World Youth Chess Championships 2003 23 October - 3 November, Halkidiki,
Greece.

Official site:- www.sportmeeting.gr
Game replay engine. .pgn downloads and results-to-date from www.ruschess.com

The young guys are being led by Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov from Azerbyan who is
1.5 points clear of the field and completely ratifying his 100+ ELO
advantage over anyone his same age. Pixton from USA has played some good
games and was unfortunate not to win against Adam Popovics (2431) in a wild
game of some theoretical interest if you play 2.Bg5.

Boys(U18):
1 Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov AZE 2595 8.0
2 Andrey Zhigalko BLR 2478 6.5
3 Aaron Pixton USA 2445 6.0
4 Tomi Nyback FIN 2497 6.0
5 Levon Babujian ARM 2373 5.5
6 Pablo Lafuente ARG 2424 5.5
7 Tadej Sakelsek SLO 2339 5.5
8 Matthieu Cornette FRA 2399 5.5
9 Alexandr Kharitonov RUS 2439 5.5
10 Shay Porat ISR 2360 5.5
11 Grzegorz Gajewski POL 2462 5.5
12 Joshua E Friedel USA 2328 5.5
13 Igor Kurnosov RUS 2527 5.5
14 Adam Popovics HUN 2431 5.5

And the ladies are still led by Dzagnidze who also has 100 ELOs over her
rivals; Huang from China has the best current 'acceleration' and does better
counter-punching with black than with white. A huge field - not much time to
find whole-points for the near-leaders.

Girls(U18):
1 Nana Dzagnidze GEO 2452 7.0
2 Qian Huang CHN 2352 6.0
3 Natalia Zdebskaja UKR 2331 6.0
4 Elizaveta Bronnikova RUS 2271 6.0
5 Shadi Paridar IRI 2253 5.5
6 Natalija Pogonina RUS 2342 5.5
7 Tamara Chistiakova RUS 2314 5.5
8 Tamara Tsereteli GEO 2286 5.5
9 Evgenia Meshcheriakova RUS 2231 5.5
10 Vera Papadopoulou GRE 2245 5.5

Phil Innes

Who is paying the expenses for the two US lads?

RSHaas

Who is paying the expenses for the two US lads?

RSHaas

A total of 13 Americans went.

Final scores for all of them:

FM Aaron Pixton (BU18) 8/11, 4th place
FM Teddy Coleman (BU14) 7/11, 19th place
FM Josh Friedel (BU18) 7/11, 10th place
WFM Katherine Pelletier (GU14) 7.5/11, 10th place
WFM Alisa Melekhina (GU12) 6.5/11, 18th place
FM Fabiano Caruana (BU12) 6.5/11, 27th place
Robert Hess (BU12) 6.5/11, 28th place
Alex Lenderman (BU14) 7/11, 18th place
Parker Zhao (BU10) 7/11, 21st place
Evan Ju (BU12) 6/11, 42nd place
Medina Parilla (GU12) 6/11, 27th place
FM Lev Milman (BU16) 7/11, 19th place
Jordana Cathryn Williams (GU10) 5/11, 53rd place

Two Americans made IM norms: Joshua Friedel and Aaron Pixton.

No medals, though. Pixton was =3rd-4th, but lost out on tiebreaks to GM Tomi
Nyback of Finland.

John Fernandez

Who paid the expenses for the 13 US players?

RSHaas

(HAASpittle) wrote in message ...
Who paid the expenses for the 13 US players?

RSHaas
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Don't worry, Richard, it wasn't you.

KidDon