2012 World Junior Chess Championship

The 2012 World Junior Chess Championship began in the Titania Hotel in Athens, Greece. Right from the beginning the top FIDE junior event saw numerous exciting decisive games.

The Chinese champion and favorite of the WJCC GM Ding Liren (2695) started with a convincing victory, just as his compatriot and second seeded GM Yu Yangyi (2635).

Multiple of the top seeded players followed suit and completed a full point in day 1 – GM Yaroslav Zherebukh (2612), GM Richard Rapport (2605), GM Alexander Shimanov (2596), GM Alexander Ipatov (2577), GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (2567), GM Nils Grandelius (2562), GM Salem A R Saleh (2546), IM Sahaj Grover (2516), etc.

The only surprising results in the open/boys section top 15 boards were of GM Robin Van Kempen (2565) who made a draw with FM Dmytro Kigel (2276) and the one of IM Mustafa Yilmaz (2543) who drew with Anton Podolski (2246).

All results WJCC open/boys / Standings /Replay games with computer analysis

The two players over 2400 ELO in the Girls section of the World Junior Chess Championships 2012 – IM Anastasia Bodnaruk (2414) and WGM Deysi Cori (2413) – started with victories in the first round of the event.

Almost all their main competitors for the title, namely the players over 2300 ELO, won their games. WGM Alina Kashlinskaya (2391), WIM Irina Bulmaga (2380), WIM Meri Arabidze (2379), WGM Guo Qi (2358), Wang Jue (2355), WGM Nastassia Ziaziulkina (2342), WGM Jovana Vojinovic (2337), and WIM Lisa Schut (2305) walk away with a full point after day 1.

The girls section certainly contained more surprises than the open/boys one. The youngest player to have completed all WGM norms in the world at the moment Zhansaya Abdumalik (2193) and the previous youngest WGM in the world Alexandra Goryachkina (2361) had a rough start. Abdumalik lost her game versus the untitled Serbian player Bogdana Nonkovic (1950), while Goryachkina drew with Maria Nevioselaya (2057). The U20 girls Panamerican champion WIM Paula Andrea Rodriguez Rueda (2196) was also stunned by the local Alexandra Terzidaki (1958).

All results of the WJCC Girls / Standings girls /Replay games with computer analysis

GM Oliver Barbosa clinched title in Odisha International chess meet

The 4th Odisha International GM Open Chess Tournament took place from 29th May to 5th June at the Banquet Hall, Campus 6, KIIT University Campus, Bhubaneswar – 24, Odisha, India.

The tournament is organized by the All Orissa Chess Association, KIIT University Bhubaneswar and under the guidance of All India Chess Federation. 249 players from 11 countries competed in the 10-rounds Swiss event.

GM Oliver Barbosa from Philippines took a clear first place with 8.5/10 points and the prize of Rs. 2,00,000/-. Earlier this year Barbosa won another strong tournament in India – Parsvnath International Open.

GM Oliver Barbosa

Most of the top rated participants migrate to Mumbai to continue the tour in the 5th Mayor’s Cup International Chess Tournament.

Last year winner in Odisha (Orissa) was GM Aleksej Aleksandrov.

Final standings:

1 GM Barbosa Oliver PHI 2550 – 8.5
2 GM Chadaev Nikolai RUS 2563 – 8
3 IM Grover Sahaj IND 2506 – 8
4 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2449 – 8
5 GM Podolchenko Evgeniy BLR 2464 – 8
6 IM Vaibhav Suri IND 2485 – 8
7 IM Vishnu Prasanna V IND 2431 – 7.5
8 GM Deviatkin Andrei RUS 2577 – 7.5
9 IM Debashis Das IND 2425 – 7.5
10 GM Gomez John Paul PHI 2507 – 7.5
11 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2606 – 7.5
12 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J IND 2461 – 7.5
13 IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R IND 2355 – 7.5
14 GM Paragua Mark PHI 2521 – 7
15 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2554 – 7
16 Gusain Himal IND 2271 – 7
17 IM Venkatesh M R IND 2517 – 7
18 FM Ghosh Diptayan IND 2418 – 7
19 FM Rajesh V A V IND 2364 – 7
20 GM Laxman R R IND 2417 – 7
21 IM Priyadharshan K IND 2393 – 7
22 IM Gara Anita HUN 2329 – 7
23 WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman IND 2300 – 7
24 Arun Karthik R IND 2277 – 7
25 GM Ziatdinov Raset UZB 2370 – 6.5
26 Karthikeyan Murali IND 2329 – 6.5
27 Pradeep Kumar R A IND 2269 – 6.5
28 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2538 – 6.5
29 CM Prince Bajaj IND 2255 – 6.5
30 IM Shivananda B S IND 2363 – 6.5
31 IM Sangma Rahul IND 2327 – 6.5
32 IM Karthikeyan P IND 2421 – 6.5
33 FM Das Sayantan IND 2251 – 6.5
34 Kathmale Sameer IND 2241 – 6.5
35 Phadke Sohan IND 2266 – 6.5
36 Bitan Banerjee IND 2342 – 6.5
37 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 2513 – 6.5
38 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2345 – 6.5
39 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya IND 2413 – 6.5
40 Praveen Prasad P IND 2248 – 6.5
41 Sahoo Utkal Ranjan IND 2218 – 6.5
42 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2361 – 6.5
43 Roy Prantik IND 2210 – 6.5
44 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2424 – 6.5
45 Pranav Vijay IND 2174 – 6.5
46 FM Chatterjee Debaraj BAN 2316 – 6.5
47 Sidhant Mohapatra IND 2209 – 6.5
48 Tiwari Arjun IND 2244 – 6.5
49 Padhya Saumil IND 2236 – 6.5
50 Michelle Catherina P IND 2073 – 6.5