World Youth Championships

Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (chessbase)

This year the World Youth Championships took place from the 18th to the 26th of November in Caldas Novas, Brazil, perhaps the biggest hydro-thermal resort in the World. The Armenian Samvel Ter-Sahakyan won the Under-18s open by a whole point, while Meri Arabidze from Georgia became the World Girls (u-18) Champion. Russia with three golds was the most successful country.

Here are the top players in the main event (under 18s open):

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel	ARM	2556	8.0	43.0
2	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	RUS	2523	7.0	37.5
3	IM	Debashis Das	IND	2369	7.0	36.0
4		Stany G A	IND	2395	7.0	33.5
5		Kozganbay Erken	KAZ	2249	6.5	33.0
6	IM	Zhou Yang-Fan	ENG	2436	6.5	32.5
7		Graf Felix	GER	2356	6.5	32.5
8	IM	Mammadov Zaur Fazahir Oglu	AZE	2349	6.0	35.0
9	FM	Rosen Eric S	USA	2305	6.0	33.5
10	WGM	Cori T. Deysi	PER	2414	6.0	32.5
11	FM	Espinoza Palomino Willyam	PER	2273	6.0	31.0
12		Salinas Herrera Pablo	CHI	2307	6.0	31.0
13		Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu	ROU	2309	6.0	31.0
14	FM	Aghasaryan Robert	ARM	2331	6.0	29.5
15		Gusain Himal	IND	2226	6.0	29.5

Note the presence of Deysi Cori T who tried her luck in the 'boys' event this time. The Indians managed to get three into the top fifteen! Both the English and USA participants made it to the top ten.

Most of these will go onto greater things in their chess career.

The girls under-18s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	WIM	Arabidze Meri	GEO	2329	8.0	40.0
2	WGM	Kashlinskaya Alina	RUS	2377	7.5	40.0
3	WFM	Enkhtuul Altanulzii	MGL	2183	6.5	36.5
4	WIM	Papp Petra	HUN	2265	6.5	36.0
5	WIM	Abdulla Khayala	AZE	2216	6.5	33.0
6		Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz	UZB	2135	6.5	31.5

The open under-16 medalists:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	GM	Cori Jorge	PER	2482	7.5	35.5
2	IM	Pouya Idani	IRI	2427	7.5	34.0
3		Igambergenov Alibek	KAZ	2259	7.0	33.0

The Cori family can add a gold to their collection of medals!

The World girls U-16 champion was no surprise:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	WIM	Ziaziulkina Nastassia	BLR	2272	7.5	40.0
2		Klek Hanna-Marie	GER	2154	7.5	37.0
3	WFM	Salazar Aura Cristina	COL	2237	7.5	36.0

The open u-14s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	FM	Alekseenko Kirill	RUS	2351	8.0	38.0
2	FM	Cuellar Diego	PER	2179	7.5	36.5
3	FM	Antal Tibor Kende	HUN	2352	7.0	34.0

The Russian Federation also won the gold in the girls u-14s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	WFM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	RUS	2313	9.0	45.0
2	WFM	Styazhkina Anna	RUS	2063	7.5	38.0
3	WIM	Khademalsharieh Sarasadat	IRI	2215	7.0	39.0
4	WCM	Chiang Sarah	USA	2056	7.0	37.0

The US girl only missing out on a medal on tie-break.

The open u-12s was even tighter, with five players sharing equal third. The Canadian Song just edged out the Iranian Lorparizangeneh and had the best overall performance of the group on 7/9.

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1		Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2154	7.5	39.5
2	FM	Gledura Benjamin	HUN	2230	7.5	39.0
3		Song Michael	CAN	2032	7.0	37.0
4	FM	Lorparizangeneh Shahin	IRI	2175	7.0	37.0
5	FM	Xiong Jeffrey	USA	2056	7.0	36.0
6		Haria Ravi	ENG	2045	7.0	35.5
7		Tari Aryan	NOR	2227	7.0	35.0

The girls u-12s required tie-breaks for both silver and bronze:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	WIM	Abdumalik Zhansaya	KAZ	2091	8.0	43.0
2	WFM	Vasenina Anna	RUS	2018	7.0	38.0
3		Tohirjonova Gulruhbegim	UZB	1858	7.0	35.0
4	WCM	Dordzhieva Dinara	RUS	2028	7.0	35.0
5		Unuk Laura	SLO	1737	7.0	33.5

The USA obtained a silver in the open u-10s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1		Zhu Yi	CHN	0	7.5	42.0
2		Li Ruifeng	USA	1919	7.0	39.5
3		Rathanvel V S	IND	1906	7.0	38.5
4		Aleksandrov Zakhar	RUS	2116	7.0	38.0
5		Rakesh Kumar Jena	IND	1865	7.0	37.0
6	FM	Tabatabaei M Amin	IRI	2028	7.0	36.5
7		Poghosyan Tigran	GER	1770	7.0	34.0
8		Xie Tianming	USA	0	7.0	33.5

The girls u-10s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	WCM	Obolentseva Alexandra	RUS	1853	8.0	42.5
2		Radeva Viktoria	BUL	1755	7.0	35.0
3		Arda Cagil Irmak	TUR	1547	7.0	32.0

The open u-8s and gold for the USA:

Rank	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1	Liang Awonder	USA	1872	7.5	43.0
2	Ram Aravind L N	IND	1869	7.5	38.0
3	Yu Kaifeng	CHN	0	7.5	36.0
4	Thilakaratne G M H	SRI	1528	7.5	34.0

The girls u-8s:

Rank	Title	Name	Country	Rating	Points	Tie-Break
1		Assaubayeva Bibissara	KAZ	0	8.0	39.0
2	WCM	Tran Vuong Mai Khanh	VIE	1785	7.0	41.5
3		Salonika Saina	IND	1380	6.5	34.0
4		Lakshmi C	IND	1410	6.5	33.0
5		Zhang Taylor	CAN	0	6.5	29.0

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