World Junior Chess Championship round 6

IM Wesley So and GM Ahmed Adly leading

Junior section

IM Wesley So and GM Ahmed Adly are leading the World Junior Chess Championship 2007 in Yerevan, Armenia. They have 5,0/6, but the final outcome is far from being decided. There are 8 players with 4,5/6 and 10 more with 4,0/5. In this chasing pack of close to 20 players we find the top seeded GM Wang Hao, GM Rodshtein, GM Stellwagen, and GM Laznicka.

In the derby of round 6 GM Meier held to a draw IM Wesley So. The same result was produced between GM Rodshtein and GM Stellwagen. GM Adly used the situation and scored a full point against IM Melkumyan to join IM Wesley So on top of the table

Tomorrow is the big clash between the two leaders on board one - GM Adly - IM Wesley So. GM Wang Hao will play against local hope IM Grigoryan. In another derby GM Stellwagen will clash with the German favorite GM Meier. Board 4 is IM Gopal Geetha against GM Rodshtein and board 5 is the untitled Ashwin Jayaram against GM Laznicka.

Girls section

WIM Vera Nebolsina continues leading with full 6,0/6 points after today's victory against WGM Karavade. Top seeded IM Harika also won against the US WFM Abrahamyan and is one point behind at 4th position.Surprisingly between the two we find WFM Hoolt and WGM Vega, with the same points as IM Harika, but better tiebreak. The second seeded IM Tairova finally managed to win a game, but she is still trailing at 31st position with 3,0/6.

Tomorrow is a decisive day, as WIM Vera Nebolsina will clash with IM Harika, and WGM Vega and WFM Hoolt will decide in a match who will stay in the fight for the first places.

Previous reports

World Junior Championship round 5

World Junior Championship round 4

World Junior Championship previews

Standings Juniors

1 PHI IM So Wesley 2531 5,0
2 EGY GM Adly Ahmed 2494 5,0
3 ISR GM Rodshtein Maxim 2615 4,5
4 NED GM Stellwagen Daniel 2639 4,5
5 IND IM Gopal Geetha Narayanan 2520 4,5
6 CHN GM Wang Hao 2643 4,5
7 GER GM Meier Georg 2558 4,5
8 CZE GM Laznicka Viktor 2610 4,5
9 ARM IM Grigoryan Avetik 2489 4,5
10 IND Ashwin Jayaram 2478 4,5
11 ARM GM Pashikian Arman 2534 4,0
12 RUS IM Romanov Evgeny 2515 4,0
13 RUS GM Popov Ivan 2539 4,0
14 RUS GM Andreikin Dmitry 2555 4,0
15 ISR IM Kaplan Sasha 2466 4,0
16 IND GM Negi Parimarjan 2514 4,0
17 ARM IM Melkumyan Hrant 2469 4,0
18 GEO IM Sanikidze Tornike 2455 4,0
19 HUN IM Banusz Tamas 2491 4,0
20 IND IM Gupta Abhijeet 2470 4,0
21 GEO IM Jojua Davit 2434 3,5
22 ENG GM Howell David Wei Ling 2527 3,5
23 KAZ Alaguzov Maxat 2358 3,5
24 UZB Khamrakulov Dzurabek 2357 3,5
25 ENG GM Jones Gawain C. B. 2567 3,5
26 CHI Garcia Cardenas Pablo 2149 3,5
27 IND GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. 2492 3,5
28 EGY GM Amin Bassem 2561 3,5
29 AUT IM Ragger Markus 2528 3,5
30 UKR IM Vovk Yuri 2561 3,5
31 CUB IM Corrales Jimenez Fidel 2513 3,5
32 FRA IM Feller Sebastien 2513 3,5
33 ARM Tamazyan Haik 2072 3,0
34 RUS Kulakov Viacheslav 2261 3,0

Standings girls

1 WIM Nebolsina Vera RUS 2349 6,0
2 WFM Hoolt Sarah GER 2199 5,0
3 WGM Vega Gutierrez Sabrina ESP 2331 5,0
4 IM Harika Dronavalli IND 2480 5,0
5 WGM Karavade Eesha Sanjay IND 2331 4,0
6 WGM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2307 4,0
7 WFM Guramishvili Sopiko GEO 2305 4,0
8 WFM Abrahamyan Tatev USA 2246 4,0
9 WIM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2244 4,0
10 WGM Mongontuul Bathuyag MGL 2389 4,0
11 Padmini Rout IND 2226 4,0
12 Hairapetian Anna ARM 2030 4,0
13 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta POL 2371 4,0
14 WFM Borosova Zuzana SVK 2233 4,0
15 WFM Airapetian Tatevik RUS 2193 4,0
16 Limontaite Simona LTU 2141 4,0
17 WIM Dauletova Gulmira KAZ 2240 4,0
18 WFM Gasik Anna POL 2191 4,0
19 WIM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2262 3,5
20 WGM Melia Salome GEO 2364 3,5
21 Martirosian Lia ARM 2121 3,5
22 WGM Arutyunova Diana UKR 2256 3,5
23 Priya Panneer Ramachandran IND 2129 3,5
24 WFM Kulon Klaudia POL 2139 3,5
25 Markantonaki Haritomeni GRE 2161 3,0
26 Yemi Jelsen INA 0 3,0
27 Gutierrez Mancillas Alicia Abi MEX 1981 3,0
28 Grigorian Marine RUS 2078 3,0
29 Darbinyan Nune ARM 2089 3,0
30 Kharatyan Anahit ARM 2102 3,0