With a round to go, Ray Robson has 7.5/10 and is in medal contention in the Boys U12 section of the World Youth Championship (Batumi,Georgia October 19-28). In the final round tomorrow, he is on board two with Black against Nyzhnyk Illya from Ukraine. Our other twenty representatives are playing well, and most have plus scores or the chance to achieve them with last round wins.
Joel Banawa, playing in the Boys U18 is on a solid plus one, after a pair of consecutive wins in rounds 7 and 8. His stunning victory over David Yang(Canada) features an unusual and effective queen sacrifice.
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Alisa Melekhina has 6.5/10 in the Girls U16 section.
Atulya Shetty, coached by IM Ben Finegold, has 6/10 in the Boys U10.
Darwin Yang has 6/10 in the Boys U10.
Darrian Robinson has 4/10 in the Girls U12. You can read more about her in this New York Times article or our earlier Chess Life Online piece. Unfortunately, Medina Parilla did not attend as mentioned in both articles. Despite significant fundraising attempts on the part of the chessdrum, there was not quite enough funding for Medina's mom to attend.
| SNo |
| Name | FED | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pts. | Rk. | Rp |
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| 28 |
| Banawa Joel Cholo | USA | 2272 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 5,5 | 23 | 2238 | Boys U18 |
| 20 |
| Tanaka Christian T | USA | 2135 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 6,0 | 19 | 1941 | Boys U14 |
| 29 |
| Shen Victor C | USA | 2066 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 5,5 | 31 | 2038 | Boys U14 |
| 4 | FM | Robson Ray | USA | 2217 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | 7,5 | 5 | 2227 | Boys U12 |
| 23 |
| Naroditsky Daniel | USA | 2040 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6,0 | 21 | 1813 | Boys U12 |
| 68 |
| Liao Eric | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 4,0 | 77 | 1376 | Boys U10 |
| 81 |
| Shetty Atulya | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 6,0 | 22 | 1726 | Boys U10 |
| 93 |
| Yang Darwin | USA | 0 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6,0 | 27 | 1570 | Boys U10 |
| 95 |
| Zhang Eric | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 6,5 | 14 | 1641 | Boys U10 |
| 58 |
| Nip Nicholas | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 5,5 | 28 | 1483 | Boys U8 |
| 9 | WFM | Abrahamyan Tatev | USA | 2292 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5,0 | 20 | 2174 | Girls U18 |
| 13 | WFM | Melekhina Alisa | USA | 2088 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6,5 | 9 | 2020 | Girls U16 |
| 44 |
| Kuzniatsova Lena | USA | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 6,0 | 15 | 1884 | Girls U12 |
| 54 |
| Robinson Darrian | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 4,0 | 51 | 1602 | Girls U12 |
| 23 |
| Dai Eileen | USA | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 5,5 | 26 | 1436 | Girls U10 |
| 61 |
| Xiang Ellen | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5,5 | 20 | 1498 | Girls U10 |
| 62 |
| Yang Sylvia Siyuan | USA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | 5,5 | 21 | 1426 | Girls U10 |
| 64 |
| Zhurbinskiy Eve | USA | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6,0 | 14 | 1496 | Girls U10 |
| 22 |
| Lee Fei-Tzin | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5,0 | 23 | 1400 | Girls U8 |
| 45 |
| Xiang Evan | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5,5 | 18 | 1436 | Girls U8 |
| 47 |
| Zhu Jessica | USA | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5,0 | 25 | 1357 | Girls U8 |
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