The European Youth Chess Championship is organized by the European Chess Union (ECU) in groups under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years old. The first tournament was held in 1991, and the under 8 category was introduced in 2007. Until 2002 there was also a tournament for the under 20 group (see European Junior Chess Championship). There are also specific tournaments for girls only, in the same age categories.
2024 European Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship (42 Events) [1] [2]
Results:
23rd European Youth Blitz Championship 2024. [3]
The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015, the event has been split into "World Cadets Chess Championship" and "World Youth Chess Championship".
Dariusz Świercz is a Polish-American chess player playing for the United States. He was the youngest Polish player of all time to qualify for the title Grandmaster; he was 14 years and seven months when he achieved this title in 2009. In 2018 he switched his national federation to the United States.
Alexandra Sergeevna Obolentseva is a Russian chess player. She was awarded the title Woman Grandmaster by FIDE in 2018. Obolentseva has won the World Youth Chess Championships, the World Schools Chess Championships and the European Schools Chess Championships in her age girls category.
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and norms. Once awarded, titles are held for life except in cases of fraud or cheating. Open titles may be earned by all players, while women's titles are restricted to female players. Many strong female players hold both open and women's titles. FIDE also awards titles for arbiters, organizers and trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE.
Walterstown GFC is a Gaelic Athletic Association football club based in & around the town of Navan, in County Meath, Ireland. The club plays Gaelic Football competing in Meath GAA & Leinster competitions. The club has won the Meath Senior Football Championship five times & the Leinster Senior Club championship twice.
Richard Wang is a chess international master from Canada. Wang became the second youngest International Master in Canadian history at the age of 13 at the 2012 Canadian Closed Chess Championships (Zonal) held in Montreal, Canada. Other notable achievements include winning two bronze medals at the World Youth Chess Championship: the first in 2009 in the U12 Boys section and the second in 2012 in the U14 Boys section. He is one of the few Canadians to win more than one medal at the WYCC.
Anna Vyacheslavovna Styazhkina is a Russian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) in 2013 and won the under 10 girls' section of the World Youth Chess Championship in 2007 and the under 16 girls' in 2012. She was the runner-up at the World U12 Girls' Championship in 2009 and at the World U14 Girls' Championship in 2011.
Robert Aghasaryan is an Armenian chess Grandmaster (2014). As of June 2018, he is rated by FIDE as with an Elo rating of 2537, his best until now.
Olexandr Bortnyk is a Ukrainian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2015, at the age of 19. A former chess prodigy, Bortnyk is considered one of the strongest players according to his rating on the chess.com website in the "Blitz" and "Bullet" category. In 2018, Oleksandr left for the USA together with his wife Evgenia Bortnyk and founded the "Bortnik School of Chess" chess school. Oleksandr Bortnyk has an older brother, Mykola Bortnyk, who also plays chess and holds the title International Master. Bortnyk regularly streams on Twitch and puts up content on YouTube.
Elizabete Limanovska is a Latvian chess player who holds the title of Woman FIDE Master. She won the Latvian Women Chess Championship in 2018.
The Chess Classics were chess tournaments initiated by Hans-Walter Schmitt, they were organized in the years 1994 to 2010. Among other things, the world champions in rapid chess and - also under rapid chess time control - the world champion in Chess960 and the computer Chess960 world champion were determined.
Maria Efimenko, née Tantsiura, is a Ukrainian chess player who has held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM) since 2013.
Govhar Beydullayeva is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. She is the 2022 World Girls U-20 Champion as well as the World Girl's U18 Champion in 2021.
Kacper Drozdowski is a Polish chess player who holds the title of International Master.
Aydin Suleymanli is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (2021).
Ulvi Bajarani is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. He received the FIDE Master title in 2005, the International Master title in 2010, and the Grandmaster Title in 2013.
Grzegorz Nasuta is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Julia Antolak is a Polish chess Woman Grandmaster (WGM) (2021).
Igor Janik is a Polish chess grandmaster.
Jakub Kosakowski is a Polish chess International Master (2020).
