TWIC is 30. First issue 17th September 1994.
World Junior Championships 2012 (Games and Results)
World Junior Championships 2012
Mark Crowther - Wednesday 15th August 2012
Winner Alexander Ipatov of Turkey and second place Richard Rapport of Hungary. Photo © ChessDom Official site with reports, live coverage, photos etc. | http://wjcc2012.chessdom.com/
The World Junior Championships took place in Athens 2nd-16th August 2012. Alexander Ipatov took the gold medal on tie-break from Richard Rapport after both scored 10/13. Favourite Ding Liren finished on 9.5. Guo Qi of China took the women's title ahead on tie-break form Nastassia Ziaziulkina, Anastasia Bodnaruk and Warda Aulia Medina all scoring 9.5/13. Alexander Ipatov's trainer Efstratios Grivas has produced an interesting pdf file on the background of the winner. Game and results below.
World Juniors U20 2012 (Athens GRE)
Wed 1st Aug 2012 - Thu 16th Aug 2012 -
Official Site - Results
World Juniors U20 (13 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Open Games
World Juniors U20 g (13 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Girls Games
World Juniors U20 (13 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Open Games
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| World Juniors U20 Athens GRE Wed 1st Aug 2012 - Thu 16th Aug 2012
Leading Final Round 13 Standings: |
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| Rk | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 |
| 1 | Ipatov Alexander | GM | TUR | 2577 | 10.0 | 30375 |
| 2 | Rapport Richard | GM | HUN | 2605 | 10.0 | 30059 |
| 3 | Ding Liren | GM | CHN | 2695 | 9.5 | 30192 |
| 4 | Grandelius Nils | GM | SWE | 2562 | 9.5 | 29832 |
| 5 | Yu Yangyi | GM | CHN | 2635 | 9.0 | 30438 |
| 6 | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | GM | ARM | 2567 | 9.0 | 30174 |
| 7 | Zherebukh Yaroslav | GM | UKR | 2629 | 9.0 | 29366 |
| 8 | Indjic Aleksandar | IM | SRB | 2481 | 9.0 | 29093 |
| 9 | Huschenbeth Niclas | GM | GER | 2532 | 9.0 | 29017 |
| 10 | Hansen Eric | IM | CAN | 2472 | 9.0 | 28596 |
| 11 | Wei Yi | FM | CHN | 2418 | 8.5 | 30449 |
| 12 | Shimanov Aleksandr | GM | RUS | 2596 | 8.5 | 30109 |
| 13 | Van Kampen Robin | GM | NED | 2565 | 8.5 | 29411 |
| 14 | Antipov Mikhail Al | IM | RUS | 2462 | 8.5 | 29175 |
| 15 | Andersen Mads | IM | DEN | 2464 | 8.5 | 27980 |
| 16 | Grover Sahaj | IM | IND | 2516 | 8.0 | 29774 |
| 17 | Cori Jorge | GM | PER | 2487 | 8.0 | 29751 |
| 18 | Salem A R Saleh | GM | UAE | 2546 | 8.0 | 29260 |
| 19 | Yilmaz Mustafa | IM | TUR | 2543 | 8.0 | 29212 |
| 20 | Holt Conrad | IM | USA | 2498 | 8.0 | 28961 |
