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Chess Life Online 2007 November World Youth Round 3 Update
Chess Life Online 2007 November World Youth Round 3 Update | World Youth Round 3 Update |
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| By Jennifer Shahade | |
| November 20, 2007 | |
Ray Robson. Photo Dujiu Yang.
Girls U18 Ettie Nikolova 1.5 Elina Kats 1 Julia Kerr 1 Girls U16 WFM Alisa Melekhina 2 Abby Marshall 2.5 Courtney Jamison 2 Louiza Livschitz 2 Girls U14 Dai Yang 2.5 Jennie Liu 0.5 Gayatri Vempati 1 Girls U12 Alena Kuzniatsova 2 Anna Matlin 2 Girls U10 Sarah Chiang 3 Ellen Xiang 2 Girls U8 Evan Xiang 1.5 Simone Liao 3 Boys U18 FM Elliot Liu 2 Boys U16 Marc Tyler Arnold 2 Warren Harper 1 Samuel Shankland 2.5 Boys U14 FM Ray Robson 3 Victor Shen 2 Alec Getz 2 Michael Yee 2.5 Christian Tanaka 1.5 Boys Under 12 Daniel Naroditsky 3 FM Darwin Yang 2 Christopher Heung 2 Boys Under 10 Brian Luo 2 Varun Krishnan 1 Jarod Pamatmat 2 Boys Under 8 Jonathan Chiang 2.5 Dachey Lin 3 Abby Marshall (who will be writing another blog soon,) swindled her Indian opponent to earn a draw. She now has 2.5/3. 1360 It looked like Abby's game was close to resignable for many moves. Her opponent did have a lot of ways to win, but the most obvious mistake was in the following position: 
Position after 55...Kg2
Here White should simply go after the e-pawn with the king, so that when Abby takes the g-pawn and starts to push her h-pawn, White can simply sacrifice the knight when the pawn gets to h3. Instead White played Nf7? here, allowing Kxh2 Nxe5 Kxg3, when the pawns end up queening at the same time. Simone Liao continued her winning ways in the Under 8 against a Turkish girl. 1361 
Alec Getz by the Mediterranean Sea. Photo Deren Getz
We close this report with a position from Alec Getz, who is pictured above: 
Position after 30...a6
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