World Youth Championships - 2008 - Vung Tau Vietnam

Individual  |  Team

India's status as a Chess Superpower confirmed!

Apart from having the current World Champion, as well as the World Junior Men and Ladies Champions coming from India, they also won the titles in the Open U12, U14, U16 and Girls U14 sections. The next best were Croatia who won both the under 18 titles.

Below are the top 5 places in each section. Note the ratings and titles from as young as under 10.

In addition to the above, India also won 8 of the 12 team titles on offer at these championships. View the list below.

Individual Titles:

Open 08							Girls 08
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1		Tran Minh Thang	VIE	0	10,0		1		Abdumalik Zhansaya	KAZ	0	10,0
2		Liu Xiangyi	CHN	0	9,0		2		Zhou Qiyu	FIN	0	8,5
3		Liao Yu Hao	CHN	0	8,5		3		Mammadzada Gunay	AZE	0	8,0
4		Olamaei Alireza	IRI	0	8,0		4		Wang Kelly	CAN	0	8,0
5		Chiang Jonathan	USA	1535	8,0		5		Vu Thi Dieu Uyen	VIE	0	7,5
Open 10							Girls 10
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1		Duda Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2013	9,5		1		Goryachkina Aleksandra	RUS	1899	9,0
2		Xu Yi	CHN	0	8,5		2		Li Zhuoling	CHN	0	9,0
3		Wang Yi Ye	CHN	0	8,5		3		Anastasia Patricks	INA	0	8,0
4		Ghosh Diptayan	IND	2041	8,0		4	WFM	Haussernot Cecile	FRA	1882	8,0
5	FM	Pichot Alan	ARG	1925	8,0		5		Sunyasakta Satpathy	IND	1766	8,0
Open 12							Girls 12
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1		Das Sayantan	IND	2112	9,5		1		Zhai Mo	CHN	2079	8,5
2		Gordievskiy Dmitry	RUS	2217	8,5		2		Osmanodja Filiz	GER	1939	8,5
3	FM	Yang Darwin	USA	2182	8,0		3		Pratyusha Bodda	IND	1945	8,0
4		Ynojosa Felix Jose	ENG	2145	8,0		4	WCM	Medina Warda Aulia	INA	0	8,0
5		Gagare Shardul	IND	2092	8,0		5	WFM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	2047	8,0
Open 14							Girls 14
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	FM	Vidit Santosh Gujrathi	IND	2356	9,0		1	WIM	Padmini Rout	IND	2235	10,0
2		Lortkipanidze Nodar	GEO	2135	8,5		2	WFM	Arabidze Meri	GEO	2182	9,0
3	IM	Swiercz Dariusz	POL	2478	8,0		3		Baciu Diana	MDA	2062	8,0
4	FM	Bajarani Ulvi	AZE	2232	8,0		4	WFM	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2123	8,0
5	FM	Lagarde Maxime	FRA	2332	8,0		5		Camacho Chardine Cheradee	PHI	2100	7,5
Open 16							Girls 16
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	IM	Adhiban B	IND	2439	9,0		1	WFM	Paikidze Nazi	GEO	2292	9,0
2	IM	Sethuraman S P	IND	2441	8,0		2	WFM	Kulon Klaudia	POL	2228	9,0
3		Debashis Das	IND	2309	8,0		3	WIM	Tsatsalashvili Keti	GEO	2235	8,0
4		Soors Stef	BEL	2176	8,0		4	WFM	Le Hoang Tran Chau	VIE	2041	7,5
5		Hansen Eric	CAN	2362	8,0		5		Abylkassymova Raushan	KAZ	1834	7,5
Open 18							Girls 18
Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.		Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	IM	Saric Ivan	CRO	2516	8,0		1	WGM	Golubenko Valentina	CRO	2273	9,0
2	GM	Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son	VIE	2567	8,0		2		Preethi R	IND	2156	8,0
3	FM	Shankland Samuel L	USA	2436	8,0		3	WFM	Girya Olga	RUS	2332	7,5
4	FM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel	ARM	2495	8,0		4	WGM	Nemcova Katerina	CZE	2369	7,5
5	IM	Chirila Ioan Cristian	ROU	2462	8,0		5		Li Panru	CHN	2126	7,5

Team Titles:

The team event results (taking the top 3 scores of a country's players in each section), Gold-Silver-Bronze, are as follows:

Open 18 - Vietnam, Russia, India
Girls 18 - Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Croatia

Open 16 - India, Canada, Vietnam
Girls 16 - Vietnam, India, Georgia

Open 14 - India, Russia, Vietnam
Girls 14 - India, Vietnam, Philippines

Open 12 - India, Vietnam, USA
Girls 12 - India, Russia, Iran

Open 10 - Iran, China, India
Girls 10 - India, Vietnam, China

Open 8 -India, USA, Vietnam
Girls 8 - India, Vietnam, USA