The 10th European Union Youth Chess Championship took place July 31 – August 9, 2012, in Mureck, Austria. The players were divided into four age categories – U8, U10, U12, and U14, and competed in a 9 rounds Swiss system.

Boys and girls played in the same groups, but with two separate scores. Here are the medal winners of the EU Youth 2012:

Boys U8
Gold: Daniils Horobrijs (Latvia)
Silver: Flavius-Gabriel Stroe (Romania)
Bronze: Ieysaa Bin-Suhayl (England)

GirlsU8
Gold: Samantha Schmidtmann (Germany)
Silver: Dorothea Enache (Austria)
Bronze: Kimberly Schmidtmann (Germany)

Boys U10
Gold: Kirill Chukavin (Estonia)
Silver: Pavel Haase (Czech Republic)
Bronze: Balint Matos (Hungary)

GirlsU10
Gold: Jana Schneider (Germany)
Silver: Gergana Peycheva (Bulgaria)
Bronze: Judit Kovacs (Hungary)

Boys U12
Gold: Florian Mesaros (Austria)
Silver: Jan Vykouk (Czech Republic)
Bronze: Tamas Toth (Hungary)

Girls U12
Gold: Viktoria Radeva (Bulgaria)
Silver: Diana Mirza (Ireland)
Bronze: Eszter Morvay (Slovakia)

Boys U14
Gold: Zsombor Peczely Seb. (Hungary)
Silver: Henrik Haavamae (Estonia)
Bronze: Jan Petr (Czech Republic)

GirlsU14
Gold: Sarah Ramadani (Slovenia)
Silver: Min Wu (Austria)
Bronze: Simona Suchomelova (Czech Republic)

Scroll down for full standings of each group. For more information visit the official website of the competition http://www.jugendschach.at/

Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
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