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Participation:
Each federation can register one (1) player in each of the categories - under 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 (boys and girls), the maximum number of twelve (12) players (“invited players”).
The players placed 1-3 in the previous European Youth Chess Championship will have the personal right to participate in the tournament in the corresponding age-category or a higher age-category if they fulfill the conditions that they have not reached the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 or 18 years, respectively, by January 1st 2012.
This privilege may be exercised once exclusively in the subsequent year following the year of the qualification.
In order to ensure proper tournament standards, all invited players and extra players have to register through their national federations before 30th June 2012 (registration deadline). The entry form should be filled in by the national federation on the official website of the championship.
Each federation can register an unlimited number of extra players.
Access to playing areas, venues and the hotel will be allowed only to people accredited by the organizer.
The entry form must be filled in by the national federation on the official website of the championship no later than 30th June 2012. This date is the registration deadline. After that, federations will not be able to register or modify any registrations. After this date all the registrations have to be confirmed by the organizer and the ECU.
Tournament schedule:
Thursday 16th August arrival
Thursday16th August 20:00 opening ceremony
Friday 17th August 10:00 technical meeting
Friday 17th August 15:00 1st round
Saturday18th August 15:00 2nd round
Sunday 19th August 15:00 3rd round
Monday 20th August 15:00 4th round
Tuesday 21st August 15:00 5th round
Wednesday 22nd August 15:00 6th round
Thursday 23rd August 15:00 7th round
Friday 24th August 15:00 8th round
Saturday 25th August 13:00 9th round
Saturday25th August 20:00 closing ceremony
Sunday 26th August departure
Players from those federations, which are not represented at the technical meeting, will not be paired according to the decision of ECU board.
Rules and regulations:
The ECU Tournament Rules should be followed.
The tournament will be played by a 9-rounds Swiss system. National ratings will not be taken into consideration for pairings. The time rate will be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Zero-tolerance rule will be applied for each round.
Communication between players (the offer of draw) is forbidden until the 40th move has been played
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Prague (CZE)
