Divya Deshmukh and Sanskriti Goyal secure Bronze in World Youth Championships

Report by WFM Kavitha J.E

The World Youth Chess Championship 2018 at Porto Carras, Halkidiki, Greece came to an end on 30-Oct-2018 after eleven days of chess in the beautiful scenic city. The event had a total of 635 participants from 79 countries. Indian girls had their day with WIM Divya Deshmukh winning against the overnight leader Ning Kaiyu of China on the top board with white pieces and Sanskriti Goyal winning against Srdanovic Jovana of Serbia with black pieces made them to win the bronze medal in U-14 and U-16 girls respectively.

Apart from this India got four medals in the girls’ section in U-14 category WCM Jyothsna L finished 5th place, in U-16 category WFM Makhija Aashna finished 5th place, in U -18 category WIM Tejaswini Sagar finished 4th place and WFM Arpita Mukherjee finished 6th place. And few players had received the IM and WIM norm , Arpita Mukherjee got her final WIM norm in this tournament and is expected to get her WIM title soon, WFM Tarini Goyal got her maiden 11 games WIM norm and Sankalp Gupta who played in U-16 boys also got his third and final IM norm in this Championship.

Girls U-14

Final Ranking

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ		FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	2		Ning Kaiyu	F14	w	CHN	2217	9,0	0,0	73,5	78,0	6	8
2	5	WCM	Song Yuxin	F14	w	CHN	2178	8,5	0,0	72,5	77,5	5	7
3	4	WIM	Divya Deshmukh	F14	w	IND	2180	8,5	0,0	71,5	76,5	5	8
4	26		Hrebenshchykova Yelyzaveta	F14	w	UKR	1968	8,0	0,0	62,5	65,5	6	7
5	11	WCM	Jyothsna L	F14	w	IND	2060	7,5	0,0	74,5	79,0	5	4
6	8	WCM	Garifullina Leya	F14	w	RUS	2106	7,5	0,0	72,5	78,0	6	5
7	20	WCM	Mrudul Dehankar	F14	w	IND	1996	7,5	0,0	70,5	74,0	6	7
8	21	WFM	Eizaguerri Floris Maria	F14	w	ESP	1987	7,5	0,0	68,5	73,5	5	6
9	23	WFM	Stepanyan Eva	F14	w	RUS	1981	7,5	0,0	67,5	72,0	5	6
10	29	WIM	Zhu Evelyn	F14	w	USA	1926	7,5	0,0	66,5	71,0	5	5

Girls U-16

Final Ranking

Rk.	SNo		Name	Typ		FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	3		Muetsch Annmarie	F16	w	GER	2206	8,5	0,0	67,0	72,5	5	7
2	22	WFM	Kucharska Honorata	F16	w	POL	2073	8,5	0,0	63,5	67,0	5	6
3	40		Sanskriti Goyal	F16	w	IND	1971	8,0	0,0	60,5	64,5	6	7
4	24	WFM	Srdanovic Jovana	F16	w	SRB	2072	7,5	0,0	74,5	78,5	6	6
5	4	WFM	Beydullayeva Govhar	F16	w	AZE	2202	7,5	0,0	71,0	77,0	6	4
6	5	WFM	Makhija Aashna	F16	w	IND	2197	7,5	0,0	67,5	73,0	5	5
7	8		Berdnyk Mariia	F16	w	UKR	2179	7,5	0,0	67,5	71,0	6	7
8	23	WFM	Rudzinska Michalina	F16	w	POL	2073	7,5	0,0	66,0	70,0	5	5
9	15	WFM	Cervantes Landeiro Thalia	F16	w	USA	2129	7,5	0,0	65,0	68,5	5	5
10	17	WFM	Schulze Lara	F16	w	GER	2122	7,5	0,0	62,5	67,0	5	7