2022 Asia-Oceania University Chess Championship December 17th to 26th on Tornelo

National University Sports Federation of Iran (IUSF) and the Asian University Sports Federation (AUSF) invite National University Sports Federations in Asia and Oceania to participate in the 2022 Asia-Oceania University Chess Championship from 17th to 24th December 2022, which is supported by Asian Chess Federation (ACF) and International Chess Federation (FIDE) and Iran Chess Federation (ICF).

1. Events

Men’s Individual
Women’s Individual
Men’s Team
Women’s Team

2. Eligibility

All players must satisfy the following conditions in order to participate in the AUCC:

2.1 be full-time students who are currently officially registered as proceeding towardsadegree or diploma at the university or similar institute whose status is recognizedbytheappropriate national academic authority of their country or regions;
2.2 be former students who have obtained their academic degree or diploma in the precedingyear;
2.3 be at least 17 and less than 28 years of age on January 1st in the year of the AUCC(bornfrom 1
st January 1994 to 31
st December 2004). Each federation may enter one (1) team (a combined team or a university team) per gender. Each team consists of four (4) players, and one (1) official as the Head of the Delegation. Forthe team events, each federation may enter at a maximum of one (1) foreign student whodoesn’t hold the citizenship of the Country/Region he/she represents and is eligibleasregulated by Article 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3. The Head of the Delegation will be the SPOC (Single Point of Contact) for the OrganizingCommittee in any communication and discussion. For the individual event, each federation may enter up to four (4) players in the team.

3. Registration

3.1 The entries of AUCC shall be submitted by the National University Sports FederationsinAsia and the players shall be registered by their respective National Chess Federations. Noregistration/participation fee is required for this event. To complete the registration, all required materials must be sent to the Organizing Committee, and copied to AUSF (ausf@ausf.org) no later than:
 17th September — General Entry Form
 17th October — Quantitative Entry Form
 17th November — Individual Entry, Academic Eligibility and Information Collectionform, a valid passport or ID copy (with English translation)

4. Tournament Regulations

4.1. The tournament will take place on Tornelo platform. The use of Zoomis mandatoryforall players during all games. The Organizing Committee will set up the platforms foreach match with the supervision of arbiters. 4.2. Players may go to toilet between rounds and should be ready for the next round, returntotheir seat and wait for the Arbiter to start the round. Each round shall start after postingof pairings on signal by the Chief Arbiter. 4.3. Instructions to Players shall be provided for the online platform. Please do not playunofficial games in between rounds during the tournament. 5. System of Play
The tournament shall be run as 9-round tournaments for Men and for Women using the SwissSystem. Players from the same team will not be paired together. If there are few teams in the women’s group, that group shall be merged and the awardgivento the best team of that group.

Regulations

INVITATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Contact

For other information, please contact
Organizing Committee:
Mr. Amir Erfan Hashemi
Email: a_e_hashemi@yahoo.com/ Irannusf@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Ms. Khatereh Azizi
azizi.khatere@gmail.com
Tel: +982188915251-3
Asian University Sports Federation:
Mr. Yang Yi, Email: ausf@ausf.org
Tel: +86-10-66093760
Asian Chess Federation:
Mr. Casto Abundo
Email: casto.abundo@gmail.com
Tel: +971-50-3544938

6th Eastern Asia (ASEAN) Youth Chess Championship

4-13 November 2022, Bangkok, Thailand

Thailand Chess Association (TCA) under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation (ACF)
and International Chess Federation (FIDE) invites regional chess federations (Zone 3.3 and
China) to participate in the 6th Eastern Asia (ASEAN) Youth Chess Championship, to be held
in Bangkok, Thailand, from 4th November (Arrival) — 13th November (Departure) 2022.

