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World Junior Championship 2009 Puerto Madrin,
Argentina, October 21st - November 4th
Top seeded in the boys
section is the French star GM Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave. His main competition are GM
Dmitry Andreikin, GM Sergey Zhigalko, GM Wesley
So, GM David Howell, GM Maxim Rodshtein, GM Li
Chao, and GM Eduardo Iturrizaga, all of them
seeking a position in the world's top 100
players list.
In the girls section top
seeded is WGM Mary Ann Gomez. Within close ELO
distance are WIM Xiaowen Zhang, WIM Deysi Cori,
WGM Iozefina Paulet, WIM Severiukhina, and WIM
Padmini Rout.
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Maxime
Vachier-Lagrave Wins World Junior title!
Sergei Zhigalko was second,
Michal Olszewski third and takes the bronze
medal. The top rated player Vachier-Lagrave from
France, claimed the trophy after a dramatic last
round in which he caught up with Sergei Zhigalko
from Belarus, and then surpassed him due to the
first tiebreak score - sum of opponents'
ratings.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ( Liverpool EU Open 2008)
Photo: SC
Zhigalko entered the final
13th round with 10 points, half a point ahead of
the French player, but then he drew with GM Ivan
Popov, while Vachier-Lagrave beat GM Dmitry
Andreikin. Both finished with 10˝ points, point
and a half clear of the rest of the field. GM
Michal Olszewski (Poland), Ivan Popov (Russia)
and IM Alex Lenderman (USA) shared the third
place, but the bronze medal went to Olszewski.
The two winners, Sergei
Zhigalko and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, with Michal
Olszewski in third.
Open Championship: top rankings after thirteen
rounds (final)
| Rk. |
Title |
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
Pts. |
TB1 |
TB2 |
Perf. |
| 1 |
GM |
Vachier-Lagrave Maxime |
FRA |
2718 |
10.5 |
30764 |
74.5 |
2799 |
| 2 |
GM |
Zhigalko Sergei |
BLR |
2646 |
10.5 |
30663 |
75.5 |
2787 |
| 3 |
GM |
Olszewski Michal |
POL |
2544 |
9.0 |
30456 |
64.5 |
2661 |
| 4 |
GM |
Popov Ivan |
RUS |
2582 |
9.0 |
30351 |
64.0 |
2653 |
| 5 |
IM |
Lenderman Alex |
USA |
2542 |
9.0 |
29713 |
61.0 |
2598 |
| 6 |
GM |
Andreikin Dmitry |
RUS |
2659 |
8.5 |
30700 |
63.5 |
2653 |
| 7 |
GM |
Yu Yangyi |
CHN |
2509 |
8.5 |
30445 |
62.5 |
2618 |
| 8 |
GM |
Grigoryan Avetik |
ARM |
2515 |
8.5 |
30221 |
62.5 |
2604 |
| 9 |
IM |
Margvelashvili Giorgi |
GEO |
2509 |
8.5 |
30209 |
63.0 |
2594 |
| 10 |
GM |
Iturrizaga Eduardo |
VEN |
2605 |
8.0 |
30804 |
66.0 |
2635 |
| 11 |
GM |
Rodshtein Maxim |
ISR |
2623 |
8.0 |
30567 |
63.5 |
2618 |
| 12 |
GM |
Li Chao B |
CHN |
2617 |
8.0 |
30442 |
62.5 |
2607 |
| 13 |
GM |
Howell David W L |
ENG |
2624 |
8.0 |
30122 |
60.0 |
2582 |
| 14 |
GM |
Bindrich Falko |
GER |
2516 |
8.0 |
29898 |
60.0 |
2558 |
| 15 |
IM |
Vocaturo Daniele |
ITA |
2510 |
8.0 |
29399 |
57.0 |
2517 |
| 16 |
GM |
Chirila Ioan-Cristian |
ROU |
2504 |
8.0 |
28876 |
54.0 |
2401 |
| 17 |
IM |
Can Emre |
TUR |
2455 |
8.0 |
27740 |
49.0 |
2375 |
| 18 |
IM |
Robson Ray |
USA |
2527 |
7.5 |
30163 |
59.0 |
2552 |
| 19 |
GM |
Jumabayev Rinat |
KAZ |
2548 |
7.5 |
29842 |
57.5 |
2530 |
| 20 |
IM |
Lalith Babu M R |
IND |
2477 |
7.5 |
29791 |
55.0 |
2508 |
| 21 |
IM |
Ibarra Chami Luis Fernando |
MEX |
2393 |
7.5 |
29614 |
53.0 |
2478 |
| 22 |
IM |
Karthikeyan P |
IND |
2449 |
7.5 |
28528 |
51.0 |
2405 |
| 23 |
IM |
Potapov Pavel |
RUS |
2429 |
7.5 |
27965 |
50.5 |
2362 |
| 24 |
IM |
Ashwin Jayaram |
IND |
2451 |
7.5 |
27848 |
49.5 |
2354 |
| 25 |
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Gallego Alcaraz Andres Felipe |
COL |
2404 |
7.5 |
27581 |
48.0 |
2328 |
Full results cross table can be seen here
In the girls' section the final round was, if
possible, even more dramatic. To the delight of
the Turkish nation their girl, Betül Cemre
Yildiz was in the sole lead, ahead of two tough
rivals:
| Rk. |
Title |
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
Pts. |
| 1 |
WIM |
Yildiz Betul Cemre |
TUR |
2224 |
9.0 |
| 2 |
WGM |
Soumya Swaminathan |
IND |
2297 |
8.5 |
| 3 |
WIM |
Cori Tello Deysi |
PER |
2361 |
8.5 |
Three-way tie for first: Deysi
Cori Tello, Swaminathan Soumya and Betul Cemre
Yildiz
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A decisive penultimate round game:
WIM Deysi Cori Tello of Peru defeats
Indian WGM Swaminathan Soumya of
India opens the way for a three-way
fight for first.
