World Youth Chess Championship 2012 in Maribor, Slovenia
The World Youth Chess Championship 2012 in Maribor, Slovenia, is starting in just a few days, and we continue the preview of the strongest participants of the competition. After a comprehensive look at the U18 sections, today we will take a look at the U16 young stars.
WYCC 2012, U16 boys
The top participant in the U16 section according to the October FIDE rating list is IM Urii Eliseev. He has an ELO rating of 2486 and is on the brink of crossing the 2500 barrier, as he is gaining rating in the currently ongoing Chigorin Memorial.
With ELO 2456 as second seeded in the WYCC 2012 U16 section is IM Dennis Wagner. For 21 consecutive rating lists, starting September 2009, the ELO of the young talent is constantly rising. It all started with the U14 young talent tournaments, part of Mainz Chess Classics and Ordix Open in 2008, and later continued with strong performances at international opens.
With just one ELO point less than Dennis Wagner, currently at 2455, third seeded is IM Maksim Chigaev. He has been very active in the past months, entering in the top 20 of the strong Nezhmetdinov trophy and battling well in the Chigorin Rapid.
The list of players U16 above 2400 is completed by IM Kirill Alekseenko, IM Matthias Bluebaum, Tomas Laurusas, and FM Nima Javanbakht.
WYCC 2012, U16 girls
In the U16 girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship 2012 the clear top seeded is WIM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh. The young star of Iran, born in 1997, has already shown fantastic results this year and is the only player in the section above 2300 ELO. Back in 2009 the young star amazed the world with silver medal at a national championship, the same year she had also won the gold medal from the Asian Youth Championship. WIM Khademalsharieh impressed on several occassions this year, most notably with the performance at the 10th Khazar Cup International Open Chess Tournament, where she defeated GM Morteza Mahjoob, GM Sarhan Guliev, drew with IM Davit Benidze, IM Luka Paichadze, and GM Valeriane Gaprindashvili, and finished in the top half of the table with 35 ELO points gained.
The closest opponent by rating to WIM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh is the big hope of Kazakkstan, WIM Dinara Saduakassova. She comes in great form, as in the Istanbul Chess Olympiad she scored 7,0/9 and was awarded the Women Grandmaster title (soon to be validated). Dinara Saduakassova is already a world champion U14, she won her first title in WYCC 2010. Moreover, she is a triple world and Asian Vice-Champion. Now certainly she comes for another medal in Maribor World Youth Chess Championship.
Four more players U16 are above 2200 ELO in the October FIDE rating list. The most famous of them is WIM Paula Andrea Rodriguez Rueda, who is Panamerican U20 champion and finished in top 15 of this year’s World Junior Chess Championship. The other names in the list are the untitled Chinese Lei Tingjie, the untitled Ukranian Maria Tantsiura, and WFM Filiz Osmanodja.
Here are the full lists of participants in the U16 World Youth Chess Championship in Maribor, Slovenia.
