Western Asian Youth Chess Championship 2021 |
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Biggest Online Chess Championships to be organized by Sri Lanka |
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The Chess Federation of
Sri Lanka is ready to organize the biggest Asian Online Event, the Western
Asian Online Youth Chess Championships from 18th to 20th September 2021
at the Tornelo Platform. The Event conducted by the Asian Chess Federation
has attracted more than 1000 players from 15 Western Asian Countries. |
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The event will be held as 12 age category
events of under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 Boys and Girls. The Asian Chess
Federation has categorized, South Asia, Arab and the Russian Speaking
countries of Asia as the Western Asian Countries. More than 1000 players
from 14 countries has fielded their entries to participate in the event.
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India has fielded the biggest contingent
with 378 players while Sri Lanka also will field more than 300 players
for the competition. Iran also had fielded a big team of 161 players.
Other countries who have registered for the event are Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Oman, Kuwait, Palestine, Jordan
and UAE. One player is playing under FIDE, the World Chess Federation. |
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Sri Lankan Team is also fielded with
the Newest Under 10 Girls Online World Chess Champion and the eligible
players from the Online Olympiad Chess Team with the players who have
performance at the CFSL Online Youth Chess Championship 2021. |
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The Championships will be conducted
on the Swiss System in 9 rounds, having 3 games a day. The Newly approved
FIDE Online Chess regulations will be followed and the time control is
15 minutes a side with 10 seconds increment for each and every move played.
Only the laptop/ Desktop computers are allowed in participating while
players are closely observed by the arbiters via zoom meeting. Players
should have two cameras, one camera/ Webcam to see the player while other
to see his surrounding as side camera. |
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The Virtual Opening Ceremony will be
held on 18th of September 2021 at 11.00 a.m. in Zoom and Hon. Namal Rajapakse,
the Minister of Sports is expected to participate as Chief Guest with
his Highness Sheikh Sultan Bin Khalifa Al Nehyan, the President of Asian
Chess Federation. |
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The Chess Federation has decided to
award big Cash prizes for Sri Lankan Players who excelled in this event. |
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Luxman Wijesuriya President – CFSL |
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