IM Nguyen and WFM Serikbay win Asian Juniors 2019

by Shahid Ahmed
7/9/2019 – The weeklong Asian Junior Championship concluded in Solo, Indonesia on Monday, after Standard, Rapid and Blitz competitions. The new overall champion is IM Nguyen Anh Khoi from Vietnam, who scored an impressive 8.0/9. Among the girls, WFM Assel Serikbay of Kazakhstan came out on top with 7.0/9. | Photo: Mulyadi R
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An up-and-coming star from Vietnam

The Asian Junior Championships were held in Solo, Indonesia (also known as Surakarta) from July 2nd to the 8th to 2019. 34 players from 9 countries took part in the open section and 37 girls from 9 countries took part in the girls section. In the open, Karthik Venkatraman was the only GM in the fray, but Vietnamese IM Nguyen Anh Khoi was rating favourite with an Elo of 2516. In the girls section it was WIM Aakanksha Hagawane — the top seed with a 2246 rating.

The 16-year-old Nguyen lived up to his seeding in the open category with an emphatic 8.0/9, finishing a full point ahead of the runner-up IM Raghunandan K S of India. Nguyen also won Gold in Rapid format. Among the girls, WFM Assel Serikbay, despite suffering two consecutive losses in rounds five and six, bounced back strong and finished at 7.0/9 to clinch the Gold.

How did they do it? Let's have a look!

Surakarta (or Solo) is a city in the centre of the Indonesian island of Java

Standard

First up is the "Standard" Open section. Vietnam's budding talent IM Nguyen Anh Khoi delivered a performance of 2671 and gained an Elo Rating of 13 points.

Rd. Bo. SNo   Name Rtg FED Pts. Res.
1 1 18 FM Tobing Daniel Hermawan Lumban 2175 INA 5,0 s 1
2 1 10 FM Hafiz Arif Abdul 2272 INA 3,0 w 1
3 1 7 IM Miciano John Marvin 2355 PHI 6,0 s 1
4 1 8 IM Quizon Daniel 2336 PHI 6,0 w 1
5 1 4 IM Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 2441 IND 7,0 s 1
6 1 3   Gholami Orimi Mahdi 2444 IRI 5,5 w ½
7 1 12 FM Sagita Catur Adi 2240 INA 6,0 s 1
8 1 13   Morado Jeth Romy 2219 PHI 5,0 w 1
9 1 5 IM Rakesh Kumar Jena 2395 IND 5,5 s ½

Nguyen started out with five consecutive wins which gave him a full point lead over rest of the field. In the fifth round he defeated the eventual silver medal winner IM Raghunandan KS in a King's Indian Defence encounter.

Raghu had a balanced position, until he made the mistake of playing 28.♘e4:

 
Raghunandan vs Anh Khoi, Standard Round 5
Position after 28.Ne4?

Try to work out why it is a mistake, or you can play through the complete game below.

Bologan: "If you study this DVD carefully and solve the interactive exercises you will also enrich your chess vocabulary, your King's Indian vocabulary, build up confidence in the King's Indian and your chess and win more games."

