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

Important! Change of Playing Schedule for World Youth

Change of Playing Schedule for World Youth

The World Youth Championships will take place at Caldas Novas, Brazil from November 17th to 27th 2011.

The Executive Board Meeting in Krakow considered whether the schedule for this year’s World Youth Championships should be amended. The change of venue from Rio de Janeiro to Caldas Novas has meant that there are only nine possible playing days. The inspection team recommended that the playing schedule be reduced to nine rounds with a double round day for the 3rd and 4th rounds followed by a rest day. This was accepted by the Executive Board.

Events such as the World Youth Championships are not only chess events but an opportunity for the participants and accompanying persons to experience the cultural side of the country that they are visiting. This is likely to be the first visit to Brazil by the majority. This is the reason that it was recommended to keep the free day that has been included in past events and is part of the regulations. A full programme of excursions will be offered to all participants on this free day and also for those interested on other days.

Caldas Novas is a resort town of hot springs with many hotels, at least six of which will be used for the Youth Championships. The town is a drive of just over 2 hours from the nearest airport, Goiania and about three hours drive from the capital, Brasilia. There are many flights each day to Goiania from such places as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Brasilia has direct flight links with several countries, including the USA, Columbia, Peru and Portugal.

Participants will be met at the two main airports and transported to their hotel. All the hotels are within walking distance of the playing venue although there will be bus transportation for one hotel that is a little further away than the others. Five of the hotels belong to one group and offer free internet, full board plus swimming pools and free access to the local Water Park. The economy hotel is without these facilities and only offers breakfast.