International Master SP Sethuraman clinched the Gold medal in the Under 16 category edging fellow Indian Vidit Santosh Gujrathi in the tie-breaks at the World Youth Chess Championship, Antalya, Turkey. Both finished with 9.0 points from eleven, a clear full point ahead of the next placed participant, indicating their dominance in this event.

National Under 11 Champion Karthikeyan Murali performed when it mattered clinching the silver medal with 9/11 performance in the Open Under 10 section. Tying for the first spot with two Chinese, Karthikeyan took the second spot on tie-breaks.

FIDE Master G V Sai Krishna continued with his impressive show taking the bronze medal in Open Under 14 category with 8.5/11 score. Grandmaster Elect Cori Jorge (2462) of Peru took the Gold in this section, while Silver went to Polish boy Dragun Kamil.

Experienced Woman Candidate Master Ivana Maria Furtado settled for silver in the Under 10 Girls category with a final score of 8.5 points. A further bronze for J Saranya (8.5)  in the Under 14 Girls section warmed the hearts of Indian women contingent, even as the trio of Bansi Prathima, Lasya Goli and CH Meghna finished fourth, trifle unlucky in missing the medal in their respective Groups.

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Open Under 8

1 2 GHOLAMI Aryan 1950 IRI 9 59

2 119 VASUDEVA Tanuj 0 USA 8½ 55

3 11 TABATABAEI M Amin 1678 IRI 8½ 54

4 3 SMIRNOV Anton 1853 AUS 8½ 54

5 94 QADIMBAYLI Abdulla A 0 AZE 8½

6 7 ARYAN Chopra 1705 IND 8 49½

8 9 MITRABHA Guha 1691 IND 8 47

20 83 NITISH Belurkar 0 IND 7 44½

21 96 RAJARYAN Kuvelkar 0 IND 7 41

40 8 PRAMEYA Garge 1693 IND 6½ 32

Open Under 10

1-3 75 BAI Jinshi 0 CHN 9 57½

7 KARTHIKEYAN Murali 1969 IND 9 54½

148 ZHANG Han Yu 0 CHN 9 52

4-5 10 KHANIN Semen 1956 RUS 8½ 52½

13 HETUL Shah 1903 IND 8½ 52½

6-8 70 ASGHARZADEH M R 0 IRI 8 50

71 36 HARSHAL Shahi 1779 IND 5½ 36½

Open Under 12

1 4 Cheng Bobby 2202 AUS 9 52

2-4 22 FM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2079 POL 8½ 54

27 Wang Richard 2044 CAN 8½ 52½

35 Paravyan David 2021 RUS 8½ 47

5-10 5 CM Antipov Mikhail Al 2200 RUS 20857 8 56½

1 Vaibhav Suri 2344 IND 20839 8 55

52 Dastan Batuhan 1959 TUR 8 51½

14 Ghosh Diptayan 2124 IND 8 49

12 FM Gagare Shardul 2138 IND 8 48

3 FM Girish A Koushik 2246 IND 8 46½

51 2 FM Das Sayantan 2294 IND 6 38

60 95 Bhaskar Arun Gupta 1710 IND 6 30½

69 59 Cyrus Pereira 1925 IND 5½ 35

Open Under 14

1 IM Cori Jorge 2462 PER 9 56½

2 Dragun Kamil 2284 POL 8½ 51

3 FM Sai Krishna G V 2225 IND 8½ 50

4 Bortnik Alexandr 2347 UKR 8½ 49½

5 FM Andersen Mads 2294 DEN 8 21604 48½

6 Idani Pouya 2218 IRI 8 21005 47

15 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 2219 IND 7½ 44½

30 Tejas Ravichandran 2203 IND 6½ 46

67 Nihal Manjunath 1988 IND 5½ 35½

Open Under 16

1 7 IM Sethuraman S P 2447 IND 9 23811

2 6 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2459 IND 9 23782

3 12 FM Lagarde Maxime 2393 FRA 8 23782

4 2 IM Nyzhnyk Illya 2494 UKR 8 23394

5 10 FM Urkedal Frode 2409 NOR 8 23327

6 14 Debashis Das 2381 IND 8 22869

21 24 FM Prasanna Rao 2310 IND 7 41

24 21 Udeshi Aditya 2330 IND 6½ 44½

23 Sochacki Christophe 2319 FRA 6½ 44½

31 Raznikov Danny 2290 ISR 6½ 44

18 FM Priyadharshan K 2343 IND 6½ 42½

