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Daniel Slips; Sarah Leads |
By Jennifer Shahade | |
November 25, 2007 | |
Daniel now has 6.5/8, and is still in medal contention with three rounds to go. The following game seriously damaged his chances for gold though. Bajarani dominated the game on the dark squares, and played accurately enough to give Daniel few chances to get back in the game. 1392 Meanwhile, Sarah Chiang continues her excellent play in the Girls Under 10. Here she won pretty easily after winning the c5 pawn on move eight. 1393 Tomorrow Sarah plays on board one against Anastasya Paramzina from Russia. Good luck to Sarah! World Youth (November 18-28, Antalya, Turkey) U.S. Team member scores after 8 rounds Girls U18 Ettie Nikolova 5 Elina Kats 3.5 Julia Kerr 3.5 Girls U16 WFM Alisa Melekhina 4.5 Abby Marshall 5 Courtney Jamison 4 Louiza Livschitz 4.5 Girls U14 Dai Yang 4.5 Jennie Liu 3 Gayatri Vempati 4 Girls U12 Alena Kuzniatsova 5 Anna Matlin 4.5 Girls U10 Sarah Chiang 7 Ellen Xiang 4.5 Girls U8 Evan Xiang 5.5 Simone Liao 6 Boys U18 FM Elliot Liu 4.5 Boys U16 Marc Tyler Arnold 5.5 Warren Harper 4.5 Samuel Shankland 4.5 Boys U14 FM Ray Robson 6.5 Victor Shen 4 Alec Getz 5 Michael Yee 5 Christian Tanaka 5 Boys Under 12 Daniel Naroditsky 6.5 FM Darwin Yang 5 Christopher Heung 4 Boys Under 10 Brian Luo 6 Varun Krishnan 5 Jarod Pamatmat 4.5 Boys Under 8 Jonathan Chiang 6 Dachey Lin 6 |
In the eighth round of the World Youth (Antalya, Turkey, Nov.18-28), the U.S. team scored 21.5/33.
Unfortunately, our highest scorer up to this point, Daniel Naroditsky lost his first
game of the event against FM Ulvi Bajarani from
Azerbaijan. Brian Luo in the Boys Under 10 also lost on board two. On the bright side, Sarah Chiang is in first place
in the Girls Under 10 with 7/8. Ray Robson also broke his streak of three draws with a win, putting him on 6.5/8.