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FIDE World Amateur Championship 2012 |
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Thursday, 01 December 2011 07:35 |
We are pleased to announce that the World Amateur Championship 2012 will take place in the 5-star Porto Carras Grand Resort, Greece from 16 April (1st round) to 22 April (9th round), 2012, as a part of the “Porto Carras Games Festival 2012″.
The annual Games Festival is a mass event organised for the 8th consecutive year and it includes a series of tournaments & competitions in prestigious games like chess, bridge, scrabble, strategic games, etc.
The FIDE World Amateur Championship is for the players with a FIDE rating of 2000 and less (FIDE Handbook D.VIII.02) and it offers a guaranteed prize fund of 4,000 euros.
Players with a higher rating can participate in the parallel international open tournament “Alexander the Great 2012″ which will also have an additional prize fund of 4,000 euros.
 Porto Carras playing hall  Porto Carras aerial view
So the chess competitions of the 2012 Games Festival will include tournaments for all the members of a chess family!
Download the official regulations of the event in PDF format.
Further information can also be found on the official website of the festival www.gamesfestival.com as well as on our page in Facebook.
The deadline for registrations and bookings is on 12 March 2012.
Best regards and we are looking forward to seeing you in Porto Carras this April!
Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou
for the Organising Committee
Games Festival 2012
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