57 51 Deepthamsh Reddy M 2192 IND 5½ 34½

68 87 Jitendria Vels 1977 IND 5½ 26½

Open Under 18

1 1 IM Matlakov Maxim 2575 RUS 9 53

2 2 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan 2562 ESP 8½ 56

3 13 IM Piorun Kacper 2475 POL 8 24161

4 17 IM Rozum Ivan 2458 RUS 8 24117

5 11 IM Adhiban Baskaran 2486 IND 7½ 24164

6 15 IM Yilmaz Mustafa 2468 TUR 7½ 24117

29 26 FM Shyam Nikhil P 2393 IND 6½ 39

35 62 Pradeep Kumar Raghu 2202 IND 6½ 32½

Under 8 Girls

1 21 CHU Ruotong 0 CHN 9½ 59½

2 65 PALAKOLLU Samritha 0 USA 8½ 54

3 46 LI Yunshan 0 CHN 8½ 53

4 2 BANSI PRATHIMA M 1562 IND 8 52½

5 75 TURMUNKH Munkhzul 0 MGL 8 49½

6 35 HASHEMI Seyed F 0 IRI 8 48½

10 6 ARPITA Mukherjee 0 IND 7½ 43

12 1 KHUSHI Dharewa 1612 IND 7½ 40½

23 72 TARINI Goyal 0 IND 6½ 43

Under 10 Girls

1 9 Mammadzada Gunay Vugar Qizi 1732 AZE 10½ 65½

2 5 WCM Ivana Maria Furtado 1859 IND 8½ 52

3 WCM Hojjatova Aydan Hikmet Qizi 1846 AZE 8½ 47½

4 15 Meghna C H 1669 IND 8 47

5 7 Liu Kexin 1832 CHN 7½ 49½

6 1 WCM Dordzhieva Dinara 1973 RUS 7½ 45½

9 17 Tejaswini Sagar 1602 IND 7½ 43

11 20 Savant Riya 1530 IND 7½ 37½

15 71 Shiny Das 0 IND 7 39½

Under 12 Girls

1 1 WFM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 2018 IRI 10 58½

2 2 WFM Styazhkina Anna 2018 RUS 9½ 59

3 5 WFM Goryachkina Aleksandra 1971 RUS 8½       51½

4 30 Lasya Goli 1750 IND 8 51½

5 13 Menzi Nezihe Ezgi 1847 TUR 8 46

6 48 Khomeriki Nino 1700 GEO 8 45

7 17 Mahalakshmi Muganda Kumar 1828 IND 7½ 49½

20 18 Srija Seshadri 1822 IND 7 42

32 49 Ashwini U 1691 IND 6½ 30½

68 60 Goyal Arunima 1550 IND 5 27½

Under 14 Girls

1 WFM Efroimski Marsel 2150 ISR 9 60

2 WFM Lach Aleksandra 2158 POL 9 52

3 Saranya J 2146 IND 8½ 45

4 Aranaz Murillo Amalia 1994 ESP 8 19454 46½

5 WFM Iwanow Anna 2026 POL 8 19232 45½

6 WCM Saduakassova Dinara 2084 KAZ 7½ 53

15 Nandhidhaa P V 2007 IND 7 45

19 Anjana Krishna S 1908 IND 7 37

35 Pratyusha Bodda 2001 IND 6 39

Under 16 Girls

1 WIM Cori T Deysi 2374 PER

2 WIM Arabidze Meri 2254 GEO

3 WIM Paikidze Nazi 2257 GEO 8 21703

4 WIM Kazimova Narmin N Qizi 2214 AZE 8 21691

5 WFM Shvayger Yuliya 2202 UKR 8 21231

6 WFM Hoang Thi Nhu Y 2150 VIE 8 21229

14 WIM Padmini Rout 2333 IND 7 45½

22 WFM Pujari Rucha 2060 IND 6½ 43

23 WIM Gagare Shalmali 2150 IND 6½ 42

27 Shristi J Shetty 1950 IND 6½ 37½

28 Bharathi R 2148 IND 6½ 37

Under 18 Girls

1 2 WGM Girya Olga 2340 RUS 8½ 22159

2 5 WIM Tsatsalashvili Keti 2288 GEO 8½ 21823

3 17 WIM Ozturk Kubra 2177 TUR 8 22348

4 1 Savina Anastasia 2401 RUS 8 22205

5 11 WFM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan 2201 KAZ 8 21300

6 3 WGM Guramishvili Sopiko 2327 GEO 7½ 21926

7 12 WFM Pon N Krithikha 2196 IND 7½ 42

16 6 WFM Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni 2263 IND 6½ 41½

International Masters Adhiban Baskaran, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, SP Sethuraman improved their medal prospects with crucial victories in the ninth round of the World Youth Chess Championship at Antalya, Turkey. With just two rounds to go, Adhiban moved into the second spot with 7.0 points in the Open Under 18 category, just half a point behind leader GM Salgado Lopez Ivan (7.5) of Spain.