 
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1.d4 0 Nf6 0 2.c4 0 g6 31 3.Nc3 0 Bg7 7 4.e4 0 d6 5 5.Be2 28 0-0 8 6.Nf3 11 Nbd7 8 7.0-0 19 e5 5 8.Be3 19 Re8 25 9.d5 38 Nh5 9 10.g3 48 Bf8 6 11.Ne1 66 Ng7 7 12.Nd3 15 f5 46 13.f3 99 Be7 23 14.Qd2 61 a5 207 15.Bd1 426 Nf6 525 16.c5 130 fxe4 454 17.fxe4 35 Ng4 98 18.Bxg4 31 Bxg4 5 19.c6 759 bxc6 654 20.dxc6 24 Be6 225 21.Nd5 2268 Bxd5 591 22.exd5 18 Nf5 236 23.Nf2 134 Qb8 411 24.Rab1 632 Qb5 755 25.Rfd1 96 Rf8 255 26.Qd3 704 Rab8 232 27.b3 359 a4 470 28.Ne4? 145 28.b4 Nxe3 29.Qxe3 a3 30.Ne4= 28...Qxd3 80 29.Rxd3 1 Rb4 16 30.Nf2 74 Nxe3 277 31.Rxe3 2 Bg5 52 32.Re4 60 Rb5 6 33.h4 13 Bd2 58 34.b4 69 Bc3 37 35.Ng4 32 Rxd5 47 36.Rf1 27 Rxf1+ 16 37.Kxf1 2 Kf7 76 38.Rc4 36 Bd4 107 39.a3 18 Bb2 76 40.Ne3 13 Rb5 24 41.Nc2 21 d5 179 42.Rc5 9 Rxc5 4 43.bxc5 4 Ke6 88 44.Nb4 6 Bc3 12 0–1
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Raghunandan,K2441Nguyen,A25160–12019E91Asian Junior Open & Girls U-205

Nguyen's annihilation in round eight | Photo: Mulyadi R

Nguyen's best game was against Jeth Romy Morado (PHI, 2219) in the penultimate round where he completely destroyed his opponent with a devastating attack.

In Slav Defence, Nguyen's opponent lagged in development as he moved his queen six times in the first 20 moves. This cost him dearly as the Vietnamese GM went on to win the game.

 
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1.d4 d5 37 2.c4 0 c6 15 3.Nf3 0 Nf6 13 4.Qb3 44 e6 544 5.Bg5 22 h6 109 6.Bh4 7 Qa5+ 172 7.Nc3 307 Ne4 943 8.e3 80 Na6 596 9.Be2 380 Nc7 708 10.0-0 134 g5 144 11.Bg3 33 Nxg3 6 12.fxg3 452 dxc4 140 13.Qxc4 125 Bg7 64 14.b4 613 Qb6 192 15.Rab1 586 0-0 248 16.Na4 193 Qb5 21 17.Qc2 7 Qd5 55 18.g4 293 b6 341 19.Nc3 593 Qd8 39 20.Ne5 366 Qe8 636 21.Ne4 151 f6 356 22.Nd6 505 Qe7 6 23.Qg6 255 Qxd6 481 24.Bd3 8 f5 10 25.Rxf5 25 Rxf5 60 26.gxf5 161 Qe7 175 27.f6 18 Qxf6 8 28.Qh7+ 4 Kf8 3 29.Rf1 8 Qxf1+ 28 30.Bxf1 7 Ne8 22 31.Qe4 60 Bxe5 66 32.dxe5 12 Bd7 26 33.Qh7 8 Rd8 62 34.Qxh6+ 7 Kf7 38 35.Bd3 11 Bc8 34 36.Bg6+ 12 1–0
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Nguyen,A2516Morado,J22191–02019D11Asian Junior Open & Girls U-208

This Slav DVD is a complete opening repertoire for black after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6. GM Nick Pert has played the Slav defence for over 10 years and provides all his latest and most up to date analysis crammed into one video series. Nick has spent many hours studying the best Slav lines, and he explains his favourite variations, plus includes some interactive clips where the viewer is tested on a range of theoretical questions and tactics arising from Slav games.

Final standings in Standard (Open)

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Nguyen Anh Khoi 8,0 0,0
2 Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 7,0 0,0
3 Sagita Catur Adi 6,0 0,0
4 Quizon Daniel 6,0 0,0
5 Miciano John Marvin 6,0 0,0
6 Karthik Venkataraman 6,0 0,0
7 Gholami Orimi Mahdi 5,5 0,0
8 Sevillano Rhenzi Kyle 5,5 0,0
9 Arfan Aditya Bagus 5,5 0,0
10 Rakesh Kumar Jena 5,5 0,0

Complete standings

In the Girls section, WFM Assel Serikbay did not have an ideal tournament in the Standard format as she suffered two consecutive losses, one of them against the eventual bronze medal winner WIM Aakanksha Hagawane. It did not however deter her from her path to glory. She scripted a perfect comeback and won the Gold with a score of 7.0/9.

