Richard Rapport and Alexander Ipatov successfully defended with black pieces in the 12th round of the World Junior Chess Championship to sign draws against Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Wei Yi respectively and maintain the joint lead heading into the final day of the competition.
Top seed and reigning China champion Ding Liren finally made a move towards the top of the scoreboard as he defeated the Russian representative Aleksandr Shimanov.
Ding Liren is now sharing the 3rd place with Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and there follow Wei Yi, Yu Yangyi and Nils Grandelius with 8,5 points each.
Top round 13 pairings are GM Ding Liren – GM Rapport Richard, GM Ipatov Alexander – GM Shimanov Aleksandr, GM Zherebukh Yaroslav – GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel, GM Grandelius Nils – FM Wei Yi and GM Van Kampen Robin – GM Yu Yangyi. Full pairings here. The last round starts at 11:00 local time, closing ceremony is at 19:00.
All results WJCC Open / Standings Open
In the Girls section WFM Medina Warda Aulia of Indonesia stunned the defending champion and R11 leader WGM Deysi Cori with black pieces, helping the Chinese WGM Guo Qi emerge on top position by defeating WGM Jovana Vojinovic.
WGM Guo Qi
Meanwhile, Belarus champion WGM Nastassia Ziaziulkina and top-seeded IM Anastasia Bodnaruk (Russia) drew their games, and norm-winner Irina Bulmaga (Romania) scored against the talented Julija Osmak (Ukraine) to all join Cori and Medina Warda on the shared 2nd place.
It will be an extremely exciting last round with the top pairings as: WGM Guo Qi – WIM Abdulla Khayala, WFM Medina Warda Aulia – WIM Bulmaga Irina, Ibrahimova Sabina – IM Bodnaruk Anastasia, WGM Cori T Deysi – Wang Jue, WGM Ziaziulkina Nastassia – WFM Kulon Klaudia and WIM Varga Klara – WIM Arabidze Meri.
All results WJCC Girls / Standings Girls
Photos by Andreas Kontokanis
(see full photo gallery here)
Reports: Round 1 / Round 2 / Round 3 / Round 4 / Round 5 / Round 6 / Round 7 / Round 8 / Round 9 / Round 10 / Round 11
| World Junior Chess Championship 2012 | |||||||||
| Boys (Open) Under 20 | |||||||||
| Round 13 on 2012/08/15 at 11:00 | |||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | Pts | Res. | Pts | Name | Rtg | ||
| 1 | GM | Ding Liren | 2695 | 9 | 9½ | GM | Rapport Richard | 2605 | |
| 2 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | 2577 | 9½ | 8 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | 2596 | |
| 3 | GM | Zherebukh Yaroslav | 2629 | 8 | 9 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | 2567 | |
| 4 | GM | Grandelius Nils | 2562 | 8½ | 8½ | FM | Wei Yi | 2418 | |
| 5 | GM | Van Kampen Robin | 2565 | 8 | 8½ | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2635 | |
| 6 | GM | Cori Jorge | 2487 | 8 | 8 | GM | Huschenbeth Niclas | 2532 | |
| 7 | IM | Indjic Aleksandar | 2481 | 8 | 8 | IM | Grover Sahaj | 2516 | |
| 8 | IM | Heimann Andreas | 2493 | 8 | 8 | IM | Hansen Eric | 2472 | |
| 9 | FM | Schreiner Peter | 2444 | 7½ | 7½ | GM | Salem A R Saleh | 2546 | |
| 10 | IM | Yilmaz Mustafa | 2543 | 7½ | 7½ | IM | Kanarek Marcel | 2487 | |
| 11 | Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu | 2342 | 7½ | 7½ | IM | Holt Conrad | 2498 | ||
| 12 | IM | Oparin Grigoriy | 2488 | 7½ | 7½ | IM | Andersen Mads | 2464 | |
| 13 | IM | Grigoryan Karen H | 2529 | 7 | 7½ | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al | 2462 | |