Vidit and Sethuraman shared the top spot with 8.0 points scoring clinical wins in the Open Under 16 section. Vidit meets fellow Indian Debashis Das in the penultimate round encounter on the top board. G V Sai Krishna kept his medal chances in the Open Under 14 category, sharing the second spot with 7.0 points, half a point adrift of Dragun Kamil (7.5) of Poland.

Top seeded Vaibhav Suri (Elo 2344) remained in striking medal distance with 7.0 points from nine rounds, half a point behind the leading duo Attipov Mikhail (Russia) and Pamatmat Jarod M (USA). National U-11 Champion and seventh seed Karthikeyan Murali stood second with 7.0 points, with Bai Jinshi of China leading the table at 8.0 points. Positive results closer to the finishing stages of the event, should spell good for the Indian boy.

Other Indians in medal brackets in various categories include : Ivana Maria Furtado at 7.0 points, Debashis Das, J Saranya, M Mahalakshmi, Diptayan Ghosh, Shardul Gagare, Hetul Shah, Bansi Prathima, Aryan Chopra, Mitrabha Guha, Nitish Belurkar at 6.5 points, Prasanna Rao, Aditya Udeshi, Priyadharshan, Padmini Rout, Shalmali Gagare, Bhakti Kulkarni, G Lasya, Srija Seshadri, CH Meghna at 6.0 points respectively.

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Indian junior G V Sai Krishna with a score of 6.5/8 shared the lead with three others – IM Cori Jorge, Dragun Kamil and Andersen Mads in the Open Under 14 category, while IMs Vidit Santosh Gujrathi and SP Sethuraman led jointly with 7.0/8 in the Open Under 16 category, after eight rounds in the World Youth Chess Championship at Antalya, Turkey.

International Master Adhiban Baskaran kept hopes of repeating his Gold winning show from the previous edition, as he moved half a point behind the leaders at 6.0 points. His next round against IM Piorun Kacper (2475) of Poland could prove crucial for his medal chances.

Mitrabha Guha and Bansi Prathima  in U-8 category , Karthikeyan Murali  and Hetul Shah in U-10 group, along with Vaibhav Suri in U-12 were all at 6.5 points, barely half a point behind the respective group leaders. A positive show in the final three rounds and the medals are well within the reach of these Indian kids.

Other Indians in fray within possible medal distance in their respective are : Ivana Maria Furtado, CH Meghna, Diptayan Ghosh, Goli Lasya at 6.0 points, while Aryan Chopra, Nitish Belurkar, Shardul Gagare, M Mahalakshmi, Tejas Ravichandran, P V Nandhidhaa, J Saranya, Debashis Das, K Priyadharshan were further half a point behind at 5.5 points.

Woman International Masters Padmini Rout and Shalmali Gagare remained at 5.0 points along with R Bharathi in the Under 16 Girls category.

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Indian duo, International Masters Vidit Santosh Gujrathi and S P Sethuraman led the Under 16 Open category with 6/7 score in the World Youth Chess Championship at Antalya, Turkey. Vidit, a gold medalist in the previous edition in Vietnam, is in good nick. Vidit had excellent results in his previous events at St.Petersburg and Mumbai, and is very well fine tuned on way to Turkey.

These two carry big Indian hopes in the Under 16 section, along with Debashis Das (5.0), Priyadharshan (4.5), Aditya Udeshi, Deepthamsh Reddy & Prasanna Rao (all 4.0), all of whom can hit the bulls eye with a good finish in the final stages of the event.

