FIDE allows "playing up" - please take a look at this link - thanks
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Originally Posted by
Aris Marghetis
But I thought that FIDE did not allow playing up during the WYCC. That would change my position. Does someone know definitively? I suggest we proceed from that point.
http://www.fide.com/component/handbo...0&view=article
D.VI.04. World Youth (Girls) -10,12,14 Championships
D.VI.04. World Youth (Girls) -8,10,12,14 Championships
Regulations for the World Youth (Girls)-8, 10, 12, 14 Championships.
Approved by the 1988 General Assembly and amended by the 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998 General Assemblies.
Frequency
1.
The World Youth Chess Festival for Peace shall be organized annually under the aegis of FIDE and endorsed by the United Nations by a federation entrusted with the task by the General Assembly at least one year in advance. (GA `94)The Festival shall include as separate competitions:
the World Boys-8, 10, 12, 14 Championships, and the World Girls-8, 10, 12, 14 Championships.
In the following "he, him, etc." stand for "she, her, etc." as appropriate.
Participation
2.
The participant must not have reached his 10th, 12th, or 14th birthday, respectively, on January 1st of the year in which the tournament is held. For example, each participant in the Boys (Girls)-14 competition of 1989, must be born before 1.1.75.
3.
(GA `93) The players placed 1-3 in a previous World Youth Championship, and the champions of Continental Boys (Girls)-8, 10, 12 and 14 championships, shall have the personal right to participate in the World Youth Championship of the corresponding age-category or a higher age-category if the stipulation of Art. 2 is met. This privilege may be exercised once exclusively in the subsequent year following the year of qualification.
4.
In addition to the players mentioned in Art. 3, each FIDE member-federation shall have the right to send one representative to each Championship. The organizing federation shall have a second place in each Championship, and shall hold a substitute player in each tournament to complete the required number of participants. Girls may take the place of boys, so a federation may be represented by a girl in the boy`s section and a girl in the girl`s section.
http://www.fide.com/component/handbo...0&view=article