Padmini Rout of Orissa won the bronze medal in the World Junior
Girls chess championship that concluded at Poland on August 16.
Anna Muzychuk of Slovenia won the event with 11/13 after scoring
a final round victory. Russia's Olga Girya won the silver medal
with a final round draw to end on 10.5 points.
Padmini who drew higher rated WGM Cori Tello of Peru finished
clear third with 10 points. Bhakti Kulkarni of Goa scored three
points from the last four rounds to finish fifth with nine
points. Bodda Pratyusha finished above her rating expectancy
with 6.5 points and 43rd place.
Dmitry Andreikin and Sanan Sjugirov of Russia tied for the first
place and won the gold and silver medal in the World Junior.
Dariusz Swiercz of Poland took the bronze medal on 9 points.
Indian placings: 11 GM Parimarjan Negi 8.5; 32 IM S.P.
Sethuraman 7.5; 35 IM Swapnil Dhopade 7.5; 45 IM Debashis Das 7;
48 Anwesh Upadhyaya 7; 54 Sagar Shah 6.5; 59 IM M.R. Lalith Babu
6.5; 67 Arun Karthik 6.5; 68 IM Ashwin Jayaram 6.5...120
players.
Among the Indian boys, Debashis Das, Anwesh Upadhyaya, Sagar
Shah, Arun Karthik played better than expected. The next World
Junior, the prestigious 50th edition, will be held at Chennai in
2011.
July 07 2010 - This is to inform all chess
players / organisers / officials that any chess event organized
under the banner of "Chess Association of India" is not
recognized by the All India Chess Federation... more news
Kind Attention : Tournament Organizers / State
Associations
May 06 2010 - Please be informed that the FIDE has announced that, here after
all the rating tournaments should be registered 30 days in
advance. We therefore request all the organizers / State chess
associations to send their Bidform along with prescribed fee to
organize any FIDE rating events, 45 days in advance to All India
Chess Federation for onward submission to FIDE and enable us to
allot the FIDE / AICF event code for the event. Download the Bidform
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