In the highest category of this mega event, International Master and eleventh seed Adhiban Baskaran kept medal hopes intact with a 5.5/7 score. The Chennai based player remained in the third spot and meets Russian IM Matlakov Maxim in the next round.

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Rank after round 7

Under 8 Open

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Pts Fide

1 2 GHOLAMI Aryan 1950 IRI 6½ 27

2 119 VASUDEVA Tanuj 0 USA 6 25

128 ZHAO Shi Yuan 0 CHN 6 25

4 126 ZHALMAKHANOV R 0 KAZ 6 23

5 3 SMIRNOV Anton 1853 AUS 5½ 25

6 11 TABATABAEI Mohd A 1678 IRI 5½ 23

100 SAIDAKBAR Saydaliev 0 UZB 5½ 23

102 SANDOVAL M Carlos 0 MEX 5½ 23

9 107 SHIRINOV Farid 0 AZE 5½ 20

10 9 MITRABHA Guha 1691 IND 5½ 19

24 7 ARYAN Chopra 1705 IND 4½ 22½

29 83 NITISH Belurkar 0 IND 4½ 18½

71 8 PRAMEYA Garge 1693 IND 3½ 12

Under 8 Girls

1 21 CHU Ruotong 0 CHN 6½ 27½

2 65 PALAKOLLU Samritha 0 USA 6 22

3 66 PHAM Vu Linh Chi 0 VIE 5½ 25

4 2 BANSI PRATHIMA M 1562 IND 5½ 24

46 LI Yunshan 0 CHN 5½ 24

6 30 GALSTYAN Irina 0 RUS 5½ 20½

35 HASANZADA Ulkar 0 AZE 5½ 20½

8 36 HASHEMI Seyed F 0 IRI 5 22½

9 59 OBOLENTSEVA A 0 RUS 5 22

10 15 BYCHKOVA Alina 0 RUS 5 21½

14 6 ARPITA Mukherjee 0 IND 5 18

16 1 KHUSHI Dharewa 1612 IND 5 16

26 72 TARINI Goyal 0 IND 4 19½

Under 10 Open

1 115 MKRTCHYAN Mikayel 0 ARM 6½ 25

2 75 BAI Jinshi 0 CHN 6 25

3 146 XU Jialun 0 CHN 6 24

4 13 HETUL Shah 1903 IND 6 23½

5 7 KARTHIKEYAN Murali 1969 IND 5½ 23½

6 10 KHANIN Semen 1956 RUS 5½ 21½

7 22 SHEREMET Anton 1864 BLR 5½ 20½

8 9 PAK Alexander 1960 RUS 5½ 19½

19 HRISTOV Nikolay V 1867 BUL 5½ 19½

10 32 ABDUMALIK Zhansaya 1804 KAZ 5 25

Under 10 Girls

1 9 Mammadzada G V Q 1732 AZE 7 28

2 31 Choladze Tea 0 GEO 6 23

3 3 Drogovoz Irina 1878 RUS 5½ 24½

4 79 Wang Xingliang Anna 0 ENG 5½ 24

5 5 WCM Ivana Maria Furtado 1859 IND 5½ 22½

6 4 WFM Vasenina Anna 1859 RUS 5½ 20

7 7 Liu Kexin 1832 CHN 5 22

8 61 Pham Thanh Phu T 0 VIE 5 21

9 15 Meghna C H 1669 IND 5 20

10 74 Tokhirjonova G 0 UZB 5 20

25 71 Shiny Das 0 IND 4 17½

34 17 Tejaswini Sagar 1602 IND 3½ 19

41 20 Savant Riya 1530 IND 3½ 13½

Under 12 Open

1 5 CM Antipov Mikhail Al 2200 RUS 6½ 26½

2 18 FM Tran Tuan Minh 2105 VIE 6 23½

3 27 Wang Richard 2044 CAN 6 23

32 Pamatmat Jarod M 2029 USA 6 23

5 1 Vaibhav Suri 2344 IND 5½ 25½

6 22 FM Duda Jan-Krzysztof 2079 POL 5½ 24½

7 4 Cheng Bobby 2202 AUS 5½ 22

8 12 FM Gagare Shardul 2138 IND 5½ 21

9 17 Codenotti Marco 2119 ITA 5½ 19½

