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Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
13 8 17 IM Heimann Andreas 2493 8 8 IM Hansen Eric 2472 26
13 16 23 IM Shyam Nikil P 2484 7 7 FM Hambleton Aman 2244 79
13 33 66 FM Thavandiran Shiyam 2301 6 6 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya 2374 48
13 45 96 Naoum Spyridon 2146 5½ 5 FM Kleinman Michael 2330 61
13 61 106 Caetano Hugo Zanotti Mendonca 2109 4 3½ Wu Kevin 1905 122
Rd. Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No.
13 8 17 IM Heimann Andreas 2493 8 8 IM Hansen Eric 2472 26
13 16 23 IM Shyam Nikil P 2484 7 7 FM Hambleton Aman 2244 79
13 33 66 FM Thavandiran Shiyam 2301 6 6 IM Anwesh Upadhyaya 2374 48
13 45 96 Naoum Spyridon 2146 5½ 5 FM Kleinman Michael 2330 61
13 61 106 Caetano Hugo Zanotti Mendonca 2109 4 3½ Wu Kevin 1905 122
Bob
Also noteworthy is Canadian girls Champion Nicka Kalaydina who currently has 5.5/12. Her last round pairing is below:
While the Canadian results are certainly commendable, to suggest a quasi GM level performance is a bit of a stretch. Of the 13 GMs playing in Athens, only one, Tal Baron, has a sub 2507 TPR.
The most amazing TPR by a non GM (but not likely for long!) continues to be that of the 13 year old Wei Yi who has a mind boggling 2656 TPR.
Hopefully, our own newly crowned IM, the soon to be 14 years old Richard Wang will participate next year. With a current FIDE rating of 2338, Richard would have been our 2nd highest rated player at this year's edition in Athens.
I'm currently in the airport in Montreal, a few hours away from home (Ottawa) at last!
I thought I'd share some of my personal thoughts and experiences from this year's World Junior.
First of all, the Canadian delegation was one of the largest it's ever been, with 5 participants in the Open section. Eric Hansen, as pointed out by Jonathan Berry on his website above, scored the best result ever by a Canadian, tied for 5th overall, and 10th on tiebreaks. Eric has a curse for playing Canadian players at World events, it's happened far too many times to count - and that was his only loss suffered the entire tournament. Not the strongest start, but Eric finished very strong scoring 5/6 points after the rest day. An amazing finish at this competitive tournament, and now the Olympiad is coming up soon on his schedule... best of luck!
Shiyam scored his 3rd and final IM norm (congrats!) and now just needs to get the rating to 2400 to make it official. Myself, I scored my first IM norm and probably played one of the best touranments of my life, gaining about 50 FIDE rating, and keeping a 12-game (not 13, Chris!) IM norm. I think the main thing that I noticed was that Canadians in general are really underrated in the FIDE rating system, and are dangerously strong. I think many European and foreign players learned this the hard way over the course of the tournament.
The hotel lacked a pool facility and a workout facility, and personally I found the food to be far too repetitive after a week. This sparked a few nighttime strolls in 40 degree heat to find traditional greek restaurants for a cheap, tasty 8 euro meal. All the Canadians went to see the Acropolis on the final day, which was unfortunately closed if we wanted to walk all the way to the top, but we did get a fair way up the mountain and got a great view of the city. The weather was great and the hotel rooms were perfectly normal - the tournament was well organized, and the playing hall was very nice. Pictures were uploaded to the official website as well, and I think every Canadian player has at least one picture there.
I am personally really pleased with my chess, and had a great time at this tournament, my first and unfortunately also my last World Junior. Thanks to everyone who helped me make this trip possible (Corinna!) and thanks to everyone back home who followed the tournament online. :)
Myself, I scored my first IM norm and probably played one of the best touranments of my life, gaining about 50 FIDE rating, and keeping a 12-game (not 13, Chris!) IM norm.
Sorry, the site must have had an incorrect performance rating for you originally after the 13th game when I checked. In any case, still a great result :)
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