| 14 | IM | Shyam Sundar M | 2486 | 7 | 7 | IM | Zhou Yang-Fan | 2430 | |
| 15 | FM | Codenotti Marco | 2314 | 7 | 7 | IM | Kovalev Vladislav | 2485 | |
| 16 | IM | Shyam Nikil P | 2484 | 7 | 7 | FM | Hambleton Aman | 2244 | |
| 17 | IM | Urkedal Frode | 2473 | 7 | 7 | Galopoulos Nikolaos | 2402 | ||
| 18 | GM | Baron Tal | 2451 | 7 | 7 | FM | Kilpatrick Callum | 2326 | |
| 19 | IM | Baghdasaryan Vahe | 2368 | 7 | 7 | IM | Bajarani Ulvi | 2446 | |
| 20 | Arvola Benjamin | 2300 | 7 | 7 | IM | Gao Rui | 2442 | ||
| 21 | IM | Bluebaum Matthias | 2424 | 7 | 7 | FM | Ghosh Diptayan | 2417 | |
| 22 | CM | Farid Firman Syah | 2318 | 6½ | 6½ | IM | Rombaldoni Axel | 2494 | |
| 23 | IM | Pavlidis Antonios | 2466 | 6½ | 6½ | FM | Kigel Dmytro | 2276 | |
| 24 | FM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr | 2240 | 6½ | 6½ | IM | Mihok Oliver | 2456 | |
| 25 | IM | Debashis Das | 2446 | 6½ | 6½ | FM | Hernandez Sanchez Jairo Andres | 2288 | |
| 26 | Sodikov Ilyas | 2234 | 6½ | 6½ | IM | Barbosa Evandro Amorim | 2436 | ||
| 27 | Lapidus Mark | 2129 | 6½ | 6½ | IM | Firat Burak | 2423 | ||
| 28 | FM | Soors Stef | 2364 | 6½ | 6½ | Arat Ufuk Sezen | 2124 | ||
| 29 | Potpara Nikola | 2201 | 6½ | 6½ | FM | Gemy Jose Daniel | 2345 | ||
| 30 | IM | Valsecchi Alessio | 2427 | 6 | 6 | FM | Grandadam Nicolas | 2333 | |
| 31 | IM | Dimitrov Radoslav | 2424 | 6 | 6 | FM | Nuri Kambez | 2274 | |
| 32 | IM | Mazur Stefan | 2394 | 6 | 6 | Podolsky Anton | 2246 | ||
| 33 | FM | Thavandiran Shiyam | 2301 | 6 | 6 | IM | Anwesh Upadhyaya | 2374 | |
| 34 | Gantar Jan | 2218 | 6 | 6 | FM | Velten Paul | 2366 | ||
| 35 | FM | Griffiths Ryan Rhys | 2362 | 6 | 6 | Vaicekauskas Gytis | 2079 | ||
| 36 | Ladva Ottomar | 2153 | 6 | 6 | FM | Aggelis Nikolaos | 2352 | ||
| 37 | Sreeves Clement | 2191 | 6 | 6 | FM | Malikentzos Sotirios | 2337 | ||
| 38 | Minko Vladimir | 2257 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Krysa Leandro | 2438 | ||
| 39 | Aghayev Miragha | 2187 | 5½ | 5½ | FM | De Filomeno Simone | 2358 | ||
| 40 | FM | Jacko Vladimir | 2349 | 5½ | 5½ | Torkkola Henri | 2123 | ||
| 41 | Nadirashvili Shalva | 2151 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Wageih Kareim | 2332 | ||
| 42 | Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis | 2109 | 5½ | 5½ | Ivekovic Zvonimir | 2320 | |||
| 43 | IM | Brown Andrew | 2296 | 5½ | 5½ | Nishant Malhotra | 2076 | ||
| 44 | Torres Juan Camilo | 2291 | 5½ | 5½ | Zeppos Panagiotis | 1978 | |||
| 45 | Naoum Spyridon | 2146 | 5½ | 5 | FM | Kleinman Michael | 2330 | ||
| 46 | FM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | 2398 | 5 | 5 | Larmuseau Michiel | 2154 | ||
| 47 | Papasimakopoulos Alexandros | 2126 | 5 | 5 | Dounis Alexandros | 2298 | |||
| 48 | FM | Leiva Giuseppe | 2283 | 5 | 5 | Koutoukidis Panagiotis | 2167 | ||
| 49 | Haarr Jon Kristian | 2245 | 5 | 5 | Ashiku Franc | 2152 | |||
| 50 | Larmuseau Maarten | 2245 | 5 | 5 | CM | Muhammad Luthfi Ali | 2078 | ||
| 51 | Stathopoulos Ioannis | 2216 | 5 | 5 | Carbone Diego | 2069 | |||
| 52 | Vandevenne Sander | 2083 | 5 | 5 | Vasques Antonio Pedro Freixial | 2214 | |||
| 53 | Michelakos Panagiotis | 2185 | 4½ | 4½ | Du Plessis Heinco | 2075 | |||
| 54 | Edwards Jonathan | 2170 | 4½ | 4½ | Zwakala Ntando | 2054 | |||
| 55 | Liodakis Konstantinos-Spyros | 2130 | 4½ | 4½ | Poulopoulos Ioannis | 2007 | |||
