10/28/2019 – Wrapping up our coverage of the World Junior Championship, we bring you all the pictures from the closing ceremony as well as photos of the 17 norm makers. Reporting from one last time are the intrepid team of Sagar Shah and Amruta Mokal. | Pictured: Volodar Murzin and Praggnanandhaa — future world title contenders? | Photo: Amruta Mokal
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Closing Ceremony
India and the All India Chess Federation can be proud of the fact that two of the most important events in the world of chess — World Youth Championships and the World Juniors were held back to back in the country and were successfully conducted. It just goes to show that India is trying to become a super power in chess not just in terms of players, but also in terms of organizing bigger events. These two tournaments coming to the country gave so many young talents of India a chance to cross their swords against the best in the world, something they wouldn't have been able to do had the event been held somewhere else.
The closing ceremony of the World Junior Championships 2019 was attended by the Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur | Photo: Amruta Mokal
The Secretary of All India Chess Federation Bharat Singh Chauhan | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Tournament Director A K Verma congratules the Chief Arbiter Hamid Majid on a job well done as FIDE delegate Mikhail Kobalia looks on | Photo: Niklesh Jain
Podium finishers in girls: Polina Shuvalova (Gold), Mobina Alinasab (Silver) and Elizaveta Solzhenkina (Bronze) | Photo: Niklesh Jain
4th: Mariia Berdnyk, who also scored her WIM-norm and 5th: Aakanksha Hagawane | Photo: Amruta Mokal
The highest Indian finisher - Aakanksha Hagawane
6th: Song Yuxin and 7th: Li Yunshan | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Eighth and ninth placed Stavroula Tsolakidou and Bibisara Assaubayeva respectively could not attend the closing ceremony.
10th: Dinara Dordzhieva | Photo: Amruta Mokal
The podium finishers: Evgeny Shtembuliak (Gold), Shant Sargsyan (Silver) and Aram Hakobyan (Bronze) | Photo: Niklesh Jain
A last round loss pushed Miguel Santos Ruiz to the fourth spot while untitled Wang Shixu was the surprise of the event, scored his maiden GM-norm and also finished sixth | Photo: Amruta Mokal
The future of Indian chess (L to R) - Karthikeyan Murali (fifth), Praggnanandhaa (ninth) and Aravindh Chithambaram (right) | Photo: Amruta Mokal
IM Mihnea Costachi showed excellent chess and capped off the event with a win over IM Arjun Kalyan | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Polina Shuvalova with her tainer GM Sergey Zagrebelny who helped win two Gold medal within two weeks | Photo: Sagar Shah
Shadi Paridar played a key role in Mobina Alinasab winning the Silver | Photo: Sagar Shah
The Armenians who made their country proud of them | Photo: Amruta Mokal
The Norm Makers
World Junior championships proved to be an excellent event to score norms for the youngsters. As many as 17 norms were scored — two GM-norms, four IM-norms, a WGM-norm and ten WIM-norms.
GM norms
Two of the best performers of the event: Wang Shixu and Volodar Murzin | Photo: Amruta Mokal
IM norms
Left: Aronyak Ghosh not only scored his final IM-norm but also became India's latest International Master | Right: Audi Ameya scored his second IM-norm at the event | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Garidmagnai Byambasuren lost his last two rounds, but before that he had already scored his IM norm! | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Aaryan Varshney scored his second IM-norm with a round to spare
WGM norms
Polina Shuvalova did score her WGM norm, but by the virtue of becoming the champion of the event, she won the WGM title directly.
WIM norms
Gabriela Antova (left) lost the last round to Aakanksha Hagawane, but she did make a WIM norm; Altantuya Boldbaatar (right) was playing at the top boards at the start but subsequently slid down, yet made a WIM-norm | Photo: Amruta Mokal
WIM norm for Mariam Avetisyan of Armenia | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Srishti Pandey scored her maiden WIM-norm | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Already very strong Mariia Berdnyk (left) scored her WIM norm; Toshali V (right) beat the top seed and she got a WIM-norm for her performance | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Supreethat Potluri (left) scored a WIM-norm, five years after gaining 200+ Elo rating points at the same event; Michelle Katkov (right) of Poland scored her WIM norm | Photo: Amruta Mokal
Lakshmi C (left) scored her first WIM-norm | Photo: Amruta Mokal Elene Tsotsonava made her WIM-norm at the event | Photo: Facebook page of Elene
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