How
Betül missed a $33,000 prize
Betül Cemre Yildiz is a Women
International Master and has won the
Turkish Women's Championship (for
adults) a total of six times
already. She was invited to the FIDE
Women's Grand Prix in Nanjing last
month, where she fared disastrously.
Top Turkish female in chess, Betül
Cemre Yildiz, in Argentina.
The Junior World Championship in
Argentina was a completely different
matter. Betül went into the final
round looking poised to take Gold.
But in the end she only tied for
first and came in third on tiebreak
points. Had she won clear first she
would have got a WGM title directly
and been eligible for a special
jackpot prize of the Turkish Chess
Federation.
As
Chessbase reported
in February this year, the basic prize was 10,000 Turkish Lira for any Turkish
player becoming a grandmaster or woman grandmaster (GM or WGM). An additional
bonus of 20,000 TL would be paid to the first player to get one of these titles,
and a further bonus of 20,000 TL for the first player to do so under the age of
20. According to our calculations this adds up to:
1. WGM title –
10,000 TL
2. First 2. WGM –
20,000 TL
3. First WGM under
20 – 20,000 TL
Total: 50,000 TL = 22,624 Euro or US $33,000
Pity, Betül,
who is a charming, intelligent and widely educated young lady, missed this by a
couple of tiebreak points – and by a tiny little qualification in the title
rules. We checked with FIDE: it appears she and Deysi Cori Tello, with their
Silver and Bronze medals, are only eligible for the WIM title, which they both
already have. The Gold medal winner, Swaminathan Soumya, on the other hand does
in fact qualify for a WGM title
Girls' Championship: top rankings
after thirteen rounds (final)
| Rk. |
Title |
Name |
FED |
Rtg |
Pts. |
TB1 |
TB2 |
Perf. |
| 1 |
WGM |
Soumya
Swaminathan |
IND |
2297 |
9.5 |
27314 |
67.0 |
2433 |
| 2 |
WIM |
Cori
Tello Deysi |
PER |
2361 |
9.5 |
27250 |
65.0 |
2437 |
| 3 |
WIM |
Yildiz
Betul Cemre |
TUR |
2224 |
9.5 |
27052 |
67.0 |
2406 |
| 4 |
WIM |
Zhang
Xiaowen |
CHN |
2391 |
9.0 |
27216 |
65.5 |
2400 |
| 5 |
WIM |
Mikadze
Miranda |
GEO |
2317 |
8.5 |
27071 |
59.0 |
2332 |
| 6 |
WIM |
Severiukhina Zoja |
RUS |
2339 |
8.0 |
27135 |
64.0 |
2331 |
| 7 |
WGM |
Paulet
Iozefina |
ROU |
2342 |
8.0 |
26978 |
62.5 |
2310 |
| 8 |
WIM |
Padmini
Rout |
IND |
2331 |
8.0 |
26896 |
57.5 |
2308 |
| 9 |
WFM |
Tjolsen
Katrine |
NOR |
2178 |
8.0 |
26619 |
60.0 |
2279 |
| 10 |
WIM |
Kiran
Manisha Mohanty |
IND |
2153 |
8.0 |
26563 |
57.0 |
2258 |
| 11 |
WIM |
Ivakhinova Inna |
RUS |
2249 |
7.5 |
27080 |
55.0 |
2292 |
| 12 |
WIM |
Kalinina Olga |
UKR |
2229 |
7.5 |
26372 |
57.0 |
2178 |
| 13 |
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Fuchs
Judith |
GER |
2207 |
7.5 |
26247 |
52.5 |
2224 |
| 14 |
WIM |
Umudova
Nargiz |
AZE |
2254 |
7.5 |
26191 |
52.0 |
2223 |
| 15 |
WIM |
Ozturk
Kubra |
TUR |
2176 |
7.5 |
26182 |
51.5 |
2215 |
Full results cross table can be
viewed here
Pictures by Ĺse Řstebř
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