| 21 | Schreiner Peter | FM | AUT | 2444 | 8.0 | 28921 |
| 22 | Baron Tal | GM | ISR | 2451 | 8.0 | 28851 |
| 23 | Kovalev Vladislav | IM | BLR | 2485 | 8.0 | 28842 |
| 24 | Heimann Andreas | IM | GER | 2493 | 8.0 | 28812 |
| 25 | Bluebaum Matthias | IM | GER | 2424 | 8.0 | 28809 |
| 26 | Shyam Sundar M | IM | IND | 2486 | 8.0 | 28593 |
| 27 | Gao Rui | IM | CHN | 2442 | 8.0 | 28402 |
| 28 | Kanarek Marcel | IM | POL | 2487 | 8.0 | 27853 |
| 29 | Shyam Nikil P | IM | IND | 2484 | 8.0 | 27693 |
| 30 | Bajarani Ulvi | IM | AZE | 2446 | 8.0 | 27691 |
| 31 | Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu | ROU | 2342 | 8.0 | 27528 | |
| 32 | Lapidus Mark | EST | 2129 | 7.5 | 29307 | |
| 33 | Oparin Grigoriy | IM | RUS | 2488 | 7.5 | 29117 |
| 34 | Urkedal Frode | IM | NOR | 2473 | 7.5 | 28960 |
| 35 | Soors Stef | FM | BEL | 2364 | 7.5 | 28033 |
| 36 | Hernandez Sanchez Jairo Andres | FM | COL | 2288 | 7.5 | 27950 |
| 37 | Sodikov Ilyas | KAZ | 2234 | 7.5 | 27358 | |
| 38 | Mihok Oliver | IM | HUN | 2456 | 7.5 | 27310 |
| 39 | Galopoulos Nikolaos | GRE | 2402 | 7.5 | 27041 | |
| 40 | Farid Firman Syah | CM | INA | 2318 | 7.5 | 25971 |
| 41 | Grigoryan Karen H | IM | ARM | 2529 | 7.0 | 29885 |
| 42 | Kigel Dmytro | FM | UKR | 2276 | 7.0 | 29532 |
| 43 | Hambleton Aman | FM | CAN | 2244 | 7.0 | 29390 |
| 44 | Potpara Nikola | MNE | 2201 | 7.0 | 29062 | |
| 45 | Codenotti Marco | FM | ITA | 2314 | 7.0 | 28602 |
| 46 | Pavlidis Antonios | IM | GRE | 2466 | 7.0 | 28562 |
| 47 | Ghosh Diptayan | FM | IND | 2417 | 7.0 | 28545 |
| 48 | Griffiths Ryan Rhys | FM | IRL | 2362 | 7.0 | 28247 |
| 49 | Baghdasaryan Vahe | IM | ARM | 2368 | 7.0 | 28214 |
| 50 | Ladva Ottomar | EST | 2153 | 7.0 | 28177 | |
| 51 | Zhou Yang-Fan | IM | ENG | 2430 | 7.0 | 28112 |
| 52 | Dimitrov Radoslav | IM | BUL | 2424 | 7.0 | 27962 |
| 53 | Kilpatrick Callum | FM | ENG | 2326 | 7.0 | 27950 |
| 54 | Anwesh Upadhyaya | IM | IND | 2374 | 7.0 | 27887 |
| 55 | Valsecchi Alessio | IM | ITA | 2427 | 7.0 | 27852 |
| 56 | Mazur Stefan | IM | SVK | 2394 | 7.0 | 27497 |
| 57 | Arvola Benjamin | NOR | 2300 | 7.0 | 27278 | |
| 58 | Gemy Jose Daniel | FM | BOL | 2345 | 7.0 | 27091 |
| 59 | Malikentzos Sotirios | FM | GRE | 2337 | 7.0 | 26852 |
| 60 | Gantar Jan | SLO | 2218 | 7.0 | 26400 | |
| 61 | Debashis Das | IM | IND | 2446 | 6.5 | 29793 |
| 62 | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr | FM | IND | 2240 | 6.5 | 28763 |
| 63 | Barbosa Evandro Amorim | IM | BRA | 2436 | 6.5 | 28441 |
| 64 | Torres Juan Camilo | COL | 2291 | 6.5 | 28168 | |
| 65 | Minko Vladimir | RUS | 2257 | 6.5 | 28167 | |
| 66 | Firat Burak | IM | TUR | 2423 | 6.5 | 28066 |
