{"id":43128,"date":"2026-01-27T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=43128"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:04:19","slug":"fide-amateur-world-championships-2026-bids-received-and-under-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/fide-amateur-world-championships-2026-bids-received-and-under-review\/","title":{"rendered":"FIDE Amateur World Championships 2026: Bids received and under review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"43128\" class=\"elementor elementor-43128\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de23a4f e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"de23a4f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e6c840c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"e6c840c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIDE-Blue-3.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-37146\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIDE-Blue-3.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIDE-Blue-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/FIDE-Blue-3-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-348385e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"348385e\" 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>The FIDE Events Commission has received multiple bids for the 2026 World Amateur Championships. By the deadline of January 26, 2026, four bids were submitted for the 2026 World Amateur Championships and one bid for the 2026 World Amateur Rapid &amp; Blitz Championships.<\/p><p><strong>Bids for the World Amateur Championships (new format)<\/strong>:<\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">UAE, Fujairah: proposed dates October 15\u201322, 2026<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Spain, Sitges: proposed dates October 29 \u2013 November 5, 2026<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">China, Shenzhen: proposed dates October 15\u201325, 2026<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigeria, Abuja: proposed dates September 1\u20138, 2026<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Bid for the World Amateur Rapid &amp; Blitz Championships (new tournament)<\/strong>:<\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigeria, Abuja: proposed dates May 31\u2013June 8, 2026<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p>The evaluation process is now underway. FIDE will announce the selected hosts in due course.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIDE Events Commission has received multiple bids for the 2026 World Amateur Championships. By the deadline of January 26, 2026, four bids were submitted for the 2026 World Amateur Championships and one bid for the 2026 World Amateur Rapid &amp; Blitz Championships. Bids for the World Amateur Championships (new format): UAE, Fujairah: proposed dates October 15\u201322, 2026 Spain, Sitges: proposed dates October 29 \u2013 November 5, 2026 China, Shenzhen: proposed dates October 15\u201325, 2026 Nigeria, Abuja: proposed dates September 1\u20138, 2026 Bid for the World Amateur Rapid &amp; Blitz Championships (new tournament): Nigeria, Abuja: proposed dates May 31\u2013June 8, 2026 The evaluation process is now underway. FIDE will announce the selected hosts in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[67,75],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-43128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-amateur-competitions","tag-fide-world-amateur-championship"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43128"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43135,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43128\/revisions\/43135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43128"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=43128"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=43128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}