World Youth Chess 2012, U16 boys
| IM | Eliseev Urii | RUS | 2486 |
| IM | Wagner Dennis | GER | 2456 |
| IM | Chigaev Maksim | RUS | 2455 |
| FM | Alekseenko Kirill | RUS | 2434 |
| IM | Bluebaum Matthias | GER | 2433 |
| Laurusas Tomas | LTU | 2425 | |
| FM | Javanbakht Nima | IRI | 2416 |
| Svane Rasmus | GER | 2394 | |
| Giroyan Gary | FRA | 2382 | |
| FM | Girish A. Koushik | IND | 2367 |
| FM | Bortnyk Olexandr | UKR | 2361 |
| Akhmetov Ayan | KAZ | 2356 | |
| FM | Ynojosa Felix Jose | VEN | 2356 |
| FM | Ebeling Daniel | FIN | 2350 |
| FM | Georgiadis Nico | SUI | 2349 |
| FM | Harutyunian Tigran K. | ARM | 2334 |
| Narayanan S.L | IND | 2330 | |
| FM | Sanzhaev Darsen | RUS | 2319 |
| Lkhagvasuren Tsedvee | MGL | 2302 | |
| Studer Noel | SUI | 2301 | |
| Lampert Jonas | GER | 2299 | |
| Petrov Nikita | RUS | 2296 | |
| Fang Yan | CHN | 2289 | |
| Amstadt Aron | HUN | 2273 | |
| FM | Beukema Stefan | BEL | 2271 |
| Brown Michael William | USA | 2270 | |
| FM | Kowsarinia Amir | IRI | 2262 |
| Nasuta Grzegorz | POL | 2256 | |
| Vibbert Sean | USA | 2255 | |
| Lokander Martin | SWE | 2250 | |
| FM | Artemenko Oleg | UZB | 2235 |
| FM | Tran Tuan Minh | VIE | 2235 |
| Kvetny Mark | GER | 2234 | |
| FM | Principe Alexander | PER | 2233 |
| Reshef Omer | ISR | 2228 | |
| FM | Cuellar Diego | PER | 2227 |
| Ladva Ottomar | EST | 2224 | |
| Carow Johannes | GER | 2223 | |
| Samdanov Samdan | RUS | 2221 | |
| Marjanovic Dejan | BIH | 2219 | |
| FM | Le Tuan Minh | VIE | 2204 |
| Tomici Stefan | ROU | 2200 | |
| Olund Joar | SWE | 2169 | |
| CM | Koksal Ege | TUR | 2168 |
| Radovanovic Nikola | SRB | 2164 | |
| Cukrowski Filip | POL | 2161 | |
| Akash Pc Iyer | IND | 2159 | |
| Papasimakopoulos Alexandros | GRE | 2156 | |
| Liu Yi | AUS | 2152 | |
| Nuri Murad | AZE | 2145 | |
| Batchelor Peter J | ENG | 2138 | |
| Kaczmarek Aleksander | POL | 2135 | |
| Neef Maximilian | GER | 2132 | |
| Dolnak Michal | SVK | 2115 | |
| Monjac Mislav | CRO | 2109 | |
| Daskalov Dimitar | BUL | 2106 | |
| Mikes Jan | CZE | 2102 | |
| Semianiuk Konstantin | CAN | 2102 | |
| FM | Chiari Arthur Gontijo | BRA | 2098 |
| FM | Wagdy Andro | EGY | 2096 |
| Kumsiashvili Nikoloz | GEO | 2094 | |
| Bosnjak Petar | CRO | 2086 | |
| Marutkins Olegs | LAT | 2081 | |
| Lee Kah Meng Elgin Elgin | MAS | 2078 | |
| Foo William J | ENG | 2072 | |
| Salomon Johan | NOR | 2062 | |
| Itkin David | CAN | 2058 | |
| Krsnik Cohar Ivan Vihor | CRO | 2048 | |
| Markoja Sebastijan | SLO | 2048 | |
| Yezhel Valiantsin | BLR | 2047 | |
| Javidfard Amirsalar | IRI | 2043 | |
| Vicente Joao Vasco Reis | POR | 2042 | |
| Lekic Lazar | MNE | 2037 | |
| Gregori Giacomo | ITA | 2034 | |
| Sokac Marko | CRO | 2031 | |
| Zhahbai Uulu Zhohar | KGZ | 2029 | |
| Serikbay Chingiz | KAZ | 2028 | |
| Jacobsen Mads-Holger | DEN | 2019 | |
