In the U12 Open Division, Santa Clara's Samuel Sevian won the gold medal, while Cupertino's Cameron Wheeler also tied for first but got the silver medal. In the U14 Open Division, Utah FM Kayden Troff wold the gold medal. In the U8 Open Division, Ohio's Christopher Shen won the bronze medal. Congratulations to the four!
As far as the Weibel alumni goes, Joanna Liu wound up with 7.0 (out of 11) in the Girls U10 Division, while Kevin Moy wound up with 4.5
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
World Youth Chess Tournament - halfway point
The World Youth Chess Tournament is now at the halfway point. Two games were played on Monday, and Tuesday is a free day. Many of the families will be taking excursions to Lake Bled and the Postojna Caves along with the capital city of Ljubljana. Others are sticking around and catching up on homework.
There are two former players from Weibel Elementary that are playing in this tournament, 12 year old Kevin Moy and 10 year old Joanna Liu (pictured on the right, along with Boston's U10 player Carissa Yip). After Round 6, Joanna Liu is 4.5 out of 6.0 in the Girls U10 Division, while Kevin Moy is at 3.5 out of 6.0 in the Open U12 Division.
Other scorers from the Bay Area (out of 6 so far):
Baaji Daggaputi - Boys U8 - 4.5
Kelvin Jiang - Boys U8 - 2.5
Milind Maiti - Boys U8 - 3.0
Ben Rood - Boys U8 - 4.5
Joanna Liu - Girls U10 - 4.5
Rayan Taghizadeh - Boys U10 - 4.5
Ashritha Eswaran - Girls U12 - 4.5
Sam Sevian - Boys U12 - 5.5 (in first place)
Cameron Wheeiler - Boys U12 - 5.0
Kevin Moy - Boys U12 - 3.5
Vignesh Panchanatham - Boys U12 - 4.0
Siddharth Banik - Boys U12 - 4.0
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
World Youth Chess Tournament
The World Youth Chess Tournament, which is the Olympics and the Super Bowl combined of the international scholastic chess world, is taking place from November 7-19. This year, the tournament is being held in the ski resort city of Maribor, Slovenia. There are a total of 1587 total participants in various age categories. This is the most important youth chess event of the year, and therefore we see strong participation of much of the world's best young talents. 90+ participants from the United States are taking part this year in the event, ranging in ages from 6 to 17, including 15 from the Bay Area. Future sites include Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates for 2013 (August) and in Durban, South Africa in 2014 (September).
For the 5th year in a row, a current or former Weibel Elementary attendee will be participating in the event. This year, the participants are Horner Junior High and Weibel graduate 7th grader Kevin Moy in the Open U12 section, and former Weibel attendee 5th grader Joanna Liu in the Girls U10 section. For Kevin, this will be his first time at the World Youth, while this will be Joanna's 2nd trip to the World Youth. Joanna represented the US at the World Youth tournament two years ago in Greece in the Girls U8 division.
Other Weibel attendees in the past were Alisha Chawla (2008, 2009) and Michael Wang (2011).
The official website for more information is at http://www.wycc2012.com. Live games and results can be seen at http://www.chessdom.com and at http://www.chess-results.com. Look for further updates on this blog as well.
For USA qualification rules for future World Youth tournaments, please refer to the USCF guidelines page here (subject to change).
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