| 67 | De Filomeno Simone | FM | ITA | 2358 | 6.5 | 28006 |
| 68 | Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis | GRE | 2109 | 6.5 | 27783 | |
| 69 | Rombaldoni Axel | IM | ITA | 2494 | 6.5 | 27358 |
| 70 | Arat Ufuk Sezen | TUR | 2124 | 6.5 | 26929 | |
| 71 | Jacko Vladimir | FM | SVK | 2349 | 6.5 | 26602 |
| 72 | Brown Andrew | IM | AUS | 2296 | 6.5 | 26173 |
| 73 | Thavandiran Shiyam | FM | CAN | 2301 | 6.0 | 28968 |
| 74 | Aggelis Nikolaos | FM | GRE | 2352 | 6.0 | 28501 |
| 75 | Kleinman Michael | FM | CAN | 2330 | 6.0 | 28306 |
| 76 | Podolsky Anton | UKR | 2246 | 6.0 | 28290 | |
| 77 | Sreeves Clement | SCO | 2191 | 6.0 | 27834 | |
| 78 | Leiva Giuseppe | FM | PER | 2283 | 6.0 | 27733 |
| 79 | Nadirashvili Shalva | GEO | 2151 | 6.0 | 27694 | |
| 80 | Larmuseau Maarten | BEL | 2245 | 6.0 | 27536 | |
| 81 | Vaicekauskas Gytis | LTU | 2079 | 6.0 | 27473 | |
| 82 | Nuri Kambez | FM | SUI | 2274 | 6.0 | 27288 |
| 83 | Dounis Alexandros | GRE | 2298 | 6.0 | 27214 | |
| 84 | Vasques Antonio Pedro Freixial | POR | 2214 | 6.0 | 27206 | |
| 85 | Velten Paul | FM | FRA | 2366 | 6.0 | 27048 |
| 86 | Grandadam Nicolas | FM | SUI | 2333 | 6.0 | 26803 |
| 87 | Wageih Kareim | IM | EGY | 2332 | 6.0 | 26510 |
| 88 | Rios Cristhian Camilo | FM | COL | 2398 | 6.0 | 26373 |
| 89 | Aghayev Miragha | ITA | 2187 | 5.5 | 28790 | |
| 90 | Stathopoulos Ioannis | GRE | 2216 | 5.5 | 28736 | |
| 91 | Naoum Spyridon | GRE | 2146 | 5.5 | 28335 | |
| 92 | Nishant Malhotra | IND | 2076 | 5.5 | 28111 | |
| 93 | Ivekovic Zvonimir | CRO | 2320 | 5.5 | 28052 | |
| 94 | Ashiku Franc | ALB | 2152 | 5.5 | 27352 | |
| 95 | Kvaratskhelia Dimitri | GEO | 2093 | 5.5 | 27337 | |
| 96 | Zeppos Panagiotis | GRE | 1978 | 5.5 | 27016 | |
| 97 | Liodakis Konstantinos-Spyros | GRE | 2130 | 5.5 | 26978 | |
| 98 | Kalogridakis Georgios | GRE | 2017 | 5.5 | 26760 | |
| 99 | Michelakos Panagiotis | GRE | 2185 | 5.5 | 26759 | |
| 100 | Krysa Leandro | IM | ARG | 2438 | 5.5 | 26521 |
| 101 | Torkkola Henri | FIN | 2123 | 5.5 | 26484 | |
| 102 | Carbone Diego | URU | 2069 | 5.5 | 26240 | |
| 103 | Haarr Jon Kristian | NOR | 2245 | 5.5 | 26028 | |
| 104 | Haria Ravi | ENG | 2054 | 5.5 | 25583 | |
| 105 | Edwards Jonathan | SCO | 2170 | 5.5 | 24720 | |
| 106 | Muhammad Luthfi Ali | CM | INA | 2078 | 5.0 | 28162 |
| 107 | Papasimakopoulos Alexandros | GRE | 2126 | 5.0 | 27454 | |
| 108 | Koutoukidis Panagiotis | GRE | 2167 | 5.0 | 26449 | |
| 109 | Vandevenne Sander | BEL | 2083 | 5.0 | 26206 | |
| 110 | Zulfic Fedja | AUS | 2135 | 5.0 | 26199 | |
| 111 | Larmuseau Michiel | BEL | 2154 | 5.0 | 26191 | |