| Ajeet Singh Roshan | MAS | 2016 | |
| Florea Alexandru | CAN | 2013 | |
| Vos Tjark | AHO | 2003 | |
| Kjoita Henning | NOR | 1992 | |
| Benidze Gigla | GEO | 1986 | |
| Hackner Oskar A | ENG | 1985 | |
| CM | Yuksel Atilla Koksal | TUR | 1984 |
| Amrayeva Aytan | AZE | 1977 | |
| Bezuidenhout Roland | RSA | 1974 | |
| Khorsandi Arian | IRI | 1972 | |
| De Abreu Roberto N | RSA | 1969 | |
| CM | Gonzalez Olivieri Orlando | PUR | 1969 |
| Urbanc Peter | SLO | 1962 | |
| FM | Chahrour Ibrahim | LIB | 1959 |
| Fiora Emilio | ARG | 1954 | |
| Abe Mahiro | JPN | 1946 | |
| Darling Simeon C. | RSA | 1931 | |
| Bratkovic Sham | SLO | 1930 | |
| Ersoz Bartu | TUR | 1929 | |
| Madrigal Perez Rodrigo | MEX | 1924 | |
| Brazdzionis Andrius | LTU | 1922 | |
| Liu Dennis | FIN | 1915 | |
| Zhang Roy Yinian | ENG | 1901 | |
| Kjoita Torgeir | NOR | 1898 | |
| Vesce Emanuele | ITA | 1896 | |
| Djuricic Domen | SLO | 1884 | |
| Murchadha Oissine | IRL | 1875 | |
| Pon Matt | RSA | 1860 | |
| Thorpe Thomas | WLS | 1858 | |
| Sultan Ibrahim | UAE | 1843 | |
| Verhasselt Karsten | BEL | 1837 | |
| Aartun Eivind | NOR | 1828 | |
| Gjeorgjievski Done | MKD | 1827 | |
| Bombek Miha | SLO | 1791 | |
| Opara Jan | SLO | 1780 | |
| Shiau Suen-Wen | TPE | 1772 | |
| Mikolic Martin | SLO | 1771 | |
| Saraci Nderim | TUR | 1760 | |
| Houimel Omar | TUN | 1754 | |
| Pricopie Stefan | ROU | 1630 | |
| Deary Daniel | SCO | 1602 | |
| Zagorsek David | SLO | 1594 | |
| Park Hyukmin | KOR | 1541 | |
| Krcmar Aleksander | SLO | 1461 | |
| Abdulla Nihad | SCO | 0 | |
| Gjonaj Jurgen | ALB | 0 | |
| Nikl-Hutinski Emanuel | SLO | 0 | |
| Nuukulu Petrus | NAM | 0 | |
| Pesl Nejc | SLO | 0 | |
| Prado Erick | BOL | 0 | |
| Shpresmir Qorrolli | ECU | 0 | |
| Weru Peniel | KEN | 0 |
World Youth Chess 2012, U16 girls
| WIM | Khademalsharieh Sarasadat | IRI | 2302 |
| WIM | Saduakassova Dinara | KAZ | 2279 |
| Lei Tingjie | CHN | 2231 | |
| WIM | Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea | COL | 2220 |
| Tantsiura Maria | UKR | 2211 | |
| WFM | Osmanodja Filiz | GER | 2206 |
| WFM | Nicolas Zapata Irene | ESP | 2193 |
| Nandhidhaa Pv | IND | 2161 | |
| WFM | Bivol Alina | RUS | 2137 |
| WFM | Xiao Yiyi | CHN | 2136 |
| WFM | Navrotescu Andreea-Cristiana | FRA | 2133 |
| Belova Olga | RUS | 2130 | |
| WFM | Tereshechkina Maya | RUS | 2118 |
| WFM | Styazhkina Anna | RUS | 2113 |
| Michelle Catherina P | IND | 2109 | |
| WCM | Chiang Sarah | USA | 2099 |
| Blagojevic Tijana | MNE | 2090 | |
| Mukhit Aisezym | KAZ | 2072 | |
| Nevioselaya Maria | BLR | 2065 | |
| WFM | Visanescu Daria-Ioana | ROU | 2062 |
| Shamatava Ana | GEO | 2051 | |
| Kostitsina Liubov | RUS | 2044 | |
| Utiatskaja Irina | RUS | 2041 | |
| WCM | Cemhan Kardelen | TUR | 2037 |
| Movileanu Daniela | ITA | 2029 | |
| Dragieva Denitza | BUL | 2027 | |
