World Junior Chess Championship 2011

 

 

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World Junior Chess Championship 2011

via World Chess Federation - FIDE von chessdom@gmail.com (Anton Mihailov) am 03.08.11

The SDAT–RAMCO 50th World Junior and 29th Junior Girls Chess Championships 2011was oficially opened at Vani Mahal, Chennai.

Honorable Shri D Jayakumar, Speaker, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and the World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand inaugurated the event making the first move 1.e3 e5 on the board.

World Champion Viswanathan Anand, in his chief guest address said, "I won my world junior title after four attempts, but experience always helps in handling tougher situations. The Tamil Nadu Government has been a constant supporter to chess in the state and this time it has gone up one step up".

Chennai local player V A V Rajesh, a student of Loyola College, Chennai, brought the surprise in round 1, as he held top seed Russian Grandmaster Maxim Matlakov to a draw, in the first round of the SDAT- RAMCO 50th World Junior & 29th Junior Girls Chess Championships 2011 at Hotel Vijay Park.

 

More lesser seeded players stole the show, holding their higher rated opponents in an interesting opening day. Also snatching half a point from Grandmasters were R Ashwath, Sayantan Das, R A Pradeep Kumar and S L Narayanan. These young Indians drew with GMs Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenia), Swiercz Dariusz (Poland), Adhiban Baskaran and S P Sethuraman (both India).

 

The girls section saw higher rated Indian star Bhakti Kulkarni being held to a draw against Woman International Master Guo Emma of Australia. Fifth seed and medal favorite Padmini Rout defeated Brunello Roberta of Italy. Top seed Woman Grandmaster Paikidze Nazi of Georgia scored over Armenian Gevorgyan Maria.

 

Take a look at the large photo gallery, courtesy of Peter Long.

Earlier today World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand inaugurated the Championships together with the Tamil Nadu officials.

More about the WJCC: World Junior Chess Championship 2011 / Participants boys / Participants girls / Official website

This 13-round mega event concludes on 15th August, 2011.

D V Sundar, Vice President, Bharat Singh Chauhan, Hon Secretary, All India Chess Federation, R Anantharam, Chief Arbiter just before the start of the first round

 

 

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