Final Results from the World Youth

[Eric Hansen]

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Here are the final results. Ater the country you have their score out of 11 followed by how they finished in their section. Eric Hansen tied for 2nd place!, Kelly Wang tied for 3rd place! and Jonah Lee tied for 6th place! The final rank given below is how they finished after the tie-break.

I believe this was the Best overall performance for Canada at this event ever!

39 Graif William 0 CAN 5,5 44 Open 10
8 Qin Joey 2137 CAN 5,0 60 Open 12
79 Li Chang He 0 CAN 6,0 31 Open 12
90 Sohal Tanraj 0 CAN 6,5 27 Open 12
41 Calugar Arthur 2044 CAN 5,5 47 Open 14
12 Hansen Eric 2362 CAN 8,0 5 Open 16
13 FM Thavandiran Shiyam 2338 CAN 5,0 46 Open 16
35 Mai Lloyd 2150 CAN 6,0 24 Open 16
48 Martchenko Alexander 2039 CAN 5,5 43 Open 16
47 Ye Ling Feng 2188 CAN 5,0 48 Open 18
75 Xu Haizhou 0 CAN 4,5 66 Open 18
5 Bilodeau-Savaria Cendrina 0 CAN 5,5 32 Girls 08
30 Peng Janet 0 CAN 3,0 51 Girls 08
51 Wang Kelly 0 CAN 8,0 4 Girls 08
54 Peng Jackie 0 CAN 6,0 24 Girls 10
49 Kalaydina Regina Veronicka 0 CAN 6,5 23 Girls 12
62 Powell Ashley 0 CAN 4,0 65 Girls 12
37 Orlova Yelizaveta 1863 CAN 7,0 14 Girls 14
69 Powell Samantha 0 CAN 4,0 69 Girls 14
58 Kagramanov Dalia 0 CAN 5,5 35 Girls 16
62 Yang Marguerite 0 CAN 4,0 54 Girls 16
43 Du Jasmine 0 CAN 5,0 34 Girls 18
13 Bellissimo Joseph F. 0 CAN 4,5 58 Open 08
35 Lee Jonah 0 CAN 7,5 7 Open 08

Thanks everyone. I would like to note one thing that I think is a major concern however. Canada sent 24 players, which was the 9th highest total. But we had 0 coaches and in couldn't even find a head of delegation for a while. I know that in the past that Canada had 1 coach,it's not enough but it's better than nothing. Similar countries in delegation size and chess strength sent at least 1 coach, if not more. The USCF sent 3 GM's and a few other coaches to accompany their 28 players. And the United States Chess Federation isn't rich by any standards, it is losing huge amounts of money every year but still does it's part for the youth team. I saw Australia with a couple coaches and some other weaker chess nations(as well as quite poor countries) with some as well. If Canada wants to compete internationally we need the resources for the players. I think that many of the players would have benefited had they had the same assistance as there opponents got. Canada has one of the highest standards of living in the world,so I almost found it embarassing that we couldn't get any coaches. Also needing a parent to volunteer to act as head of delegation was also a shock. Dr. Sohal did a great job, but we should be able to field a proper delegation without scrambling to find someone to volunteer. I noticed the CFC had no money to pay for the olympiad team, but it set up a fund for people to donate to send the players to Germany.Why not do something similar for the kids? If they want to support youth chess, they should be doing the same. Most of the players didn't get funding and had to pay a large amount for themselves and a parent to go. Bringing a personal coach is too expensive, so the only chance is for team coaches. The CFC should be organizing ways to raise money to get the proper things for Canada to be able to perform it's best at international tournaments. I think Canada has been missing some big opportunities to improve its youth chess, and I hope that in future years the problems will be rectified.

Well, that's the end of my rant. I still had the best time of my life and hope to go back next year. I'd like to thank everyone for making it a memorable trip!

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

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I don't understand the concept of a team medal in an individual competition

Don't take so seriously these championships, than a team champ. will fit perfectly as a part of festival.

[Gary Ruben]

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I didn't see anybody suggest that a Canadian won an individual medal this year, Gary. The official site confirms that. Tiebreaks were used.

Thank you, Jonathan.

You mentioned in this thread that Canada's silver medal was a team medal. To tell the truth, I don't understand the concept of a team medal in an individual competition and that's what made me wonder.

I do understand why it is desirable to pair countrymen or relatives with each other in the early rounds.

