Both Daniel Naroditsky and Illya Nyzhnyk won their final game to tie for 1st at the World Youth boy’s under 12 section in Turkey. However, Daniel has better tiebreaks and captured the Gold medal.
Sarah Chiang lost her final game while Anna Styazhkina won in the final round. Therefore, Sarah got the Silver medal in the World Youth girl’s under 10 section.
Congratulations to Daniel and Sarah!
Other notable U.S. results:
– Alisa Melekhina scored 7.5 points to finish in a tie for 7th place in the girl’s under 16 section.
– Yang Dai scored 7.5 points to also finish in a tie for 7th place in the girl’s under 14 section.
– FM Ray Robson scored 8 points to finish in a tie for 6th in the boy’s under 14 section.
– Brian Luo scored 8 points to also finish in a tie for 6th in the boy’s under 10 section.
– Simone Liao scored 8 points to finish in a tie for 4th in the girl’s under 8 section.
– Jonathan Chiang scored 8 points to finish in clear 6th place in the boy’s under 8 section.
Well done team USA! Thanks Susan for bringing us this good news. How come the USCF website doesn’t have the final results?
Are Sarah Chiang & Jonathan Chiang related?
I love the picture of the great American flag!!!! It really is patriotic and shows, in so many ways, that the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth and the greatest and best nation in the history of human civilization.
God bless Amererica…the defenders of freedom and human rights!!!!!!!!!!!!! As Lincoln said…the Unites States is “the Last Best hope for the World.”
It is.
And the flag reminds us of our responsibility to aid poor Europe and the rest of the world in this age of terroism.
Do not worry Europe…the U.S.A will defend you…we did it many times before.
Oh, and Paul Morphy beat the best you had to offer….live with it.
WHAT DO BETTER TIE BREAKS MEAN?
HOW DOES A CROSS TABLE WORK?
Jonathan Chiang and Sarah Chiang are brother and sister.
FIDE use progressive score for tie break in the tournament. For example, if you win rd 1 and 2 then your progressive score is 1+2 (your total point at this time). If you draw rd 3 then your progressive score is 3+3.5=6.5. If you lost or draw early, then your progressive score will be lower.
What is the best chess system for breaking a tie??