| 112 | Caetano Hugo Zanotti Mendonca | BRA | 2109 | 4.5 | 27953 | |
| 113 | Yurtseven Melih | TUR | 2126 | 4.5 | 26901 | |
| 114 | Poulopoulos Ioannis | GRE | 2007 | 4.5 | 26687 | |
| 115 | Zwakala Ntando | RSA | 2054 | 4.5 | 26349 | |
| 116 | Stepanyan Henrik | ENG | 2022 | 4.5 | 26268 | |
| 117 | Du Plessis Heinco | RSA | 2075 | 4.5 | 26035 | |
| 118 | Kalofonos Panayotis | GRE | 1806 | 4.5 | 25889 | |
| 119 | Jones William E G | ENG | 2127 | 4.5 | 25679 | |
| 120 | Jefic Srdjan | BIH | 2165 | 4.5 | 24527 | |
| 121 | Capone Nicola | BEL | 2120 | 4.0 | 26586 | |
| 122 | Papasimakopoulos Vasilios | GRE | 1820 | 4.0 | 25656 | |
| 123 | Wu Kevin | CAN | 1905 | 4.0 | 24930 | |
| 124 | Tsiros Fragkiskos Vlasios | GRE | 1897 | 4.0 | 24636 | |
| 125 | Zervos Lazaros | GRE | 1799 | 4.0 | 24501 | |
| 126 | Davis Ashley J | WLS | 1929 | 4.0 | 24077 | |
| 127 | Alexiadis Hristos | GRE | 1769 | 3.5 | 25624 | |
| 128 | Cajahuanca Ramirez Olindo | PER | 1856 | 3.5 | 24248 | |
| 129 | Hatzoudis Gerasimos | GRE | 1843 | 2.5 | 24.5 | |
| 130 | Panagos Theodoros | GRE | 1768 | 2.5 | 12.0 | |
| 130 players | ||||||
World Juniors U20 g (13 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Girls Games
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| World Juniors U20 g Athens GRE Wed 1st Aug 2012 - Thu 16th Aug 2012
Leading Final Round 13 Standings: |
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| Rk | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 |
| 1 | Guo Qi | WGM | CHN | 2358 | 9.5 | 27845 |
| 2 | Ziaziulkina Nastassia | WGM | BLR | 2342 | 9.5 | 27790 |
| 3 | Bodnaruk Anastasia | IM | RUS | 2414 | 9.5 | 27475 |
| 4 | Medina Warda Aulia | WFM | INA | 2218 | 9.5 | 26562 |
| 5 | Arabidze Meri | WIM | GEO | 2379 | 9.0 | 27533 |
| 6 | Cori T Deysi | WGM | PER | 2413 | 8.5 | 27647 |
| 7 | Bulmaga Irina | WIM | ROU | 2380 | 8.5 | 27570 |
| 8 | Sihite Chelsie Monica | WIM | INA | 2162 | 8.5 | 26794 |
| 9 | Wang Jue | CHN | 2355 | 8.5 | 26777 | |
| 10 | Abdulla Khayala | WIM | AZE | 2217 | 8.5 | 25626 |
| 11 | Kulkarni Bhakti | WIM | IND | 2159 | 8.0 | 26927 |
| 12 | Goryachkina Aleksandra | WGM | RUS | 2361 | 8.0 | 26598 |
| 13 | Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea | WIM | COL | 2196 | 8.0 | 26171 |
| 14 | Osmak Iulija | WFM | UKR | 2171 | 8.0 | 25637 |
| 15 | Vojinovic Jovana | WGM | MNE | 2337 | 7.5 | 27215 |
| 16 | Kulon Klaudia | WFM | POL | 2259 | 7.5 | 27046 |
| 17 | Varga Klara | WIM | HUN | 2181 | 7.5 | 26607 |
| 18 | Ibrahimova Sabina | AZE | 2091 | 7.5 | 26053 | |
| 19 | De Seroux Camille | WFM | SUI | 2101 | 7.5 | 25468 |
| 20 | Kashlinskaya Alina | WGM | RUS | 2391 | 7.0 | 26988 |
