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May 22, 2020 No 16_02_2020

The FIDE Management Board

EXCERPT from MEETING MINUTES

The meeting # 60 of the FIDE Management Board was convened at 12:00 UTC on Friday, May 22, 2020.

The following is a list of participants in the May 22, 2020 MB meeting. ● Arkady Dvorkovich, FIDE President, Chairman of the Management Board. ● Igor Kogan, Deputy Chairman of the FIDE Management Board. ● Zhu Chen, FIDE Treasurer. ● Victor Bologan, FIDE Executive Director. ● Emil Sutovsky, FIDE Director General. ● Willy Iclicki, Chief Operating Officer. ● Mohd Al-Mudahka, FIDE International Director. ● Berik Balgabaev, Advisor to the FIDE President ● Vadim Tsypin, Assistant to the FIDE President, Secretary of the FIDE Management Board. ● Aleksandr Martynov, FIDE Legal Advisor.

M-05 Romanian Chess Federation’s request to postpone the 2020 World Youth Chess Championships

DECISION MB-2020-030, taken on 2020-05-22:

" WHEREAS the FIDE Management Board received and duly examined a request from the World Youth Chess Championship 2020 organizers; and WHEREAS there still exists a large degree of uncertainty in the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: 1. To postpone the World Youth Chess Championship 2020 scheduled for September 2020 to a later date. 2. To determine the new dates of the World Youth Chess Championship 2020 in coordination with the organizers, taking into account the epidemiological situation. 3. To announce the new dates no later than four (4) months before the start of the event. "

Vadim Tsypin Secretary of the FIDE Management Board