The Chinese Chess Association (CCA) and Chongqing Yu Cai Middle School are organizing the World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2013 on 21-30th July in Chongqing, China.

The Youth Olympiad will be conducted under the auspices of Federation Internationale Des Echecs (FIDE), Chongqing Municipal People’s Government and Chongqing Sports Bureau.

The top three teams shall be awarded Medals (Gold, Silver & Bronze) and Cups. Board Prizes in the form of Medals will also be awarded to the respective winners. The Certificates of participation will be presented to each player.

The tournament format is 10 Round Swiss System. Each match between teams will be conducted over 4 boards. 90 minutes to finish with 30 seconds increment from first move.

Tournament website

Top teams

1. Russia
1 IM Vladislav Artemyev 2554 RUS
2 IM Grigory Oparin 2497 RUS
3 FM Kirill Alekseenko 2449 RUS
4 IM Alexey Zenzera 2418 RUS
5 Maxim Vavulin 2356 RUS

2. India
1 IM Shardul Annasaheb Gagare 2419 IND
2 IM Karthikeyan Murali 2443 IND
3 IM Diptaya Ghosh 2473 IND
4 FM Sayantan Das 2368 IND
5 Gireman Jagadeesan 2192 IND

3. Hungary
1 FM Benjamin Gledura 2421 HUN
2 FM Gergely Kantor 2371 HUN
3 FM Tibor Kende Antal 2357 HUN
4 FM Balazs Csonka 2330 HUN
5 FM Bence Korpa 2308 HUN

4. China 1
1 GM Wei Yi 2557 CN1
2 Bai Jinshi 2399 CN1
3 Wang Yiye 2249 CN1
4 Dai Changren 2174 CN1
5 Xu Minghui 2117 CN1

5. Australia 1
1 FM Bobby Cheng 2438 AU1
2 Anton Smirnov 2289 AU1
3 Justin Tan 2322 AU1
4 Ariel Dale Segal 2310 AU1
5 Yi Liu 2174 AU1

6. America 2
1 FM Michael H Bodek 2386 US2
2 FM Liou Yian 2381 US2
3 Wang Kevin 2297 US2
4 FM Shen Arthur 2286 US2
5 Gu Christopher 2264 US2

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