Rd. Bo. SNo   Name Rtg FED Pts. Res.
1 9 27 WFM Edithso Samantha 1786 INA 4,0 s 1
2 6 18 WCM Nguyen Hong Ngoc 1902 VIE 4,0 w 1
3 2 2 WIM Vantika Agrawal 2243 IND 7,0 s 1
4 2 29 WFM Lakshmi C 1780 IND 5,0 w 1
5 1 4 WIM Chitlange Sakshi 2168 IND 6,0 s 0
6 2 1 WIM Aakanksha Hagawane 2246 IND 6,5 s 0
7 4 7 WFM Nurgali Nazerke 2102 KAZ 5,0 w 1
8 3 14 WFM Asgharzadeh Mitra 1980 IRI 6,0 s 1
9 3 6 WFM Singgih Diajeng Theresa 2107 INA 5,0 w 1
 

Top 3 in girls (L to R): Bronze — WIM Aakanksha Hagawane (IND, 2246), Gold — WFM Assel Serikbay (KAZ, 2071) and Silver — WIM Vantika Agrawal (IND, 2243) | Photo: Mulyadi R

She was tied with WIM Vantika Agrawal who also finished at 7.0/9. Since Serikbay had defeated Vantika in round three, it helped the Kazakh girl to win the gold medal on tiebreaks.

 
Vantika vs Assel, Standard Round 3
Assel's 30...Kg6 has a lot of intent which Vantika missed

Can you work out Black's plan here?

 
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1.e4 0 c5 0 2.Nf3 0 Nc6 38 3.Bb5 13 e6 40 4.0-0 12 Nge7 12 5.d4 11 cxd4 30 6.Nxd4 6 Qc7 237 7.Be2 742 Ng6 522 8.c4 740 a6 553 9.Be3 135 Bd6 601 10.g3 41 0-0 1003 11.Nc3 20 Nxd4 29 12.Qxd4 198 Be5 133 13.Qb6 445 Qc6 321 14.Rac1 836 Bxc3 257 15.Qxc6 83 dxc6 4 16.Rxc3 8 e5 59 17.Bb6 101 f5 114 18.Bf3 697 Re8 494 19.h4 357 Nf8 36 20.Re1 134 Nd7 275 21.Bc7 160 Nf6 60 22.exf5 145 e4 31 23.Bg2 55 Bxf5 15 24.Rd1 284 Rac8 368 25.Bf4 102 Rcd8 92 26.Rcc1 33 Bg4 108 27.Rxd8 98 Rxd8 4 28.c5 310 Bf3 319 29.Bf1 38 Kf7 65 30.Bc4+ 314 Kg6 11 31.b4 57 White needed to get the control of light squares back 31.Be6 31...Kf5 38 32.a4 37 h6 48 33.Be3 142 g5 50 Black obviously wants the g/h-file to be open since the f3 Bishop has remained unchallenged. 34.h5 31 34.hxg5 hxg5 35.Bf1 Ng4-+ 34...Ng4 131 35.b5 21 axb5 4 36.axb5 3 Nxe3-+ 75 37.fxe3 5 cxb5 126 38.Bxb5 5 Kg4 7 39.c6 116 bxc6 4 40.Rxc6 22 Kxh5 30 41.Rc2 32 Kg4 102 42.Kf2 5 h5 68 43.Ba6 28 h4 18 44.Bc8+ 15 Kh5 11 45.gxh4 80 Kxh4 10 46.Rc7 29 Rd2+ 22 47.Ke1 12 Re2+ 12 48.Kf1 6 Rxe3 49.Rh7+ 73 Kg3 52 50.Rh3+ 29 Kf4 5 51.Ba6 31 Be2+ 21 52.Bxe2 31 Rxh3 3 53.Kg2 28 Ra3 9 54.Kf2 31 g4 8 55.Kg2 30 Ra2 6 56.Kf2 30 g3+ 5 57.Kf1 5 g2+ 5 0–1
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Vantika Agrawal2243Serikbay,A20710–12019B30Asian Junior Open & Girls U-203

In round 4, Assel found a cute tactic against Lakshmi C (IND, 1780).

