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57 Players Qualify for 2010 World Youth Chess Championship Print E-mail
By Chuck Lovingood   
May 26, 2010
Contact: Chuck Lovingood
FIDE & Scholastic Associate, USCF
1-931-787-1234 ext.148 

(CROSSVILLE, TN) The United States Chess Federation is pleased to announce that the following players have qualified to participate in the 2010 World Youth Chess Championship. The top players by rating in each age category are considered the official representatives by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, but all players compete in the event as part of the US delegation.   

Players may qualify to represent the United States by being established as one of the three highest rated candidates by peak post-tournament rating in the previous 12 months ending with events included in the April Rating Supplement.  They may also qualify by being within 50 rating points or less from the third qualifying spot. A player may also qualify by personal right by achieving a medal at the World Youth in the previous year or by achieving a Gold Medal at the previous Pan American Youth Festival. Qualifying by personal right from the 2009 World Youth are Samritha Palakollu (Girls Under 10) and Tanuj Vasudeva (Boys Under 10). Both players earned Silver medals at last year's World Youth.   

Details on the event have not yet been released by the organizers.  Official letters of invitation will be sent to the qualifying players as soon as those details are available.  Players and their families should contact Chuck Lovingood, USCF FIDE & Scholastic Associate, for questions related to the tournament. 

Congratulations to all of these players who qualified for the 2010 World Youth!

GIRLS UNDER 18 

YANG DAI VA  2079
JENNIE LIU NJ  2031
KARSTEN MCVAY NJ  2026
ANJALI DATTA TX  1986 

GIRLS UNDER 16

ALENA KATS NY  2107
ANNA MATLIN NJ  2069
DARRIAN ROBINSON NY  2044

GIRLS UNDER 14
SARAH CHIANG TX  2128
MEGAN LEE WA  2021
CAROLINE ZHU  TX  1996
SYLVIA YANG TX  1964
EPIPHANY PETERS  MI 1948 
 
GIRLS UNDER 12

SIMONE LIAO CA  1938
KIMBERLY DING NJ  1880
ALICE DONG   NJ  1822
APURVA VIRKUD MI  1816
RACHEL GOLOGORSKY FL 1813
MARYIA ORESHKO NJ 1795
MARGARET HUA   MO 1782 

GIRLS UNDER 10
HANNAH LIU    TX  1709
DEVINA DEVAGHARAN   TX  1594
REVA SINGH    NY  1526
RACHEL ULRICH    IL 1519
NICOLE ZLOTCHEVSKY NY 1497
SAMRITHA PALAKOLLU NJ   1495   (PERSONAL RIGHT) 


GIRLS UNDER 8

ANNIE WANG    CA  1687
KAAVYA RAMESH TX  1590
EMILY NGUYEN TX  1418
JOANNA LIU TX 1410                       

BOYS UNDER 18
MARC ARNOLD    NY  2507
MICHAEL LEE    WA  2426
STEVEN ZIERK    CA  2423
CONRAD HOLT    KS  2405 

BOYS UNDER 16
RAY ROBSON    FL  2630
DANIEL NARODITSKY   CA  2434
PARKER ZHAO    NY  2395 


BOYS UNDER 14
DARWIN YANG    TX  2413
ALEKSANDR OSTROVSKIY  NY  2278
DAVID ADELBERG    AZ  2245
YIAN LIOU     CA  2243
JAROD PAMATMAT   TX  2236
ATULYA SHETTY   MI  2232
KEVIN WANG    MD  2211 


BOYS UNDER 12
KAYDEN TROFF    UT  2200
CHRISTOPHER WU    NJ  2192
JOSHUA COLAS  NY 2156
JUSTUS WILLIAMS    NY  2141
KAPIL CHANDRAN CT  2118
DACHEY LIN TX  2118 
 
BOYS UNDER 10
SAMUEL SEVIAN  CA   2160
TOMMY HE     TX  2141
JEFFERY XIONG  TX  2105
TANUJ VASUDEVA  CA  1924    (PERSONAL RIGHT) 

BOYS UNDER 8
ARAVIND KUMAR NJ    1814
AWONDER LIANG WI  1701
RAYAN TAGHIZADEH  CA  1696
PRAVEEN BALAKRISHNAN  NJ  1680

 
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