World Youth Chess Championships Postponed
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - World chess governing body FIDE announced that the 2020 World Youth Chess Championships will be postponed.
The competition was originally slated for September 2020 in Romania.
"The FIDE Management Board received and duly examined a request from the World Youth Chess Championship 2020 organizers; and there still exists a large degree of uncertainty in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic," wrote the FIDE on its website.
FIDE announced that the championship will be postponed to a later date, with the new schedule to be announced no later than four months before the start of the event.