10 52 Dastan Batuhan 1959 TUR 5 24

16 14 Ghosh Diptayan 2124 IND 5 21

25 3 FM Girish A Koushik 2246 IND 4½ 20½

44 2 FM Das Sayantan 2294 IND 4 17

66 59 Cyrus Pereira 1925 IND 3½ 15½

86 95 Bhaskar Arun Gupta 1710 IND 3 12½

Under 12 Girls

1 2 WFM Styazhkina Anna 2018 RUS 6 26

2 1 WFM Khademalsharieh S 2018 IRI 6 24½

3 5 WFM Goryachkina A 1971 RUS 6 22½

4 38 Bulmaga Elena 1732 MDA 6 21

5 17 Mahalakshmi M 1828 IND 5½ 22½

26 Bitalzadeh Mahsa 1783 NED 5½ 22½

7 28 Derakhshani Dorsa 1764 IRI 5½ 22

8 42 WCM Chiang Sarah 1713 USA 5½ 21½

9 33 Abdimanoglu Beste B 1738 TUR 5½ 20

10 14 Nur Nabila Azman H 1847 MAS 5 24½

11 30 Lasya Goli 1750 IND 5 24½

35 18 Srija Seshadri 1822 IND 4 17

58 49 Ashwini U 1691 IND 3½ 10½

74 60 Goyal Arunima 1550 IND 3 11

Under 14 Open

1 2 IM Cori Jorge 2462 PER 6½ 26

2 14 Gabuzyan Hovhannes 2226 ARM 6 26

3 39 Yuan Yi 2097 AUS 5½ 24½

4 18 CM Grigoryan Karen H 2211 ARM 5½ 23

5 10 Doros Radu-Marian 2260 ROU 5½ 21½

13 Terentjev Vladislav 2232 RUS 5½ 21½

7 8 FM Andersen Mads 2294 DEN 5½ 20½

15 FM Sai Krishna G V 2225 IND 5½ 20½

9 9 Dragun Kamil 2284 POL 5½ 20

10 7 Pardo Simon David 2334 ESP 5 21½

21 19 Tejas Ravichandran 2203 IND 4½ 23

40 16 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan 2219 IND 4 19½

49 65 Nihal Manjunath 1988 IND 4 16½

Under 14 Girls

1 3 WFM Efroimski Marsel 2150 ISR 6½ 26

2 27 Kuchava Ana 1932 GEO 6 24½

3 5 WCM Saduakassova Dinara 2084 KAZ 5½ 25

4 6 Klek Hanna-Marie 2081 GER 5½ 23

17 Kats Alena 2001 USA 5½ 23

6 1 WFM Samigullina Diana 2173 RUS 5½ 21

2 WFM Lach Aleksandra 2158 POL 5½ 21

8 8 Kabai Zsuzsanna 2061 HUN 5 23

9 15 Severina Maria 2008 RUS 5 22

10 101 Verbova Elena 0 UZB 5 21½

15 16 Nandhidhaa Pv 2007 IND 4½ 20½

26 4 Saranya J 2146 IND 4½ 17

44 18 Pratyusha Bodda 2001 IND 3½ 20

52 31 Anjana Krishna S 1908 IND 3½ 14

Under 16 Open

1 6 IM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi 2459 IND 6 26½

2 7 IM Sethuraman S P 2447 IND 6 25

3 3 GM Swiercz Dariusz 2493 POL 5½ 24

12 FM Lagarde Maxime 2393 FRA 5½ 24

5 10 FM Urkedal Frode 2409 NOR 5½ 23

6 2 IM Nyzhnyk Illya 2494 UKR 5½ 21½

7 29 Baghdasaryan Vahe 2294 ARM 5½ 19

8 11 FM Kanarek Marcel 2405 POL 5 23½

9 14 Debashis Das 2381 IND 5 21½

10 22 Galopoulos N 2324 GRE 5 21

28 18 FM Priyadharshan K 2343 IND 4½ 18

33 21 Udeshi Aditya 2330 IND 4 21

36 24 FM Prasanna Rao 2310 IND 4 17

47 51 Deepthamsh Reddy M 2192 IND 4 13½

85 87 Jitendria Vels 1977 IND 3 10

Under 16 Girls

1 1 WIM Cori T Deysi 2374 PER 6½ 27½

