The European Youth Chess Championship 2012 will take place 17-25 August in Prague, Czech Republic. A total of 1173 players from 46 nations participate in the massive youth chess event. They will be seeking medals in 12 categories, one for boys and one for girls in each age group U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, and U18.
The largest delegation comes from Russia with 185 young players. The hosts the the Czech Republic are with 154, Poland 59, Slovakia 47, Turkey 46. Top players are FM David Anton, IM Hovhannes Gabuzyan, IM Vojtech Plat, IM Kamil Dragun, etc.
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| 1 | FM | Anton Guijarro David | ESP | 2526 |
| 2 | IM | Gabuzyan Hovhannes | ARM | 2488 |
| 3 | IM | Plat Vojtech | CZE | 2480 |
| 4 | IM | Dragun Kamil | POL | 2465 |
| 5 | Moiseenko Vadim | RUS | 2454 | |
| 6 | IM | Sadzikowski Daniel | POL | 2444 |
| 7 | IM | Forcen Esteban Daniel | ESP | 2440 |
| 8 | IM | Mammadov Zaur | AZE | 2431 |
| 9 | IM | Pardo Simon David | ESP | 2430 |
| 10 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | ENG | 2430 |
| 11 | IM | Moussard Jules | FRA | 2429 |
| 12 | IM | Kadric Denis | BIH | 2418 |
| 13 | FM | Tilicheev Viacheslav | RUS | 2416 |
| 14 | IM | Sochacki Christophe | FRA | 2412 |
| 15 | FM | Nikologorskiy Konstantin | RUS | 2400 |
| 16 | FM | Danilenko Dmitriy | UKR | 2395 |
| 17 | FM | Meribanov Vitaly | BLR | 2381 |
| 18 | FM | Altini Nicola | ITA | 2379 |
| 19 | IM | Horvath David | HUN | 2376 |
| 20 | FM | Kriebel Tadeas | CZE | 2376 |
| 21 | FM | Handler Lukas | AUT | 2368 |
| 22 | FM | Savitskiy Sergey | RUS | 2368 |
| 23 | FM | Straka Jozef | SVK | 2360 |
| 24 | Shahinyan David | ARM | 2351 | |
| 25 | FM | Meskovs Nikita | LAT | 2347 |
| 26 | Tomazini Zan | SLO | 2345 | |
| 27 | FM | Givon Asaf | ISR | 2340 |
| 28 | Doros Radu-Marian | ROU | 2338 | |
| 29 | FM | Godart Francois | BEL | 2337 |
| 30 | FM | Berchtenbreiter Maximilian | GER | 2326 |
| 31 | CM | Emiroglu Cankut | TUR | 2299 |
| 32 | FM | Ostovic Matija | CRO | 2290 |
| 33 | Ochsner Bjorn Moller | DEN | 2290 | |
| 34 | Van Overdam Julian | NED | 2273 | |
| 35 | Pop Alexandru | ROU | 2271 | |
| 36 | Gaehwiler Gabriel | SUI | 2267 | |
| 37 | Franklin Samuel G A | ENG | 2264 | |
| 38 | Pagerka Martin | SVK | 2258 | |
| 39 | Blazeka Matej | CRO | 2245 | |
| 40 | Horvat Dan-Sebastian | ROU | 2242 | |
| 41 | Schreiner Till | GER | 2234 | |
| 42 | Sofranov Velizar | BUL | 2218 | |
| 43 | Abbasov Amil | AZE | 2209 | |
| 44 | CM | Lewicki Miroslaw | POL | 2200 |
| 45 | Braun Marek | CZE | 2200 | |
| 46 | Andreev Sasho | BUL | 2197 | |
| 47 | Verstraeten Reinaert | BEL | 2191 | |
| 48 | Seidl Stepan | CZE | 2187 | |
| 49 | Jovanovic Bojan P | SRB | 2179 | |
| 50 | CM | Balacek Tadeas | CZE | 2178 |
| 51 | Drnovsek Gal | SLO | 2177 | |
| 52 | Guttulsrud Odd Martin | NOR | 2172 | |
| 53 | Silva Rodriguez Julio | ESP | 2165 | |
| 54 | Lis Marek | POL | 2162 | |
| 55 | Nadirashvili Shalva | GEO | 2151 | |
| 56 | Pecurica Milos | MNE | 2132 | |
| 57 | Papakonstantinou Dimitrios | GRE | 2129 | |
| 58 | Romanov Stanislav | RUS | 2115 | |
| 59 | Sosovicka Juraj | SVK | 2108 | |
| 60 | Aperia Jakob | SWE | 2098 | |
| 61 | Rubes Jan | CZE | 2097 | |
| 62 | Swijsen Lars | BEL | 2097 | |
| 63 | Pastar Slaven | BIH | 2093 | |
| 64 | Mcclement Andrew | SCO | 2088 | |
| 65 | Ronka Erik | FIN | 2086 | |
| 66 | Pospisil Martin | CZE | 2084 | |
| 67 | Lhotka Jiri | CZE | 2082 | |
| 68 | Olson Hamish | SCO | 2055 | |
| 69 | Starek Stanislav | CZE | 2052 | |
| 70 | Kyrkjebo Erlend | NOR | 2047 | |
| 71 | Pavel Sebastian-Ionut | ROU | 2045 | |
| 72 | Bizovi Mihai | MDA | 2044 | |
| 73 | Suchomel Ales | CZE | 2044 | |
| 74 | Foster James M | ENG | 2037 | |
| 75 | Scott Gordon W | ENG | 2026 | |
| 76 | Real Thibault | BEL | 2010 | |
| 77 | Panainte Daniel-Iulian | ROU | 2005 | |
| 78 | Alfimov Igor | CZE | 1969 | |
| 79 | Petras Marian | SVK | 1958 | |
| 80 | Konvicka Martin | CZE | 1937 | |
| 81 | Archer-Lock Adrian | ENG | 1923 | |
| 82 | Krusina Patrik | CZE | 1922 | |
| 83 | Tahaoglu Ugur Barkin | TUR | 1912 | |
| 84 | Gabovits Ilia | EST | 1893 | |
| 85 | Poska Karolis | LTU | 1884 | |
| 86 | Belsley Alexandre | POR | 1842 |
