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 Silver | Points Bronze | Number of Players |
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
