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2026 FIDE World Rapid and Blitz U7-U17 Chess Championships, Egypt

Official institutional identities

  • FIDE, International Chess Federation
  • Egyptian Chess Federation
  • Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports
  • Egyptian Olympic Committee

Gallery

Championship gallery

Photographic plates of the host city, and the championship's own record once play begins.

Islamic Cairo
Host city
Cairo, Egypt
Dates
8–15 December 2026
Categories
6 · Open & Girls
Format
Rapid & Blitz · 11 rounds
Opens in
Playing

§ 14Plates

The place, printed

Cairo and Giza as the delegations will find them. Championship photography replaces this sheet during the event.

The Great Sphinx of Giza in hard afternoon shadow, the pyramid of Khafre beyond
Pl. I
The Great Sphinx, afternoon
Cairo minarets seen between the stone crenellations of the Citadel wall
Pl. II
Citadel wall, Cairo
The minarets of Islamic Cairo layered into the haze above the rooftops
Pl. III
Islamic Cairo
Cairo from above, domes and minarets against the towers of the modern city
Pl. IV
Cairo, from the Citadel
Players at the boards in a national-flag-lined tournament hall
Pl. V
A championship hall · Chess Olympiad, 2012
Awaiting official photography

Championship, Opening Ceremony, Games, Players, Awards. Published here as the Organizing Committee releases it.