WGM Guo Qi is the World Junior Chess Champion 2012 for Girls

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Hi everyone,

WGM Guo Qi is the World Junior Chess Champion, according to the final report from the chess tournament in Athens, Greece, via Chessdom. Four players finished with 9,5/13 after the last round of the World Junior Chess Championship for girls. However, with best tiebreak was WGM Guo Qi, ahead of WGM Nastassia Ziaziulkina, and IM Anastasia Bodnaruk, while WFM Aulia Medina Warda remained out of the medals.

More about Guo Qi
Guo Qi, born in 1995, is one of the young chess talents of China. She first appeared on the FIDE rating list in 2008 after playing 16 rated games and getting initial rating of 2027.

Her star starting rising in 2009 at the 8th Asian Continental Championship, where her talent was obvious to the professionals. Guo Qi is especially active since November 2010, while in the Chinese Chess Championship in 2011 he managed to score wins against strong players as Huang Qian, Ju Wenjun, etc. In the Chinese league the same year she continued the great performance, defeating Harika Dronavalli among others. Based on this, Quo Qi was awarded the Women Grand Master 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2011, 4-7 June 2011, Al Ain, UAE.

Currently Guo Qi is number 3 in the world U18 and in the female top 100 list with rating 2358. She is certainly going to advance based on the rating points won at the World junior Chess Championship.

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GM Alexander Ipatov is World Junior Chess Champion 2012

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video chess round-up from World Junior Chess Championship 2011

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For the chess video this Thursday we have a nice composition all the way from the World Junior Chess Championship 2011 that was held recently in Chennai, New Delhi. Enjoy.





You can find a full channel of YouTube videos on the championship at this link.

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World Junior Chess Championship 2011 in India in August

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Hi everyone,

The All India Chess Federation on behalf of the FIDE is going to host the World Junior Chess Championship - 2011 to be held in the south Indian city of Chennai from August 1-16 August 2011. You can find more details here.

The championships will be played in 13 rounds, Swiss System, in accordance with FIDE regulations of July 1, 2009. According to FIDE rules, the rate of play will be 90 minutes for the 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for all remaining moves with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. According to FIDE regulations, entitled to participate are chess players born on and
after January 1, 1991. Players would not be allowed to accept a draw before 30 moves!

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