2 9 WIM Schut Lisa 2210 NED 6 25

3 5 WIM Arabidze Meri 2254 GEO 5½ 25½

4 7 WIM Bulmaga Irina 2234 MDA 5½ 23

8 WIM Kazimova NNQ 2214 AZE 5½ 23

6 53 Kaya Emel 1909 TUR 5½ 20½

7 3 Papp Petra 2271 HUN 5 23

8 24 WIM Danelia M 2144 GEO 5 22

9 2 WIM Padmini Rout 2333 IND 5 21½

10 10 WIM Butuc Maria 2204 RUS 5 21

19 32 WFM Pujari Rucha 2060 IND 4½ 20

25 23 Bharathi R 2148 IND 4½ 14½

31 20 WIM Gagare S 2150 IND 4 18

45 47 Shristi J Shetty 1950 IND 3½ 16½

Under 18 Open

1 2 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan 2562 ESP 6 25½

2 13 IM Piorun Kacper 2475 POL 6 23

3 1 IM Matlakov Maxim 2575 RUS 5½ 23

4 11 IM Adhiban Baskaran 2486 IND 5½ 21½

5 20 FM Shukh Nikolay 2438 RUS 5 24½

6 15 IM Yilmaz Mustafa 2468 TUR 5 24

7 19 IM Benidze Davit 2450 GEO 5 23

8 7 GM Bogner Sebastian 2504 GER 5 22

9 9 IM Balog Imre 2491 HUN 5 21

10 5 GM Chirila Ioan-Cristian 2510 ROU 5 19½

14 56 Shreyansh Daklia 2236 IND 5 19

33 26 FM Shyam Nikhil P 2393 IND 4 18

53 62 Pradeep Kumar R 2202 IND 3½ 12½

Under 18 Girls

1 1 Savina Anastasia 2401 RUS 6½ 27½

2 17 WIM Ozturk Kubra 2177 TUR 6 24

3 2 WGM Girya Olga 2340 RUS 5½ 21½

4 28 Pavlidou Ekaterini 2128 GRE 5½ 21

5 3 WGM Guramishvili Sopiko 2327 GEO 5½ 18½

6 13 WFM Warakomska Anna 2189 POL 5 23

38 Motycakova Monika 2038 SVK 5 23

8 10 WFM Mammadova Gulnar 2202 AZE 5 20

9 20 WFM Brunello Marina 2158 ITA 5 18½

10 11 WFM Nakhbayeva G 2201 KAZ 5 17

12 12 WFM Pon N Krithikha 2196 IND 4½ 18

19 6 WFM Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni 2263 IND 4 18

Top seeded Vaibhav Suri and International Master Vidit Santosh Gujrathi led their respective groups (U-12 & U-16) with 5.5 points after the sixth round of the world youth chess championship at Antalya, Turkey. In a match up between Indian challengers, Vidit had defeated SP Sethuraman in the fifth round, while Sethu got the better of Debashis Das in the sixth round.

Indians in main point bracket under various categories are : SP Sethuraman, Diptayan Ghosh, Hetul Shah, M Bansi Prathima, G Lasya at 5.0 points, Mitrabha Guha, Karthikeyan Murali, Shardul Gagre, Baskaran Adhiban, Jain Shreyans Daklia, Tejas Ravichandran, G V Sai Krishna, Ivana Mario Furtado, M Mahalakshmi, J Saranya, P V Nandhidhaa, Rucha Pujari, Padmini Rout at 4.5 points, Aryan Chopra, Nitish Belurka, Debashis Das, K Priyadharshan, Prasanna Rao, Aditya Udeshi, Shyam Nikhil, Arpita Mukherjee, Khushi Dharewa, R Bharathi, Bhakthi Kulkarni at 4.0 points.

