Awonder Liang, winner of the 2011 Susan Polgar Foundation World Open for Boys (picture above) in Chicago, has just captured the Gold medal at the World Youth under 8 in Brazil. He was a full point ahead of the field going into the final round. In spite of the last round lost, he still won on tiebreaks.

Boys under 8

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Liang Awonder USA 1872 7.5 43.0 0.0 3 2 1.85 0.15 15 2.3
2

Ram Aravind L N IND 1869 7.5 38.0 0.0 2 2 0.90 1.10 15 16.5
3

Yu Kaifeng CHN 0 7.5 36.0 0.0 5 3.5



4

Thilakaratne G M H SRI 1528 7.5 34.0 0.0 1 1 0.08 0.92 30 27.6
5

Teclaf Pawel POL 1594 7.0 35.0 0.0 1 0 0.17 -0.17 30 -5.1
6

Medvedyk Volodymir UKR 0 6.5 35.0 0.0 7 4.5



7

Peng David T USA 1945 6.5 34.5 0.0 1 0 0.60 -0.60 30 -18.0
8

Gavrilescu David ROU 1800 6.5 29.5 0.0 0 0 0.00 0.00 30 0.0


Boys under 10


Silver medalist Li Ruifeng, recent participant of the SPICE Cup Amateur Open in Lubbock, Texas

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Zhu Yi CHN 0 7.5 42.0 0.0 7 6



2

Li Ruifeng USA 1919 7.0 39.5 0.0 7 6 4.22 1.78 15 26.7
3

Rathanvel V S IND 1906 7.0 38.5 0.0 7 6 4.33 1.67 15 25.0
4

Aleksandrov Zakhar RUS 2116 7.0 38.0 0.0 7 5.5 5.96 -0.46 30 -13.8
5

Rakesh Kumar Jena IND 1865 7.0 37.0 0.0 7 5 4.31 0.69 15 10.4
6
FM Tabatabaei M Amin IRI 2028 7.0 36.5 0.0 6 4.5 4.65 -0.15 15 -2.3
7

Poghosyan Tigran GER 1770 7.0 34.0 0.0 4 2 1.79 0.21 15 3.2
8

Xie Tianming USA 0 7.0 33.5 0.0 6 4.5



Jeffrey Xiong, recent winner of the SPICE Cup Amateur Open in Lubbock, Texas

Boys under 12

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1

Karthikeyan Murali IND 2154 7.5 39.5 0.0 9 7.5 5.97 1.53 15 23.0
2
FM Gledura Benjamin HUN 2230 7.5 39.0 0.0 8 6.5 6.26 0.24 15 3.6
3

Song Michael CAN 2032 7.0 37.0 0.0 9 7 5.11 1.89 15 28.4
4
FM Lorparizangeneh Shahin IRI 2175 7.0 37.0 0.0 9 7 7.02 -0.02 15 -0.3
5
FM Xiong Jeffrey USA 2056 7.0 36.0 0.0 9 7 5.76 1.24 15 18.6
6

Haria Ravi ENG 2045 7.0 35.5 0.0 9 7 5.68 1.32 15 19.8
7

Tari Aryan NOR 2227 7.0 35.0 0.0 7 5 5.61 -0.61 15 -9.1


Boys under 18

Rk.

Nome FED EloI Pts. Des 1 Des 2 n w we w-we K rtg+/-
1
GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2556 8.0 43.0 0.0 9 8 6.68 1.32 10 13.2
2
GM Fedoseev Vladimir RUS 2523 7.0 37.5 0.0 9 7 6.53 0.47 10 4.7
3
IM Debashis Das IND 2369 7.0 36.0 0.0 9 7 5.04 1.96 10 19.6
4

Stany G A IND 2395 7.0 33.5 0.0 9 7 5.92 1.08 10 10.8
5

Kozganbay Erken KAZ 2249 6.5 33.0 0.0 9 6.5 3.50 3.00 15 45.0
6
IM Zhou Yang-Fan ENG 2436 6.5 32.5 0.0 9 6.5 6.26 0.24 10 2.4
7

Graf Felix GER 2356 6.5 32.5 0.0 9 6.5 5.79 0.71 15 10.6
8
IM Mammadov Zaur Fazahir Oglu AZE 2349 6.0 35.0 0.0 9 6 5.07 0.93 10 9.3
9
FM Rosen Eric S USA 2305 6.0 33.5 0.0 9 6 4.18 1.82 15 27.3
10
WGM Cori T. Deysi *
 PER 2414 6.0 32.5 0.0 9 6 5.62 0.38 10 3.

Full standings in all sections here: http://chess-results.com/tnr58159.aspx

Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar November 27, 2011 College Chess, General News, Susan's Personal Blog 5 Comments
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