World youth chess championship 2009
WYCC 2009 Turkey, participants, photos and information
The numbers announced a few weeks ago on Chessdom.com are valid – the World Youth Chess Chapionship will have 1500 players from 89 different countries. With all the accompanying persons, VIPs, staff of TCF, journalists, coaches etc. more than 2600 people are expected to arrive for this tournament. The competition will take place in Kemer, Antalya between 11-23 November 2009.
There have been a few changes to the first lists of participants. Here are the full participants lists, arranged by rating and age group.
Participants boys
Boys U8 / Boys U10 / Boys U12 / Boys U14 / Boys U16 / Boys U18
Participants girls
Girls U8 / Girls U10 / Girls U12 / Girls U14 / Girls U16 / Girls U18
This will be the third largest sports organization in the history of Turkey after 2005 Universiade and the 2007 World Youth Chess Championship. TCF has organized many similar events, such as 2007 World Youth Chess Championship, 2008 World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad and 2009 World Youth Under 16 Chess Olympiad.
Already some of the countries arrived to Kemer with their groups of players and are registering in at the hotels. The players that have settled previously started getting to know the hotel and the tournament site. Round 1 live games are on the 12th of November, and they will be followed with live blog on Chessdom.com.
Official site / Photo album / General page
Turkey is the new powerhouse of chess.
US should not lag behind for promoting the young players.
I don’t see any Chinese. Very odd. Some kind of boycott? Why?