{"id":22737,"date":"2023-06-26T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T12:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=22737"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:51:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:51:11","slug":"world-schools-team-championship-2023-in-aktau-kazakhstan-registration-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/world-schools-team-championship-2023-in-aktau-kazakhstan-registration-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"World Schools Team Championship 2023 in Aktau, Kazakhstan: Registration is open"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22737\" class=\"elementor elementor-22737\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7cea845d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"7cea845d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41640d62\" data-id=\"41640d62\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78698065 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78698065\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>FIDE and the Kazakhstan Chess Federation invite all FIDE member federations and eligible players to participate in the World Schools Team Championship 2023 (WSTC). The competition will be held in Aktau, Kazakhstan (Caspian seaside) from August 3 (arrivals) to August 8 (departures), 2023. The playing venue is Halyk Arena.<\/p><p>The championship will be played in two categories:<\/p><ul><li>Under 12 (players who shall not have reached the age of 12 before January 1, 2023).<\/li><li>Under 18 (players who shall not have reached the age of 18 before January 1, 2023).<\/li><\/ul><p>National Federations may allocate a maximum of three qualifying places to the two categories in total. Each team shall consist of four main players, one reserve, and one non-playing captain. All members of the team\u00a0<strong>must have a FIDE ID<\/strong>.<\/p><p>About 50 National Federations first to enter with preliminary confirmation of participation in WSTC have already received the right to nominate one of their teams to have \u201cinvited team\u201d status (with free accommodation and a travel grant), and the Organizing Committee will contact them directly.<\/p><p>The deadline for registration is\u00a0<strong>July 3, 2023.<\/strong><\/p><p>The registration form is available for all the teams via the following link:\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wstcc2023.fide.com\/registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/wstcc2023.fide.com\/registration\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>FIDE member federations will be able to add data or modify the registration using an<strong>\u00a0edit link<\/strong>\u00a0before the registration deadline. The edit link will be delivered via an official email provided during the registration. Photos for accreditation and passport data for a visa should be prepared beforehand.<\/p><p>Contact email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:wstcc@fide.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wstcc@fide.com<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/docs\/regulations\/Invitation%20Letter_WSTC%202023_Aktau.pdf\">Regulations and invitation letter (pdf)<\/a><\/p><p>Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/welcome.kz\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">welcome.kz<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIDE and the Kazakhstan Chess Federation invite all FIDE member federations and eligible players to participate in the World Schools Team Championship 2023 (WSTC). The competition will be held in Aktau, Kazakhstan (Caspian seaside) from August 3 (arrivals) to August 8 (departures), 2023. The playing venue is Halyk Arena. The championship will be played in two categories: Under 12 (players who shall not have reached the age of 12 before January 1, 2023). Under 18 (players who shall not have reached the age of 18 before January 1, 2023). National Federations may allocate a maximum of three qualifying places to the two categories in total. Each team shall consist of four main players, one reserve, and one non-playing captain. All members of the team\u00a0must have a FIDE ID. About 50 National Federations first to enter with preliminary confirmation of participation in WSTC have already received the right to nominate one of their teams to have \u201cinvited team\u201d status (with free accommodation and a travel grant), and the Organizing Committee will contact them directly. The deadline for registration is\u00a0July 3, 2023. The registration form is available for all the teams via the following link:\u00a0https:\/\/wstcc2023.fide.com\/registration\/\u00a0 FIDE member federations will be able to add data or modify the registration using an\u00a0edit link\u00a0before the registration deadline. The edit link will be delivered via an official email provided during the registration. Photos for accreditation and passport data for a visa should be prepared beforehand. Contact email:\u00a0wstcc@fide.com Regulations and invitation letter (pdf) Photo:\u00a0welcome.kz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[12,156],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-22737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-kazakhstan","tag-youth-chess"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22741,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22737\/revisions\/22741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=22737"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=22737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}