The Indonesian Chess Federation (PERCASI) on behalf of the Asian Chess Federation (ACF) and FIDE has the honor to invite all Asian National Chess Federations to participate in the 2022 Asian Youth Chess Championships and Asian Youth Rapid and Blitz Championships, which will be held in Bali, Indonesia. This event will be held from 13th (arrival) to 22nd (departure) October 2022.
The Official Hotel (4 stars) are The Grand Inna Kuta Hotel and The Kuta Beach Heritage Hotel. Distance between these two hotels is about 400 meters or 5 minutes away on foot. The Official Venue is the Grand Inna Kuta Hotel, which is also the official hotel.
Entitled player must not have reached his/her respective birthday before January 1st, 2022 as follows:
The tournament will be played using the Swiss System with 9 rounds. The rate of play will be:
Standard 90 minutes for the whole game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Time Control for Rapid 15 minutes + 10 seconds and 7 rounds.
Time Control for Blitz 3 minutes + 2 seconds and 9 rounds.
Prizes
The top three players in each event will be awarded gold, silver and bronze medals.
Three best Federations, by ranking of medals collected in all categories in Standard Chess, will receive a trophy. For ranking, the number of gold medals will be considered first, and if there is a tie, then the number of silver medals, and if there is still a tie, then the number of bronze medals. If finally this is still tied, then the total number of medal winners in Standard, Rapid and Blitz applies.
Team Medals – will be awarded based on the total score of the top three players of a country. Countries with less than 2 players will not be eligible for a team award. In case of any tie, the tie-break scores of each player shall be considered.
The champions of Asian Youth Championships shall have the personal right to participate in the World Youth Championship of the corresponding age-category or a higher age-category if the stipulation age limit is met. This privilege may be exercised once exclusively in the subsequent year following the year of qualification.
E-Certificates of Participation shall be given to all participants.
Direct FIDE Titles
Gold medalists of U18 categories shall be awarded the title of International Master (IM)/Woman International Master (WIM). 1st equal player shall get IM norm. The Silver & Bronze Medal winners shall be awarded the FIDE Master (FM)/Woman FIDE Master (WFM) title.
Gold medalists of U16 category shall be awarded the title of FM/WFM and an IM/WIM norm. 1st equal player will get FM/WFM title. The Silver & Bronze Medal winners shall be awarded the Candidate Master (CM)/Woman Candidate Master (WCM) title.
Gold medalists of U12 & U14 categories shall be awarded the title of FM/WFM. The Silver & Bronze Medal winners shall be awarded the CM/WCM title.
Gold, Silver & Bronze Medal (after tie break up to 3 players) winners of the U8 & U10 categories shall be awarded the CM/WCM title.