2007 World Youth Chess Championship is over

Antalya, Turkey

The massive 2007 World Youth Chess Championship with 1436 participants that took place on 17-29th November in Antalya, Turkey was complete success. New world champions are hailing from Russia, India, China, USA, Israel, Georgia and Romania. Turkish Chess Federation has set new standards and challenged future organizers to hold the level. TCF press officer Ozgur Akman is reporting that results of local girls WFM Kubra Ozturk and WIM Betul Cemre Yildiz have caused incredible buzz in Turkish mainstream media. 2008 WYCC will be held in Vietnam and on 2009 young lions are once again coming back to Turkey.

Videos from Antalya

WYCC U8 boys (123 players)

1. Konstantin Savenkov RUS 10.0; 2-3. Chingiz Qasimov AZE and Maxim Sinyanskiy RUS 9.0; 4-5. Li Tian Yeoh MAS and Milan Zajic SRB 8.5; 6. Jonathan Chiang USA 8.0 etc

WYCC U8 girls (73 players)

1. Ivana Maria Furtado IND 9.0; 2-3. Gunay Mammadzada AZE and Aydan Hojatova AZE 8.5; 4-7. Zhansaya Abdumalik KAZ, Anastasia Ponomarchuk RUS, Simone Liao USA and Anna Vasenina RUS 8.0 etc

WYCC U10 boys (156 players)

1. Tong Sen Wang CHN 10.0; 2. Mikhail Al. Antipov RUS 9.0; 3-5. Bajaj Prince IND, Bobby Cheng NZL and Tigran Harutyunyan ARM 8.5 etc

WYCC U10 girls (105 players)

1. Anna Styazhkina RUS 9.5; 2-4. Sarah Chiang USA, Yue Fan Guo CHN and Ting Jie Lei CHN 8.5; 5-7. Iryna Fedyuk UKR, Despina Serefidou GRE and Mariam Choladze GEO 8 etc

WYCC U12 boys (160 players)

1-2. Daniel Naroditsky USA and FM Illya Nyzhnyk UKR 9.5; 3-5. Chao Han CHN, Aleksandar Monev BUL and FM Jorge Cori PER 8.5 etc

Daniel Naroditsky

WYCC U12 girls (125 players)

1. Marsel Efroimski ISR 9.5; 2. Dinara Saduakasova KAZ 9.0; 3-4. Qi Guo CHN and Mo Zhai CHN 8.5 etc

WYCC U14 boys (154 players)

1-2. IM Sanan Sjugirov RUS and Marcel Kanarek POL 9.0; 3-5. Chen Wang CHN, Vladimir Belous RUS and FM Dariusz Swiercz POL 8.5 etc

WYCC U14 girls (114 players)

1. WFM Nazi Paikidze GEO 9.5; 2-3. WFM Meri Arabidze GEO and Shalmali Gagare IND 8.5; 4-6. WFM Deysi T Cori PER, Karolina Olsarova CZE and Rout Padmini IND 8.0 etc

WYCC U16 boys (126 players)

1-4. FM Ioan Cristian Chirila ROU, FM Ruben Pereira POR, IM Boris Kharchenko UKR and Aleksey Goganov RUS 8.5; 5-8. FM David Recuero Guerra ESP, FM Levan Bregadze GEO, FM Axel Rombaldoni ITA and FM Sebastian Bogner GER 8.0 etc

WYCC U16 girls (106 players)

1-4. Keti Tsatsalashvili GEO, WFM Olga Girya RUS, Olga Ivanenko UKR and WFM Kubra Ozturk TUR 8.5; 5-6. WFM Guliskhan Nakhbayeva KAZ and WFM Sopiko Guramishvili GEO 8.0 etc

WYCC U18 boys (114 players)

1. GM Ivan Popov RUS 9.0; 2-3. IM Romain Edouard FRA and GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov RUS 8.5; 4-6. IM Avetik Grigoryan ARM, FM Pogos Nakhapetiane RUS and IM Roeland Pruijssers NED 8.0 etc

WYCC U18 girls (80 players)

1. WFM Valentina Gunina RUS 9.0; 2. WIM Katerina Nemcova CZE 8.5; 3-5. WIM Betul Cemre Yildiz TUR, WFM Yulduz Hamrakulova UZB and Irina Andrenko UKR 8.0 etc

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