| Bezkorovaina Mariia | UKR | 2025 | |
| Aseeva Anastasia | RUS | 2023 | |
| Ivanova Simoneta | BUL | 2016 | |
| Rodionova Polina | RUS | 2013 | |
| Akopova Anna | RUS | 2001 | |
| Goli Lasya | IND | 1982 | |
| Franca Veronika | SLO | 1979 | |
| Bellaiche Elise | FRA | 1976 | |
| Gaboyan Susanna | ARM | 1976 | |
| Oliveira Maria Ines | POR | 1969 | |
| Regam Jessica | USA | 1969 | |
| Assaubayeva Diana | KAZ | 1966 | |
| Hincu Olga | MDA | 1966 | |
| Hakimifard Raana | IRI | 1954 | |
| WFM | Paredes Bustamante Paula | PER | 1946 |
| Serefidou Despina | GRE | 1938 | |
| Zavgorodniaya Alena | RUS | 1938 | |
| Kalaydina Regina Veronicka | CAN | 1934 | |
| Tomin Ksenija | SRB | 1934 | |
| WCM | Azman Hisham Nur Nabila | MAS | 1926 |
| Aponte Oriana Isabel | VEN | 1913 | |
| Cosman Andreea-Marioara | ROU | 1912 | |
| Saikhanzaya Ganbaatar | MGL | 1904 | |
| Gu Tianlu | CHN | 1889 | |
| Koloditsova Renata | SVK | 1881 | |
| Beshukova Ekaterina | RUS | 1878 | |
| Hoare Amy B | ENG | 1871 | |
| Leonardi Caterina | SLO | 1868 | |
| Horvath Ilona Klara | HUN | 1846 | |
| Vlckova Katerina | CZE | 1846 | |
| Xiao Alice Huanyi | CAN | 1843 | |
| Skuhala Barbara | SLO | 1839 | |
| Hansen Erle Andrea Marki | NOR | 1833 | |
| Chetina Elizaveta | RUS | 1819 | |
| Ozturk Hilal | TUR | 1818 | |
| Gueci Laura | ITA | 1810 | |
| WFM | Nouman Amna | UAE | 1808 |
| Torres Rosas Rita Rosalia | MEX | 1807 | |
| Cazacu Gabriela | MDA | 1803 | |
| WCM | Jansen Van Rensburg Monica | RSA | 1803 |
| Sevachyan Marietta | ARM | 1803 | |
| Luzikova Nicola | CZE | 1796 | |
| Hiebler Laura | AUT | 1790 | |
| Janzelj Lara | SLO | 1775 | |
| Grgic Neomi | CRO | 1774 | |
| Chandrasiri S A K | SRI | 1771 | |
| Berger Nadja | GER | 1769 | |
| Bartsits Sabina | RUS | 1768 | |
| Poteat Lilia M | USA | 1766 | |
| + Dall`orsoletta Alaize | BRA | 1765 | |
| Machlik Edit | NOR | 1759 | |
| Head Louise | ENG | 1756 | |
| Burmistrova Alena | RUS | 1749 | |
| Kejzar Petra | SLO | 1740 | |
| Rodsmoen Maud | NOR | 1737 | |
| Santos Ines Lima | POR | 1734 | |
| Barbier Astrid | BEL | 1733 | |
| Machlik Monika | NOR | 1729 | |
| Giblon Rebecca | CAN | 1701 | |
| Gurcan Aytolun | TUR | 1698 | |
| Abeer Ali | UAE | 1696 | |
| Le Besq Emma | DEN | 1688 | |
| Suntharalingam Jarani | NOR | 1683 | |
| Bernik Alja | SLO | 1680 | |
| Urbanc Maja | SLO | 1663 | |
| Klepeckaite Radvile | LTU | 1635 | |
| Orlina Laura | LAT | 1618 | |
| Mendez Tovar Rosario Trin | MEX | 1608 | |
| Dobrovoljc Andreja | SLO | 1597 | |
| Amra Tasnim | RSA | 1574 | |
| Caka Olta | ALB | 1423 | |
| Aviles Shakira | PUR | 0 | |
| Fisher Michelle M | RSA | 0 | |
| Gachema Maryanne | KEN | 0 | |
| Lampman Becca | USA | 0 | |
| Mentile Lishen | NAM | 0 | |
| Molefe Tsholofelo | RSA | 0 | |
| Sukhbaatar Enkhjin | MGL | 0 | |
| Tomic Milanka | BIH | 0 | |
| Waweru Rebecca | KEN | 0 |
