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Summary of Round One - The World Junior Chess Championship 2016 got off to a rollicking start at the KIIT University on Monday. 137 players from 12 different countries are participating in this prestigious tournament spanning 13 rounds.
Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev and American GM Jeffrey Xiong are the top two seeds of this mega junior event. Artemiev faced no difficulties in dispatching his French opponent FM Dylan Viennot, nor did Xiong, who defeated India’s CM Arjun Erigaisi.
The third seed GM Kirill Aleksenko of Russia won with relative ease as well, against Swiss FM Patrik Grandadam. Fourth seed Iran’s Parham Maghsoodloo was slightly worse, but managed to come back into the game and was winning, but a late blunder meant that his opponent Swedish FM Tom Rydstrom enforced a stalemate, thus earning an upset draw.
Last time I've checked you were the CFC president and Frank Lee the Youth Coordinator. I've spent hours with him and William Cheung (Lucas' father) at the 2012 WYCC in Maribor and I know he's a very nice guy. I don't understand why is he still the CFC Youth Coordinator if you, Bob Gillanders and other chess parents are doing his job.
3. There are many rules in the handbook that are no longer relevant.
I hope that after NAYCC and AGM you'll have some time to remove these "no longer relevant" rules from the handbook. You always use this as an excuse when somebody refers to the CFC handbook.
Also please make some time and rewrite the paragraph 712. Participation in the World Events. I saw a CT post where a parent was asking why some kids are the official players at NAYCC.
There is rarely more than one player interested in a particular tournament. We get multiple event announcements every month. Some are deemed interesting enough to publicize. Most pass without a ripple in the pond.
I consider the World Junior a "interesting" tournament maybe more important than WYCC. I think a good idea is to have a link named Upcoming Junior Tournaments and list all FIDE and CFC events (World Junior, Pan-American Youth, NAYCC, WYCC, U16 Olympiad, World Schools, Pan-American Schools, Canadian Junior, CYCC etc.) on one page. This will give the parents enough time to think about them and schedule the tournaments for their kids.
Summary of Round Two - Continuing the precedent set in the very first round, there was a handful of upsets in the second round of the World Junior Chess Championship being held at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. The top two seeds — Vladislav Artemiev and Jeffrey Xiong — had a positive outing, but there was bloodshed in the other boards. Unheralded Chinese FM Xu Yi caused a flutter by defeating the fifth seed German GM Dennis Wagner. On the very next table, untitled Chinese Yuan Qingyu held sixth seed Rasmus Svane of Germany to a draw.
Among the Indians, world’s youngest International Master 11-year-old Praggnanandhaa R. of Tamil Nadu lost to the top seed Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev. Another bright hope 12-year-old FM Nihal Sarin of Kerala held the ninth-seeded Chinese Yinglun Xu to a draw.
Summary of Round Three - The World Junior Chess Championship 2016 saw witnessed glimpses of a clear leader when Indian GM S. L. Narayanan defeated Bozidar Ivekovic of Croatia with the black pieces. At the top board, Russian GM Vlaidslav Artemiev continued his positive run by defeating Vietnamese IM Tran Tuan Minh. Thus, both the players now lead the tournament with 3.0/3. The two co-leaders will face each other in the fourth round in what could be the clash that decides the clear leader for the first time in the tournament.
Untitled Georgian Irakli Beradze held his more fancied opponent — American second seed GM Jeffrey Xiong, to a draw. Indian IM Visakh NR proved too solid for the third seed Russian GM Kirill Alekseenko as well, successfully negotiating a draw in an exciting game. FM Xu Yi of China continued his good form by signing the peace treaty with Indian GM Aravindh Chithambaram.
Masoud Mosadeghpour's 'Mora Gambit' certainly shouldn't have come as a surprise to the much higher rated Alekseenko. Masoud has only 28 games at chess.com and 3 of them are Moras. He has 2 wins and a draw (to Brazil's top GM, Alexandr Fier) in those 3 games. :)
Summary of Round Four - In a game of swinging fortunes, the top seed GM Vladislav Artemiev of Russia and India’s star performer GM S. L. Narayanan split the point in a 78-move long struggle. This allowed a host of pursuers to join the two as the second seed GM Jeffrey Xiong was able to outwit Quingyu Yuan of China. The biggest surprise, though, was the defeat of the third seed GM Kirill Alekseenko of Russia by twentieth-seeded Iran’s IM Masoud Mosadeghpour. Masoud managed to pull this off by playing the highly speculative Smith-Morra Gambit against Alekseenko’s Sicilian, with the former’s aggressive intent earning him the upset. Five players now lead the table with 3.5/4.
India’s Harsha Bharathakoti’s sterling run came to an end with the defeat by the hands of IM Rasmus Svane of Germany. FM Xu Yi, who was having a splendid run could not keep pace and went down against GM Murali Karthikeyan of India. 67th seed FM Rakesh Kumar Jena of Odisha continued his giant-killing spree, this time defeating Filipino IM Paulo Bersamina, to move to 3.0/4.
The good news is that Davaa has a draw and perhaps now the tournament will be on the upswing for him. But looking at the position (below) after 49.Kf3, is it a draw?
49…Rb8 50.Rh1 Rxb7 51.Rxh2 Rxd7 52.Rxh7 Kf6 or
49…Rb8 50.d8=Q+ Rxd8 51.Rb1 Rb8 52.Kg2 Kd7
look winning for Black. Why did Black agree to a draw?
Summary of Round Five - The current Indian National Champion, GM Murali Karthikeyan of Tamil Nadu, snatched pole position at the end of five rounds of play here at the World Junior Chess Championship 2016 in the KIIT University, Bhubaneswar.
Six players went into the fifth day of play tied at 3.5/4. While both the top two board games by the first and the second seeds ended in a draw, Karthikeyan beat German IM Rasmus Svane with the white pieces to become the tournament’s first sole leader with 4.5/5.
On the top board, Iran’s Masoud Moadeghpour held the top seed GM Vladislav Artemiev to a draw in a long game, GM S.L. Narayanan easily held USA’s GM Jeffrey Xiong at the second table.
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