[Jonathan Berry]

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I didn't see anybody suggest that a Canadian won an individual medal this year, Gary. The official site confirms that. Tiebreaks were used.

[Gary Ruben]

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Did any Canadian receive a medal for an individual result this year? Gold, Silver or Bronze?

Is it a case that if 5 people tie for first place in an individual category they give 5 gold medals?

Reading the different posts made me wonder. I had assumed tie break was used for the medals.

[Jonathan Berry]

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Eric Hansen's 8 points is the best score by a Canadian at the World Under-16, formerly known as the World Cadet Championship, first held in 1974.

http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/cad.htm

It's a good bet that Kelly's and Jonah's scores are also the best ever by Canadians in the much more recent U-8 age categories.

[Duncan Smith]

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On paper this year's team had the best result. I still think factoring in all things ( the addition of U8 categories, reduced field size, less top Europeans, only 14? players in 2001 ) that 2001 had a very similar feel to it.

[Jonathan Berry]

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U16, presumably.

Presumably, but ... guessing that it was the sum of the two best scores, India is clearly first. Then Canada ties for second with Russia, and wins on tiebreak. If so, then Russia is third, but the medal standings don't show Russia winning any bronze medals.

Ah, OK. According to
http://wycc2008.vietnamchess.com/ind...d=38&Itemid=92

it is the top three, which in U-16 would be Eric (8), Lloyd Mai (6), and Alexander Martchenko (5.5). Aaaaaaah, here we go, the team rankings for each section are below the individual rankings on the web pages. Canada won silver behind India and ahead of Vietnam in the Open Under-16.
Congratulations, Eric, Lloyd and Alexander!

[Ben Daswani]

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According to that link, Canada's silver medal was a team medal, not an individual medal.
I-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g.

U16, presumably.

[Jonathan Berry]

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Canadian team ranking #11. http://wycc2008.vietnamchess.com/index.php
One silver.

According to that link, Canada's silver medal was a team medal, not an individual medal.
I-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g.

[Jonathan Berry]

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According to David Cohen's website, Mark Bluvshtein represented Canada at the World Boys Under-18 Championship 2005, and finished in 3rd place.

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2557

gives Mark finishing 3rd-5th, but 4th on tiebreak. So if the same rules for awarding medals were applied, either Eric won a silver, Kelly a bronze, Mark a bronze--or none of them won medals.

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Yeah :)
Congratulation all.
Canadian team ranking #11. http://wycc2008.vietnamchess.com/index.php
One silver.
More Canadian players got top 10 in the world this year. Well done.
I enjoy your games at Round 11, even though it is too high level to me :) :).

[Jonathan Berry]

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For 2005, it seems I didn't write a column about the WYCC. Maybe I was waiting for some resolution of the issues of the organizational kerfuffle, but we're all still waiting for that, eh?

Anyway, here is the note I had ready for insertion:

*    The top-scoring boys were: Mark Bluvshtein 8 (u-18); Nikita
Krayushkin 7.5, Nikita Gusev 7 (both u-10), Noam Davies 6.5 (u-14),
Lloyd Mai 6 (u-12), David Wang 6 (u-16), Thomas Kaminski 6, Aquino
Inigo 5.5 (both u-10), Shibo Zhang 5.5 (u-12), Viktor Kaminski 5.5
(u-14).

[Girls] Hazel Smith 7 (u-14), Myriam Roy 6.5, Alexandra Botez 6 (both
u-10), Yelizabeta Orlova, Stephanie Smith 5.5 (both u-12).

[John Coleman]

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According to David Cohen's website, Mark Bluvshtein represented Canada at the World Boys Under-18 Championship 2005, and finished in 3rd place.

[Jonathan Berry]

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At least this time the Europeans had to deal with ugly jet lag, too. By "ugly", I mean west-to-east, which is the more difficult version.

Here is what I wrote about 2001 in the Globe:

* Canada had two excellent results in the World Youth Championships
at Oropesa del Mar, Spain.

*    Mark Bluvshtein tied for 8th place (out of 106 competitors) in
the Boys under-14 with 7.5 points in 11 rounds. Viktor Erdos of
Hungary won the section with 9 points.

*    Hazel Smith tied for 9th place (out of 70) in the Girls under-10
with 7 points. In the final round she lost to the champion, Tan
Zhongyi of China, who had 10 points.

*    The only other Canadian to score better than 50% was Pascal
Charbonneau, with 6 points in the Boys under-18.