World Youth Chess Championships

[ruairidhmckay]

Dear all,

The World Youth Chess Championships are starting now in Halkidiki, Greece until the 31st of October. Scotland has 2 representatives:

1) U16 Open - Sambhav Chadha

2) U14 Open - Jake Sanger

Good luck to both of you! 

Ruairidh

[ruairidhmckay]

Just to mention that both Jake and Sambhav have got off to great starts in Greece this weekend.

Jake drew with the FM Konstantin Popov rated 2304 in Round 1. He then beat the Israeli Revivo Cohen rated 2289 in Round 2. Sitting on 1.5 out of 3 going into Round 4 tomorrow morning.

Sambhav had a great result this morning in Round 2 drawing with the Spaniard Luis Rodriguez-Izquierdo rated 2038.

Both our lads are currently sitting on performance ratings 300-400 higher than their FIDE rating.