| 56 | Haria Ravi | 2054 | 4½ | 4½ | Yurtseven Melih | 2126 | |||
| 57 | Kvaratskhelia Dimitri | 2093 | 4½ | 4½ | Stepanyan Henrik | 2022 | |||
| 58 | Kalogridakis Georgios | 2017 | 4½ | 4 | Capone Nicola | 2120 | |||
| 59 | Jefic Srdjan | 2165 | 4 | 4 | Jones William E G | 2127 | |||
| 60 | Tsiros Fragkiskos Vlasios | 1897 | 4 | 4 | Zulfic Fedja | 2135 | |||
| 61 | Caetano Hugo Zanotti Mendonca | 2109 | 4 | 3½ | Wu Kevin | 1905 | |||
| 62 | Cajahuanca Ramirez Olindo | 1856 | 3½ | 3½ | Kalofonos Panayotis | 1806 | |||
| 63 | Davis Ashley J | 1929 | 3 | 3½ | Alexiadis Hristos | 1769 | |||
| 64 | Papasimakopoulos Vasilios | 1820 | 3½ | 2 | Panagos Theodoros | 1768 | |||
| Zervos Lazaros | 1799 | 3 | Bye | 0 | |||||
| World Junior Chess Championship 2012 | |||||||||
| Girls Under 20 | |||||||||
| Round 13 on 2012/08/15 at 11:00 | |||||||||
| Bo. | Name | Rtg | Pts | Res. | Pts | Name | Rtg | ||
| 1 | WGM | Guo Qi | 2358 | 9 | 8 | WIM | Abdulla Khayala | 2217 | |
| 2 | WFM | Medina Warda Aulia | 2218 | 8½ | 8½ | WIM | Bulmaga Irina | 2380 | |
| 3 | Ibrahimova Sabina | 2091 | 7½ | 8½ | IM | Bodnaruk Anastasia | 2414 | ||
| 4 | WGM | Cori T Deysi | 2413 | 8½ | 7½ | Wang Jue | 2355 | ||
| 5 | WGM | Ziaziulkina Nastassia | 2342 | 8½ | 7½ | WFM | Kulon Klaudia | 2259 | |
| 6 | WIM | Varga Klara | 2181 | 7½ | 8 | WIM | Arabidze Meri | 2379 | |
| 7 | WGM | Vojinovic Jovana | 2337 | 7½ | 7½ | WIM | Sihite Chelsie Monica | 2162 | |
| 8 | WGM | Kashlinskaya Alina | 2391 | 7 | 7 | WFM | Osmak Iulija | 2171 | |
| 9 | WGM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2361 | 7 | 7 | WGM | Mona Khaled | 2121 | |
| 10 | WIM | Schut Lisa | 2305 | 7 | 7 | WIM | Kulkarni Bhakti | 2159 | |
| 11 | WIM | Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea | 2196 | 7 | 7 | WIM | Abdumalik Zhansaya | 2193 | |
| 12 | Klek Hanna-Marie | 2248 | 6½ | 6½ | WFM | De Seroux Camille | 2101 | ||
| 13 | WCM | Orozco Lina Yomayra | 2150 | 6½ | 6½ | Manelidou Maria | 2056 | ||
| 14 | WIM | Semenova Elena | 2134 | 6½ | 6½ | WCM | Narva Triin | 2028 | |
| 15 | Unapkoshvili Nani | 2011 | 6½ | 6½ | WFM | Ivana Maria Furtado | 2102 | ||
| 16 | WIM | Pavlidou Ekaterini | 2237 | 6 | 6 | Iordanidou Zoi | 2166 | ||
| 17 | Anusca Madalina-Maria | 2079 | 6 | 6 | WFM | Petrova Irina | 2173 | ||
| 18 | Bucar Natasa | 2022 | 5½ | 5½ | WIM | Pon Nkrithika | 2119 | ||
| 19 | Batkovskyte Dominyka | 2096 | 5½ | 5½ | Serefidou Despina | 1865 | |||
| 20 | Nonkovic Bogdana | 1950 | 5½ | 5½ | Galunova Tsveta | 2091 | |||
| 21 | Ivekovic Ana | 1959 | 5½ | 5½ | Edes Zsofia | 2081 | |||
| 22 | Dominguez Gisella | 1831 | 5½ | 5½ | WFM | Kolaric Spela | 2071 | ||
| 23 | Nevioselaya Maria | 2057 | 5½ | 5½ | WFM | Liao Simone | 1933 | ||
| 24 | WCM | Cemhan Kardelen | 1938 | 5½ | 5½ | Sargsyan Shushanna | 2047 | ||
| 25 | WFM | Frey Alisa | 2035 | 5½ | 5½ | Kalaydina Regina Veronicka | 1928 | ||
| 26 | Lolici Iselin-Amanda | 1967 | 4½ | 5 | Lefevre Margaux | 2043 | |||
| 27 | Sena Moura Danielle | 1876 | 4½ | 4½ | Imeeva Aisa | 2095 | |||
| 28 | Koutsogiannopoulou Theodora | 1897 | 4½ | 4½ | Chiarion Elisa | 1978 | |||
| 29 | Medeiros Thauane Ferreira | 1855 | 4½ | 4½ | Terzidaki Alexandra | 1958 | |||
| 30 | Forsa Elise | 1836 | 4½ | 4½ | Vatkali Dimitra | 1936 | |||
| 31 | York-Andersen Anna | 1828 | 4½ | 4 | Tuzi Bruna | 1546 | |||
| 32 | Messam-Sparks Lateefah | 1947 | 4 | 1 | Psofimi Milia | 1437 | |||
| Owens Megan R | 1816 | 4½ | Bye | 0 | |||||
