confirm that Teimour will be granted this possibility. C) Two spots – FIDE World Cup 2021 Two spots will be decided at the FIDE World Cup 2021, to be played in Sochi (Russia), in July-August 2021. The two finalists in this event will earn their tickets to the Candidates 2022. It may happen that Teimour Radjabov or any of the two contenders in the 2021 match (Magnus Carlsen or Ian Nepomniachtchi) are in the final. In this case, the place will be passed on to the next non-qualified player in the FIDE World Cup (but not further than 4th place) or to the next non-qualified player in the FIDE Grand Prix Series 2022. D) Two spots – FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament 2021 Two places will be at stake in the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, to be held in October-November 2021 in Douglas (Isle of Man). The two top-finishers in this 114-player event, which is expected to be the strongest Swiss event ever held, will advance to the next stage of the world championship cycle 2021-2022. If any of these two players happen to be already qualified through events A, B or C, the spot will go to the next non-qualifying player in the standings of the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. E) Two spots – FIDE Grand Prix Series 2022 The remaining two spots will be granted to the two top-finishers at the FIDE Grand Prix Series 2022, which will take place between February and April 2022. The Regulations for the Series will be published in June. We must note that the winner of the FIDE World Championship Match 2021 is not allowed to participate in Grand Prix Series. Likewise, none of the players already qualified via events A, B, C or D, is expected to take part in the Grand Prix. If any of them decides to participate, they should give up their qualification spot previously earned. In the eventuality of any schedule modification caused by the pandemic or any other force majeure circumstances, the FIDE Council is entitled to adjust the qualification criteria accordingly.
FIDE Online Cadets & Youth Rapid World Cup 2021 announced
The FIDE Online Rapid World Cup (Cadets & Youth 10-18) is a two-stage tournament that will be played in 5 different age groups – under 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, and 2 sections – open and girls (totally 10 tournaments). The participants must not have reached their 10th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th birthday, respectively, before January 1st of the year 2021. Qualifying Stage (August 1 – 20, 2021) Every Chess Federation can register 3 (three) players per category in the qualifying stage (30 players in total) which is held in the format of 10-round Swiss tournament. In some cases, the federations are entitled to replace players from various age categories, boys and girls, within 30 players. According to the “medal statistics” of 2017 – 2020, some federations can register additional players. Federations are entitled to apply to the organizer for the wild cards during the registration process. Final stage (August 26 – 31, 2021) The finals will consist of ten separate 16-player KO tournaments (Girls under 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and Open under 10, 12, 14, 16, and 18) with 6 players who have personal right to participated and 10 qualifiers in each, 160 participants in total. Three top-finishers per category will qualify for the FIDE Online Rapid Super Final 2021. The prize fund of Super Final amounts to €30,000. The players placed 4-8 (5 players) and one highest-rated player (by 01.08.2021 Fide Standard rating) among 9-16th places in the World Cup 2021 per category in each qualifying tournament will advance to the FIDE Online Rapid Grand Prix Series 2021. Registration deadline is July 10th, 22:00 CET, 2021. World Cup will be played on Tornelo platform. You can find all the information related to World Cup information on the tournament official website https://youth-worldcup.fide.com/ CONTACT INFORMATION Email address: youth@fide.com Additional Quota for Federations based on World Cadets & Youth Medal Statistics (2017 – 2020) FEDERATION Points Gold Points Silver Points Bronze Number of Playersallowed to participate 1 USA 99 36 21 156 2 RUS 72 54 27 153 3 IND 72 30 18 120 4 CHN 45 42 12 99 5 KAZ 9 24 9 42 6 ARM 9 12 3 24 7 UZB 0 18 6 24 8 POL 0 12 9 21 9 GER 18 0 0 18 10 IRAN 9 6 3 18 11 AZE 9 6 0 15 12 MGL 9 0 6 15 13 UKR 0 12 0 12 14 INA 9 0 3 12 15 HUN 0 12 0 12 16 NED 9 0 0 9 17 UAE 9 0 0 9 18 ESP 9 0 0 9 19 GEO 0 6 3 9 20 PER 9 0 0 9 21 SVK 9 0 0 9 22 SLO 9 0 0 9 23 CZE 0 6 0 6 24 PUR 0 0 3 3 25 SRB 0 0 3 3 26 ECU 0 0 3 3 27 VIE 0 0 3 3 28 COL 0 0 3 3 29 ITA 0 0 3 3 414 276 138 828 1 Gold = 9 points 1 Silver = 6 points 1 Bronze = 3 points
FIDE Chessable Academy: 140 Nominations from 51 Federations
Dear member Federations: At the close of the official deadline, the newly created FIDE Chessable Academy has received 140 nominations from 51 Federations to enrol their most promising young talents into this training program. Eligible players are between the ages of 8 and 16. This is the breakdown by country: No Country Boys Girls Total Africa 1 Botswana 1 1 2 2 Gambia 1 1 2 3 Senegal 1 1 2 4 Uganda 1 1 2 America 5 Argentina 2 1 3 6 Barbados 1 1 2 7 Brazil 1 1 2 8 Canada 1 1 2 9 Chile 2 1 3 10 Cuba 1 1 2 11 Jamaica 1 1 2 12 Panama 1 1 2 13 Paraguay 1 1 2 14 Trinidad & Tobago 1 1 2 15 USA 3 3 6 Asia 16 Chinese Taipei 1 1 2 17 India 8 4 12 18 Japan 1 1 2 19 Jordan 1 1 2 20 Kazakhstan 1 3 4 21 Kyrgyzstan 1 1 2 22 Malaysia 1 1 2 23 New Zealand 1 1 2 24 Palestine 1 1 2 25 Singapore 1 1 2 26 Sri Lanka 1 1 2 27 Syria 1 0 1 Europe 28 Albania 1 1 2 29 Andorra 1 1 2 30 Belgium 2 1 3 31 Bulgaria 2 2 4 32 Cyprus 1 1 2 33 Czech Republic 1 1 2 34 England 1 1 2 35 France 3 2 5 36 Germany 1 1 2 37 Greece 1 1 2 38 Italy 1 1 2 39 Ireland 1 1 2 40 Latvia 1 1 2 41 Moldova 1 1 2 42 Nederlands 1 2 3 43 Poland 1 3 4 44 Romania 1 1 2 45 Russia 4 8 12 46 Scotland 1 1 2 47 Spain 1 1 2 48 Sweden 1 1 2 49 Turkey 2 1 3 50 Ukraine 2 1 3 51 Wales 1 1 2 There have also been many requests to allow for extra time to contact candidates and especially due to this coinciding with the start of several FIDE World Cup continental qualifying events. Therefore, FIDE agreed to extend the deadline to the end of Tuesday, May 25, by 17:00 CET.