Tournament Rules and Regulations

1. Eligibility and Participation
1.1. Entitled to participate are chess players from Eastern Asia federations (Zone 3.3
member federations and China).
1.2. Each Eastern Asia Federation (Zone 3.3 member federations and China) can register
only ONE official player in each category (organizer provides them free full
accommodation in double rooms).
1.3. Each federation may register any number of additional players. These players will
cover their board and lodging by themselves.
1.4. Players must not have reached the relevant age before 1st January 2022. See table
below. In case there are fewer than ten players and five federations in an age group,
that group shall be merged with another age group. Players under 6 (born on or
after 1st Jan 2016) shall have a special category.

Regulation

Registration form

Contacts:

Casto Abundo, Executive Director, Asian Chess Federation
asianchessfederation@yahoo.com

Registration and visa: Accommodation: Transfer:

Sahapol Nakvanich, President, Thailand Chess Association:
Sahapol09@gmail.com

Expo 2020 Dubai to host FIDE World Chess Championship

Organised by the International Chess Federation (FIDE), the postponed 2020 championship will take place between 24 November and 16 December 2021, and will see the reigning world champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, defend his title against the winner of the delayed Candidates Tournament, which is due to conclude in Ekaterinburg, Russia, in April. The two players will compete for a prize fund of EUR 2 million (AED 9 million).

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Lausanne, January 28, 2021

The championship will take place 24 November – 16 December 2021 in Dubai, as a highlight of Expo’s diverse and inspiring calendar

Reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen will defend his title for the fourth time against a yet to be determined challenger

The two players will compete for a prize fund of 2 million euros

Chess has experienced a massive surge in popularity during 2020, connected to the global lockdowns and the global success of ‘The Queen’s Gambit’

The next FIDE World Chess Championship – the highlight of the world chess calendar – will be held at Expo 2020 Dubai, promising an enthralling contest that will delight chess fans and the wider public alike.

Full news fide.com

Official website of FIDE World Championship Dubai 2021

Editors note: In early 2020, Chess.com was experiencing steady growth and had projected that it would hit around 4 million daily active users in 10 years. Then the pandemic hit, and alongside the release of the Netflix smash hit, The Queen’s Gambit, they reached this active user number in six months. In this post, Saad Abdali, Director of Technology at Chess.com, explains how handling this surge would have been impossible without the help of their migration to Google Cloud.

Happy International Chess Day! Chess is often seen as a game that’s elitist and stodgy —something your grandfather played back in the day.

In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Thanks to the internet and sites like ours, chess has never been more vibrant than it is today.

Each day, millions of people visit Chess.com to learn the game, solve puzzles, play against similarly skilled opponents, watch live tournaments, and connect with other chess aficionados. During the pandemic, interest in the sport grew faster than at any time in history.

By adopting Google Cloud, we have been able to achieve things that were difficult or impossible when relying solely on our on-premise hardware. The greatest benefit Google Cloud provides is the ability to scale instantly as demand increases. And in 2020, the demand for online chess surged in a way we had never seen before.

Controlling the board

We first began noticing unpredictable spikes in traffic when our weekly Titled Tuesday event began surging in popularity in 2019. Titled Tuesday is a contest where the best players in the world (those who have the title of Master or better) compete in high-stakes one-hour matches for prize money. We introduced the event in 2014, and by 2018 the event was attracting nearly 400 of the chess world’s brightest stars each week, along with the legions of fans who wanted to watch them play.. Keeping our on-premise servers up and running during these increasingly high-stakes events was a growing challenge.

Then the pandemic hit.

Almost overnight, traffic to Chess.com tripled. Since our launch in 2007, we had been growing at a steady rate of about 20-50% every year. But in March 2020 alone, our number of daily active users rose from 280,000 to more than 1 million.

Fortunately for us, we’d begun migrating significant functionality to Google Cloud in mid-2019. Before then, we’d run entirely on hardware we owned and deployed to physical data centers. So when our traffic surged, we were able to click a few buttons and spin up all the virtual servers we needed.