| 21 | Mona Khaled | WGM | EGY | 2121 | 7.0 | 26357 |
| 22 | Manelidou Maria | GRE | 2056 | 7.0 | 25601 | |
| 23 | Semenova Elena | WIM | RUS | 2134 | 7.0 | 25584 |
| 24 | Schut Lisa | WIM | NED | 2305 | 7.0 | 25544 |
| 25 | Abdumalik Zhansaya | WIM | KAZ | 2193 | 7.0 | 25148 |
| 26 | Orozco Lina Yomayra | WCM | COL | 2150 | 7.0 | 25059 |
| 27 | Narva Triin | WCM | EST | 2028 | 7.0 | 25022 |
| 28 | Unapkoshvili Nani | GEO | 2011 | 7.0 | 24657 | |
| 29 | Ivana Maria Furtado | WFM | IND | 2102 | 7.0 | 24362 |
| 30 | Pavlidou Ekaterini | WIM | GRE | 2237 | 7.0 | 24349 |
| 31 | Cemhan Kardelen | WCM | TUR | 1938 | 6.5 | 26114 |
| 32 | Petrova Irina | WFM | UKR | 2173 | 6.5 | 25993 |
| 33 | Klek Hanna-Marie | GER | 2248 | 6.5 | 25480 | |
| 34 | Batkovskyte Dominyka | LTU | 2096 | 6.5 | 25275 | |
| 35 | Anusca Madalina-Maria | ROU | 2079 | 6.5 | 24854 | |
| 36 | Galunova Tsveta | BUL | 2091 | 6.5 | 24675 | |
| 37 | Pon Nkrithika | WIM | IND | 2119 | 6.5 | 24285 |
| 38 | Kalaydina Regina Veronicka | CAN | 1928 | 6.5 | 24024 | |
| 39 | Ivekovic Ana | CRO | 1959 | 6.0 | 25946 | |
| 40 | Liao Simone | WFM | USA | 1933 | 6.0 | 25647 |
| 41 | Iordanidou Zoi | GRE | 2166 | 6.0 | 25624 | |
| 42 | Nevioselaya Maria | BLR | 2057 | 6.0 | 25078 | |
| 43 | Dominguez Gisella | ARG | 1831 | 6.0 | 24396 | |
| 44 | Lefevre Margaux | FRA | 2043 | 6.0 | 24328 | |
| 45 | Edes Zsofia | SVK | 2081 | 6.0 | 23809 | |
| 46 | Kolaric Spela | WFM | SLO | 2071 | 6.0 | 23724 |
| 47 | Nonkovic Bogdana | SRB | 1950 | 5.5 | 25561 | |
| 48 | Serefidou Despina | GRE | 1865 | 5.5 | 25534 | |
| 49 | Sargsyan Shushanna | ARM | 2047 | 5.5 | 25219 | |
| 50 | Owens Megan R | WLS | 1816 | 5.5 | 24697 | |
| 51 | Imeeva Aisa | RUS | 2095 | 5.5 | 24331 | |
| 52 | Chiarion Elisa | ITA | 1978 | 5.5 | 24293 | |
| 53 | Frey Alisa | WFM | GER | 2035 | 5.5 | 24024 |
| 54 | Forsa Elise | NOR | 1836 | 5.5 | 23967 | |
| 55 | Medeiros Thauane Ferreira | BRA | 1855 | 5.5 | 23294 | |
| 56 | Bucar Natasa | SLO | 2022 | 5.5 | 23109 | |
| 57 | York-Andersen Anna | ENG | 1828 | 5.5 | 22846 | |
| 58 | Messam-Sparks Lateefah | ENG | 1947 | 5.0 | 24406 | |
| 59 | Vatkali Dimitra | GRE | 1936 | 4.5 | 24663 | |
| 60 | Lolici Iselin-Amanda | ROU | 1967 | 4.5 | 24038 | |
| 61 | Koutsogiannopoulou Theodora | GRE | 1897 | 4.5 | 23396 | |
| 62 | Sena Moura Danielle | BRA | 1876 | 4.5 | 22963 | |
| 63 | Terzidaki Alexandra | GRE | 1958 | 4.5 | 22849 | |
| 64 | Tuzi Bruna | ALB | 1546 | 4.0 | 23262 | |
| 65 | Psofimi Milia | GRE | 1437 | 1.0 | 23027 | |
| 66 | Kurbonboyeva Sarvinoz | 2143 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
| 66 players | ||||||
