The following 8 young players are competing in the 7th Lausanne Young Masters which takes place in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 13th-18th, 2006. 6 are boys and 2 are girls including India top female superstar GM Humpy Koneru and Russia’s most talented female player (according to Kasparov) IM Tatiana Kosintseva.

GASHIMOV g (AZE, 2644)
ARESHCHENKO g (UKR, 2641)
WANG g (CHN, 2626)
WOJTASZEK g (POL, 2622)
VACHIER- LAGRAVE g (FRA, 2577)
PREDOJEVIC g (BIH, 2568)
KONERU g (IND, 2548)
KOSINTSEVA m (RUS, 2479)

In the first round, Kosintseva drew the top seed Gashimov while Koneru drew the second seed Areshenko. Both young ladies had Black.

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