A new gambit

Traffic remained at that high level throughout the summer and early fall. And then, after The Queen’s Gambit debuted on Netflix last November, it doubled again.

The fictional story of Beth Harmon’s rise to chess mastery inspired a new generation of players, especially young women. At the peak, we were serving up to 6 million users each day.

The surge in popularity inspired us to create chess-playing bots that use a Monte Carlo tree search system to mimic Harmon’s style of play, as well as the styles of living grandmasters like Hikaru Nakamura and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.

Our ability to quickly expand capacity with Google Cloud is what allowed Chess.com to meet all of that rapidly increasing demand. It also enabled us to roll out new game types, like Puzzle Battle, where players compete against similarly skilled opponents to solve a series of increasingly complex chess problems. Puzzle Battle was the first major feature that we designed from the ground up to run in Google Cloud. Not only did this avoid adding load to our on-premise hardware, but we found that it significantly accelerated the development process.

We’re currently migrating all gameplay from Chess.com, as well as its companion site, ChessKid.com, to a new distributed gameplay system hosted entirely on Google Cloud. In addition to helping us scale, the new cloud architecture provides a number of other benefits, including the ability to deploy a truly global service. One of the most popular game types on Chess.com is Bullet Chess, in which each player gets just one minute on the clock; these extremely fast games are quite time-sensitive. Google Cloud is enabling us to deploy gameplay nodes across the world, so that each player can enjoy a low-latency connection to a nearby Chess.com node.

Check and mate

After The Queen’s Gambit, our site traffic stabilized to around 4 million daily active users. Still, the site experienced 10 years’ worth of projected growth in just six months. There is no way Chess.com could have handled that surge without the move to Google Cloud.

With Google Cloud’s nearly infinite ability to scale in response to demand, we don’t have to forecast what our site traffic is going to be at any point in time. We no longer worry about whether the site is resilient enough to withstand unexpected surges, or end up wasting money by over-provisioning servers that go unused.

It also gives us the freedom to experiment with new projects at minimal risk. We can try out new features for the site. If they fail, we can spin down the virtual machines and stop paying for them. If they are a wild success, we can simply add more machines to spread the load.

Our greater mission is to share our love of chess with the world, and to enable existing players to expand their horizons. It’s one of the reasons why we’ve created sites like ChessKid.com, and recently together with The International Chess Federation (FIDE), announced the first-ever Women’s World Cup.

Chess began as a game, turned into a community, and is becoming a movement. We’re proud of the role Chess.com has played in that evolution, and grateful for the help Google Cloud has provided in allowing us to make it a reality.

Saad Abdali
Director of Technology at Chess.com
July 20, 2021

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World Women’s Team Championship 2021 — Call for bids

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) will hold the World Women’s Team Championship in the second part of September and the first part of October 2021 (see the tournament regulations).

FIDE is opening a bidding procedure to invite any federation member of FIDE or any organiser approved by the national federation to host the event. Bid Forms shall be filled in by the applicants. A signed copy shall be submitted as e-mail messages to the FIDE Secretariat to office@fide.com from 3 April to 2 May by 23:59 Lausanne time. All the documents must be submitted in English. Additional documents may be requested by the FIDE General Strategy Commission (GSC) for further evaluation.

GSC will present the FIDE Council a report with an evaluation of the bids received. Once the Organiser is granted the right to organise the event, this will be announced on the FIDE website. FIDE may appoint a Technical Delegate (FIDE TD) to supervise the event on behalf of FIDE in consultation with GSC.

fide.com

International Chess Federation (FIDE), Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA), and the World Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2019 Organizing Committee, have the honour to invite all the FIDE member Chess Federations to participate in the FIDE World Youth Chess Championships Rapid and Blitz 2019 (under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old – open and girls), to be held in Salobreña, Costa Tropical, Andalucia, Spain, from September 10th to September 14th, 2019.

info@wyrbcc2019.com

Regulations

Official website