World Junior and Girls U20 Chess Championships
08.02.2010 INVITATION
Welcome to official website of World Junior and Girls U20 Chess Championships – Chotowa, Czarna 2010!
Organizing Committee acting on behalf of the Polish Chess Federation has a great pleasure and a honor in inviting young players of 168 federations, members of the International Chess Federation FIDE to take part in the World Junior and Girls U-20 Championships be held in Chotowa, Municipality Czarna, close to the city of Tarnow, Poland, from August 2 to 17, 2010.
We hope to host the best young players in the World and we prepared for you the highest prize fund in the history of the Championships – the amount of 25,400 Euro. We are trying to prepare also the best conditions of stay (comfortable rooms with TV and Internet), the best Polish food and good program to rest after games – the lake, swimming pool, sport hall, playground and other sport facilities.
Welcome to Poland!
Jan Kusina
Andrzej Grygiel
Józef Chudy
http://www.wjcc2010.pl/en
Who won it last year?
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat out GM Sergei Zhigalko on tiebreak to become the 2009 World Junior Champion.