Tuesday, November 24, 2009

2009 World Youth Chess Championships

The 2009 World Youth Chess Championships was held in Antalya/Turkey from the 11th -23rd of November. We had two very notable top placings. In the U8, the top seed was Candidate Master Jorian Jared Acosta Cubides (2015). In the U12, the top seed was untitled Suri Vaibhav (2344).

Here are the final results for the under 12:
1st FM Bobby Cheng (2202) with 9/11 (Under 12 World Champion)
2nd-4th FM Jan-Krzysztof Duda (2079), Richard Wang (2044) and David Paravyan (2021) with 8.5/11

Here are the final results for the under 8:
1st Aryan Gholami (1950) with 9/11
2nd-5th Tanuj Vasudeva, Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (1678), Anton Smirnov (1853), Abdulla Azaroglu Qadimbayli with 8.5/11

Click here to see other results.

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