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Chess Life Online 2007 Daniel Wins Gold; Sarah Takes Silver
Chess Life Online 2007 Daniel Wins Gold; Sarah Takes Silver | Daniel Wins Gold; Sarah Takes Silver |
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| By Jennifer Shahade | |
| November 28, 2007 | |
Daniel Naroditsky accepts his 1st place trophy and medal. Photo Dujiu Yang.
Daniel's final game was a quick two-hour victory in which his opponent miscalculated while Daniel kept his cool: 1408 In a funny twist, Sarah ended in second place , exactly where she would have placed had she won her final game, because her tiebreaks were weaker than the gold medalist, Anna Styazhkina. In her final round game, her Chinese opponent took excellent advantage of Sarah's misunderstanding of the best piece placement in the Nf6 variation of the c3 Sicilian. 1407 By the time White had mounted a brutal attack, it was too late for Sarah to change the position of her queen's knight from c6 to d7, where it belonged. From d7 the knight can hop to f6 and gracefully defend attacks against h7. Check back on Chess Life Online for more details, photos and a final blog from Abby Marshall. Also be sure to watch out for the February Chess Life, in which FM Aviv Friedman will report on the tournament. 
Sarah Chiang with her silver medal and 2nd place trophy. Photo Dujiu Yang.
World Youth (November 18-28, Antalya, Turkey) U.S. Team member scores after 11 rounds- Final scores Girls U18 Ettie Nikolova 6 Elina Kats 4.5 Julia Kerr 4.5 Girls U16 WFM Alisa Melekhina 7.5 Abby Marshall 6.5 Courtney Jamison 5.5 Louiza Livschitz 5.5 Girls U14 Dai Yang 7.5 Jennie Liu 5 Gayatri Vempati 5 Girls U12 Alena Kuzniatsova 5.5 Anna Matlin 6.5 Girls U10 Sarah Chiang 8.5 Ellen Xiang 6 Girls U8 Evan Xiang 6.5 Simone Liao 8 Boys U18 FM Elliot Liu 5.5 Boys U16 Marc Tyler Arnold 6 Warren Harper 6 Samuel Shankland 6 Boys U14 FM Ray Robson 8 Victor Shen 7 Alec Getz 6 Michael Yee 5 Christian Tanaka 7 Boys Under 12 Daniel Naroditsky 9.5 FM Darwin Yang 6 Christopher Heung 6.5 Boys Under 10 Brian Luo 8 Varun Krishnan 6.5 Jarod Pamatmat 6 Boys Under 8 Jonathan Chiang 8 Dachey Lin 7 |