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Two Canadian youths at 7 points after 9 rounds.
WCM Harmony Zhu and Nameer Isaac are carrying the torch for Canada. Two bright hopes for a medal.
Harmony is just 1/2 point from the leaders in her group and with still 2 rounds to go, anything can happen. Her round 8 victory is a testament to her strong determination to win, buckling down a rook for a queen exchange and avoiding a draw to finally win.
Nameer Issani is a bit of a surprise to me, but nevertheless a pleasant surprise. His round 8 miraculous recovery from the opening where he blundered a full bishop, is an indication that Nameer does not give up easily - a very important characteristic of players who are destined to go to the top.
Harmony and Nameer will be exciting opponents to play against at the Scarborough Chess Club when they return for the SCC Winter swiss - known as the Jack Frost tournament beginning Jan 2, 2014.
They are the "New Kids on the Block".
I reinforce the belief of Jack Maguire that these 2 7 pointers are bright hopes for a medal.
Last edited by Erwin Casareno; Monday, 30th December, 2013, 04:58 PM.
Reason: wrong spelling
Harmony just crushed the #1 seed, Ayan Allahverdiyeva, from Azerbaijan, and will clearly be playing for a medal tomorrow in the final round. Unfortunately, she'll be wielding the Black pieces (both her losses, the only two games she didn't outright win, in R4 & R6, came with Black) and she's much stronger with White at this stage of her young chess career.
If ChessBomb is to be believed, both the top 2 boards in the U8 Girls drew their games. Thus, Harmony is in a 6-way tie for 1st heading into the final round tomorrow.
If there's a tie for first, I suggest a piano recital as a tie-break! :)
Given Harmony is already a two time champion of international piano competitions at Carnegie Hall, Vlad, that would hardly be fair to the other girls (:
But I'll certainly second your motion in a semiquaver (:
If there's a tie for first, I suggest a piano recital as a tie-break! :)
I believe I can trump your suggestion, Vlad. How about a change to the football scoring (i.e. 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw) deployed at some chess tournaments that favours wins! Then Harmony is clear 1st and doesn't have to worry about tie-breaks (:
The 3 girls who are seemingly due White tomorrow, the #3 and #7 seeds from India, and Mungunzul Bat-Erdene from Mongolia, have all played (and all drew!) Qian Wan from China (who's likely still 1st on current tie-breaks) which presumably means that Qian must play either our Harmony or Galina Mironenko from Russia. I'm now rather hoping that Harmony gets to play White against Qian and has her destiny squarely in her own hands.
Nameer did indeed win his R10 game and is in a 4-way tie for 2nd with his 8/10. The 4 have no chance of a gold, however, since the sole leader, Praggnanandhaa Ramesh Babu from India, has run the table with a perfect 10/10!
Last edited by Jack Maguire; Friday, 27th December, 2013, 03:42 PM.
Both Harmony and Nameer will have Black tomorrow but that hasn't been a handicap in the least to Nameer here at the WYCC. He's currently 4.5/5 with Black and 3.5/5 with White so perhaps Nameer has his colour of choice (:
Harmony, on the other hand, has been decidedly one dimensional, a perfect 6/6 with White but only 2/4 with Black (and the 2nd win an outright swindle). We can only hope that her coaches are working with her assiduoualy at the moment on the Alapin Variation of the Sicilian Defence since Qian Wan, her opponent tomorrow, has started each of her White Sicilians with 1.e4 c5 (Harmony's wont reply to e4 players) 2.c3.
Great news! IF Harmony can win with Black tomorrow - a colossal IF given her strong preference for White - then she wins the Gold medal outright. The 1st tie-break is head-to-head competition and both of Harmony's losses were to girls not playing for Gold tomorrow. The 2nd tie-break is number of wins and Harmony has a lock on that tie-break should she manage a 9th win tomorrow. Go Harmony!!
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