The Irish Chess Union

In the selection stage, every FIDE Continent will run a 7-round Swiss tournament for each one of the categories (U10 open, U10 girls, et cetera). Each Member Federation can register one player per each category and, besides, players ranked Continental top-10 in each one of the categories is also invited.

The time control for the selection stage will be 10 minutes + 3 seconds increment starting from the first move.