Support for Women’s tournaments

One of our goals is to support organizers of female norm tournaments in Europe in order to increase the number of female players with FIDE titles. We offer a financial support to organizers who are ECU member federations and under following conditions and criteria.

CRITERIA

• The organizing federation must be an ECU member.
• We may support only one application per ECU country per year.
• The closed tournament must be, at least, a WIM norm tournament.
• Majority of the female players must be from ECU member federation.
• Requests for a financial support to be sent to our Women’s commission till the end of February for the tournaments being organized between March and May 2023.
• Requests for a financial support to be sent to our Women’s commission till the end of April for the tournaments being organized between June and December 2023.

OUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT

• This year we can offer a financial support to 3-4 organizers, as following:

• WIM norm tournament => support of 600 EUR/tournament
• WGM norm tournament => support of 750 EUR/tournament

• Financial funding will be provided after half of the rounds have been played.

PRIORITY FOR THE SUPPORT

• Tournaments for which ECU Women’s Commission can nominate one player (from countries with fewer WIM/WGM players, depending on a tournament type) will have a priority. ECU nominated female player should have a minimum rating of 2030 for a WIM norm tournament, or 2180 for a WGM norm tournament, depending on the tournament’s norm (in order not to lower the tournament rating average).
• Organizers of European Federations with fewer WIM/WGM female players will have a priority to get our support.

Please submit your request with following information to us:

1. Type of the women’s tournament (WIM or WGM).
2. Tournament director.
3. Country and date of the tournament.
4. Tournament link, if available.
5. List of the players and average rating of the players.

The program “Supported by the FIDE Development fund“