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WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009
Rank after round 6

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Pts Tie-Break

Under 8 Open

1 2 GHOLAMI Aryan 1950 IRI 5½ 20½
2 3 SMIRNOV Anton 1853 AUS 5½ 19½
3 119 VASUDEVA Tanuj 0 USA 5 19
128 ZHAO Shi Yuan 0 CHN 5 19
5 5 IOANNIDIS Evgenios 1739 GRE 5 18½
80 NEDORUBA Yaroslav 0 UKR 5 18½
7 94 QADIMBAYLI Abdulla Azaroglu 0 AZE 5 17
126 ZHALMAKHANOV Ramazan 0 KAZ 5 17
9 75 LOMASOV Semen 0 RUS 5 15
18 9 MITRABHA Guha 1691 IND 4½ 13½
19 7 ARYAN Chopra 1705 IND 4 18
28 83 NITISH Belurkar 0 IND 4 14
39 96 RAJARYAN Kuvelkar 0 IND 3½ 14½

1 1 Savina Anastasia 2401 RUS 6 21
2 13 WFM Warakomska Anna 2189 POL 5 18
17 WIM Ozturk Kubra 2177 TUR 5 18
4 2 WGM Girya Olga 2340 RUS 5 16
5 19 WFM Eric Jovana 2163 SRB 4½ 18
6 28 Pavlidou Ekaterini 2128 GRE 4½ 15½
7 3 WGM Guramishvili Sopiko 2327 GEO 4½ 13
8 22 WFM Korchagina Victoria 2150 RUS 4 18
38 Motycakova Monika 2038 SVK 4 18
10 10 WFM Mammadova Gulnar 2202 AZE 4 15
33 Gvilava Maya 2061 RUS 4 15
12 6 WFM Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni 2263 IND 4 14
13 20 WFM Brunello Marina 2158 ITA 4 13½
14 26 Richard Emma 2135 FRA 4 13
15 23 WFM Dudas Eszter 2147 HUN 4 12½
16 11 WFM Nakhbayeva Guliskhan 2201 KAZ 4 12
17 14 WFM Havlikova Kristyna 2185 CZE 3½ 14½
18 12 WFM Pon Namasivayam Krithikha 2196 IND 3½ 13½

Well now it is time to talk about the World youth Championship at Antalya, Turkey.  This is a big event for all the aspiring Indian chess players who want to make a name for them in the World scene. In the last year edition at Vietnam, India bagged 4 World titles in Padmini Rout, Adhiban Baskaran, Sayantan Das and Vidit Santosh Gujarathi. This year all of them are playing in higher category with more new faces joining them.

Lack of Chinese opposition in age category events gives Indian kids better chance at the title. It is a curious phenomenon with the Chinese generally showing lack of interest in winning age category titles despite a pool of talent at disposal.

Last year at Vietnam I had come as personal coach for IM Srinath and this year I am part of the 4 member (me, my wife WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy, IM Murugan and IM DV Prasad) coach team to help our kids in their preparation for the games.

The Indian team arrived in 2 batches one from Mumbai and one from Delhi. The travel took almost a day which included 3 flights (Chennai-Delhi, Delhi – Istanbul and Istanbul-Antalya) and a bus journey from Antalya airport to the venue which took 2 hours. Add to this an hour’s wait at the Hotel before we were allotted our rooms and you get the picture.

To add excitement to our journey one of the parent had lost her and her child’s boarding pass (Istanbul- Antalya sector) and had taken as a self compliment the Knife from the cutlery provided in the flight which gave us a hard time in the security check! And yours sincerely had an upset stomach and vomiting to add to the fun. Priyadarshan contributed his part to this by adding two bagful of vomit in the flight. Whack!

The main complaints being the lack of seating arrangements for the parents/coaches/guardians who have to wait standing outside the playing hall with practically no shelter. With rain promising to come any moment, things don’t look too good for us. The securities have been instructed to not allow anyone except players inside the playing arena and that left many coaches, delegates fuming. Later in the day those with visitors pass were allowed inside the playing hall. To add to this there is no toilet facility for the parents who have to wait in the cold for hours  together!

This is the entrance to the tournament hall. Imagine 2000 people need to go inside through this in “zero tolerance era”

The playing hall is so cramped it is practically impossible to move around even for the players. The hotel rooms don’t have Wi-Fi and the players have to go to the lobby for internet and that too for payment. I guess it should be lucrative to organise such events if one is not too bothered about providing basic comforts. The food and the rooms are pretty decent.

The cramped tournament hall view

Ashwini and Pon N Krithika browsing on the net at the Hotel Lobby

Antalya is a beautiful coastal city with mountains on the other side just like in Halong Bay, Vietnam where I was just a few days back as coach for the Indian team for the Asian Indoor games.

