Sunday, November 27, 2011

Awonder Liang wins World Youth Gold


Awonder Liang, winner of the 2011 Susan Polgar Foundation World Open for Boys (picture above) in Chicago, has just captured the Gold medal at the World Youth under 8 in Brazil. He was a full point ahead of the field going into the final round. In spite of the last round lost, he still won on tiebreaks.

Boys under 8

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Liang Awonder USA 1872 7.5 43.0 0.0 3 2 1.85 0.15 15 2.3
2

Ram Aravind L N IND 1869 7.5 38.0 0.0 2 2 0.90 1.10 15 16.5
3

Yu Kaifeng CHN 0 7.5 36.0 0.0 5 3.5



4

Thilakaratne G M H SRI 1528 7.5 34.0 0.0 1 1 0.08 0.92 30 27.6
5

Teclaf Pawel POL 1594 7.0 35.0 0.0 1 0 0.17 -0.17 30 -5.1
6

Medvedyk Volodymir UKR 0 6.5 35.0 0.0 7 4.5



7

Peng David T USA 1945 6.5 34.5 0.0 1 0 0.60 -0.60 30 -18.0
8

Gavrilescu David ROU 1800 6.5 29.5 0.0 0 0 0.00 0.00 30 0.0

Boys under 10


Silver medalist Li Ruifeng, recent participant of the SPICE Cup Amateur Open in Lubbock, Texas

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Zhu Yi CHN 0 7.5 42.0 0.0 7 6



2

Li Ruifeng USA 1919 7.0 39.5 0.0 7 6 4.22 1.78 15 26.7
3

Rathanvel V S IND 1906 7.0 38.5 0.0 7 6 4.33 1.67 15 25.0
4

Aleksandrov Zakhar RUS 2116 7.0 38.0 0.0 7 5.5 5.96 -0.46 30 -13.8
5

Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 1865 7.0 37.0 0.0 7 5 4.31 0.69 15 10.4
6
FM Tabatabaei M Amin IRI 2028 7.0 36.5 0.0 6 4.5 4.65 -0.15 15 -2.3
7

Poghosyan Tigran GER 1770 7.0 34.0 0.0 4 2 1.79 0.21 15 3.2
8

Xie Tianming USA 0 7.0 33.5 0.0 6 4.5


Jeffrey Xiong, recent winner of the SPICE Cup Amateur Open in Lubbock, Texas

Boys under 12

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Karthikeyan Murali IND 2154 7.5 39.5 0.0 9 7.5 5.97 1.53 15 23.0
2
FM Gledura Benjamin HUN 2230 7.5 39.0 0.0 8 6.5 6.26 0.24 15 3.6
3

Song Michael CAN 2032 7.0 37.0 0.0 9 7 5.11 1.89 15 28.4
4
FM Lorparizangeneh Shahin IRI 2175 7.0 37.0 0.0 9 7 7.02 -0.02 15 -0.3
5
FM Xiong Jeffrey USA 2056 7.0 36.0 0.0 9 7 5.76 1.24 15 18.6
6

Haria Ravi ENG 2045 7.0 35.5 0.0 9 7 5.68 1.32 15 19.8
7

Tari Aryan NOR 2227 7.0 35.0 0.0 7 5 5.61 -0.61 15 -9.1

Boys under 18

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1
GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2556 8.0 43.0 0.0 9 8 6.68 1.32 10 13.2
2
GM Fedoseev Vladimir RUS 2523 7.0 37.5 0.0 9 7 6.53 0.47 10 4.7
3
IM Debashis Das IND 2369 7.0 36.0 0.0 9 7 5.04 1.96 10 19.6
4

Stany G A IND 2395 7.0 33.5 0.0 9 7 5.92 1.08 10 10.8
5

Kozganbay Erken KAZ 2249 6.5 33.0 0.0 9 6.5 3.50 3.00 15 45.0
6
IM Zhou Yang-Fan ENG 2436 6.5 32.5 0.0 9 6.5 6.26 0.24 10 2.4
7

Graf Felix GER 2356 6.5 32.5 0.0 9 6.5 5.79 0.71 15 10.6
8
IM Mammadov Zaur Fazahir Oglu AZE 2349 6.0 35.0 0.0 9 6 5.07 0.93 10 9.3
9
FM Rosen Eric S USA 2305 6.0 33.5 0.0 9 6 4.18 1.82 15 27.3
10
WGM Cori T. Deysi *
PER 2414 6.0 32.5 0.0 9 6 5.62 0.38 10 3.

Full standings in all sections here: http://chess-results.com/tnr58159.aspx