World U-20 title for Andreikin & Muzychuk
Top seed Dmitry Andreikin won the World Junior Championship (under 20) in Chotowa, Poland. The Russian finished shared first with compatriot Sanan Sjugirov but had a better tiebreak. Local hero Dariusz Swiercz won bronze. In the girls section favourite Anna Muzychuk won gold with 11/13.
Dmitry Andreikin (RUS) and Anna Muzychuk (SLO) take gold at the World U-20 in Chotowa, Poland | Photo © official website
The 49th World Junior Championships took place August 3-16 in Chotowa, Poland. Among the previous winners are Borislav Ivkov (who won the first edition in 1951), Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won it in both 2003 and 2005; last year Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took gold in Argentina.
Since 1982 there is a separate tournament for girls U-20. The first winner was Agnieszka Brustman of Poland. Former World Champion Zhu Chen from China (now Qatar, after being married with Mohammed Al-Modiahki) also won the Girls U-20 Championship.
This year top seed Dmitry Andreikin (2650) from Russia took the gold medal in the main section, with a score of 10/13. He edged out Sanan Sjugirov (2610) on tiebreak having been at the top of the leaderboard for most of the tournament. With a bronze medal local hero Dariusz Swiercz (2492) didn't disappoint the organizers - after five rounds was he even on sole first place for one day.
With an advantage of more than a hundred points over the rest of the field, IM Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia) was the clear favourite. In the end she scored 11/13 and won by a half-point margin. WGM Olga Girya from Russia won silver and WGM Rout Padmini from India bronze.
World Junior Championship Girls U-20 2010 | Final Standings (top 20)
The games of the winners
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Links
- Official website
- Games in PGN: World Juniors | Girls via TWIC
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Alexander
1 year 5 months ago
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Bravo, Ana!
unknown
1 year 5 months ago
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Congratulations!
arna
1 year 5 months ago
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They both deserve their title, they were leading almost all the event and were top seeds!
Thomas
1 year 5 months ago
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@arna: Fair enough, but Sjugirov started with only 2.5/4 and altogether had weaker opponents than Andreikin - so he still deserves second place. In the given event, the tiebreak favoring Andreikin wasn't just a matter of arbitrary luck.
"They were top seeds" is a non-argument if you don't play accordingly during the event. Conversely, Dariusz Swiercz deserved his bronze medal (or at least 3rd-5th place, here tiebreaks were a bit arbitrary), irrelevant that he was seeded only 26th. Salgado Lopez was seeded 5th and finished 19th, most strikingly Spoelman was seeded 9th and finished 63rd with 6.5/13 - I don't know what his problem was, had his coach run out of opening prep because it was all spent on Topalov??
Spike
1 year 5 months ago
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In the 4th game how can Yilmaz M could lose? The position is clear a black win ???
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