FIDE has just published in its Handbook the new title regulations applicable to World and Pan American events for the under-17, 15, 13, 11, 9, and 7 age categories.
Our Confederation, through its board, submitted a detailed proposal last November to the FIDE QualificationCommission. Its objective was to equate the World and Pan American events for under-18 to 8 age categories (even-age events) with the odd-age events (under-17 to 7 age categories).
CCA is pleased to announce that, following this request from the Americas, the Rating Commission and the FIDE Council evaluated the equivalence of odd-age titles, updating the title table for World and Pan American events in odd-age categories.
We are very happy and grateful for the positive assessment of our proposal, as young players from the Americas and around the world will benefit in their efforts at the chessboard.
The details of the proposal were as follows:
The new FIDE publication – Titles effective from 1 January 2026:
World Open Events
Continental Open Events (Pan American)
Women’s World Events
Women’s Continental Events (Pan American Games)
Reference: https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01DirectTitles2026
CCA continues working to demonstrate sufficient criteria and facts so that other tournaments can also achieve correct valuations.
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