Mountain view

The walk from the hotel to the venue and back is exciting with plenty of shopping prospects along the roadside shops. November being off season there are practically no tourists to this place at this time of the year. So we are a welcome presence and the shop keepers offer good discounts on all products.

Good place for shopping

Me and Murugan went for a short walk during the 1^st round and learnt that Turkish people have their own superstition in the evil eye concept similar to the drishti concept in India. And that Jewellery shops here sell products made at Jaipur, India!

In the first round Shreyans Daklia scored a fine win over a Grand Master while National Under 17 Champion Saranya lost to an unrated player due to a terrible oversight allowing mate in one in the girls section. Otherwise the results were as expected with the top seeded Indians having their way in most of the games.

National age category champion Saranya who had a bad start with a first round loss

Day two:

We went for a short walk early in the morning in the beach which was exhilarating. I will be attending a FIDE trainer’s course from today and hope to learn about training young children.

Among the Indian kids the one who has grabbed the attention of all is Arpita Mukherjee from Kolkatta. She is 8 years old and has come alone for the trip without her parents! Being cheerful at all times she is everywhere at the same time. Her English (if you can call it that J ) is very cute and she has the habit of waking up everyone in our floor early in the morning and ask for Ramesh sir room! She finds it hard to remember the room numbers as they are 4 digits.

Normal Arpitha

AB(OVE) normal Arpitha J

Myself and Murugan attended the FIDE trainer course which began today. It was interesting but we hope the best is yet to come.  While the tournament has just started (2 rounds complete) some girls are having a tough time with results already and feeling the pressure. Last year National Under 15 champion Bharathi is having the worst start with 2 losses. Another talented young girl from Chennai Ashwini too has managed to score only half a point from 2 games. We went for a walk by the beach and discussed these issues and tried to motivate them to come out of this bad form and get more focus into the game. They looked cheerful after this talk and I hope something positive comes out of this.

In the FIDE trainer meet, some coaches from Turkey came to me and said Indian players have good positional base unlike the European children. I was surprised myself at the observation as I was having a different opinion. I feel Indian kids are good in tactics and need to work more on improving positional sense.

The FIDE trainer course is taking up most of the time. We are learning new things about chess training and I am eager to implement them at Chess Gurukul academy on my return to Chennai.

International Masters S P Sethuraman and Vidit Santosh Gujrathi along with Maharashtra boy Aditya Udeshi kept Indian hopes high with cent percent score after three rounds in the U-16 category in the World Youth Chess Championship 2009 at Antalya, Turkey. With Debashis Das (2.5), FMs Priyadharshan, Prasanna Rao (both 2.0) right behind the trio, the start appears to be significant for the Indian boys in Open Under-16 category.

Other strong contenders in various categories are : Bodda Prathyusha, Tejas Ravichandran, M Mahalakshmi, G Lasya, Vaibhav Suri, Girish Koushik 3/3, Rucha Pujari, P V Nandhidhaa, Adhiban Baskaran, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, Shardul Gagare, Ivana Maria Furtado 2.5/3, Bhakti kulkarni, Pon N Krithika, Shyam Nikhil, Padmini Rout, Sayantan Das 2/3.

LIVE GAMES :

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/content/view/10/11/lang,turkish/

Official Site :

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,turkish/

After two rounds, IMs Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, SP Sethuraman, Adhiban Baskaran, WIM Padmini Rout, FM Vaibhav Suri, Girish A Koushik, Aditya Udeshi, Tejas Ravichandran, Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, Bansi Prathima, Bodda Prathyusha, Pon Namasivayam Krithikha, Ivana Maria Furtado, Hetul Shah, Harshal Shahi, Karthikeyan Murali led the chart of Indian challengers with a 2/2 score  in their respective Age groups.

LIVE GAMES :

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/content/view/10/11/lang,turkish/

Official Site :

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,turkish/

This packed field includes three Grandmasters, and the Indian challenge led by Adhiban Baskaran will find support from FM Shyam Nikhil and Debashis Das. Bhakti Pradip Kulkarni (2263) and Pon Namasivayam Krithikha (2196) seeded sixth and twelfth respectively, will spearhead Indian hopes in the Girls Under 18 section.

Official Site :

http://wycc2009.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,turkish/

LIVE GAMES :

http://web5.tsf.org.tr/

Participants :

http://reports.chessdom.com/news-2009/world-youth-chess-championship-2009-participants