 
Assel vs Lakshmi C
Black just played 43...Qe6

Find the finish for White

 
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43...Qe6?? 12 44.Bxf8+- 43 Qxf7 44 44...Qxc4 45.Rxg7+ Kh8 46.Nxg6# 44...Rxf8 45.Qxe6+- 45.Qxf7 4 Rxf8 5 46.Qxg6+ Kh8 4 47.Nf5 12 Rc7 6 48.Nxg7 Rxg7 2 49.Qxh6+ 44 Kg8 2 50.e6 34 c4 40 51.e7 5 Re8 9 52.Qe6+ Kh7 7 53.Re5 17 1–0
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Final standings in Standard (Girls)

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Serikbay Assel 7,0 1,0
2 Vantika Agrawal 7,0 0,0
3 Aakanksha Hagawane 6,5 0,0
4 Asgharzadeh Mitra 6,0 0,0
5 Meghna C H 6,0 0,0
6 Chitlange Sakshi 6,0 0,0
7 Karenza Dita 6,0 0,0
8 Fisabilillah Ummi 5,5 1,0
9 Sharfina Juwita Ardelia 5,5 0,0
10 Singgih Diajeng Theresa 5,0 0,0

Complete standings

Rapid

IM Nguyen Anh Khoi (VIE, 2168) again showed dominance in the Rapid format as he registered six consecutive victories, making the final round inconsequential for securing his gold medal. Both IM Priasmoro Novendra (INA, 2263) and IM Raghunandan K S (IND, 2093) finished a full point behind at 5.0/7, however since Novendra beat Raghunandan in round four, that propelled him to secure silver medal.

The podium finishers in open (L to R): Bronze - IM Raghunandan K S (IND, 2093) 5.0/7, Gold - IM Nguyen Anh Khoi (VIE, 2168) 6.0/7 and Silver - IM Novendra Priasmoro (INA, 2263) | Photo: Mulyadi R

Final Standings in Rapid (Open)

Rk. Name Pts.
1 Nguyen Anh Khoi 6,5
2 Priasmoro Novendra 6,0
3 Raghunandan Kaumandur Srihari 5,5
4 David Saputra 5,0
5 Hafiz Arif Abdul 5,0
6 Quizon Daniel 4,5
7 Miciano John Marvin 4,5
8 Sevillano Rhenzi Kyle 4,5
9 Tarigan Gilbert Elroy 4,5
10 Nitish Belurkar 4,0

Complete standings

WIM Kylen Joy Mordido (PHI, 1865) scored six straight wins and took a full point lead heading into the final round. A draw in the last round against the eventual silver medal winner WIM Vantika Agrawal (IND, 1647) earned the gold medal. Mordido also defeated the eventual bronze medallist WFM Nurgali Nazerke (KAZ, 1897) in round five.

The podium finishers in girls (L to R): Bronze — WFM Nurgali Nazerke (KAZ, 1897) 5½/7, Gold — WIM Mordido Kylen Joy (PHI, 1865) 6.5/7 and Silver — WIM Vantika Agrawal (IND, 1647) 5½/7 | Photo: Mulyadi R

Final Standings in Rapid (Girls)

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Mordido Kylen Joy 6,5 0,0
2 Vantika Agrawal 5,5 0,0
3 Nurgali Nazerke 5,5 0,0
4 Singgih Diajeng Theresa 5,0 0,0
5 Karenza Dita 5,0 0,0
6 Legowo Parahita Millyena 5,0 0,0
7 Latifah Laysa 4,5 0,0
8 Elisabeth Christine 4,5 0,0
9 Chitlange Sakshi 4,0 0,0
10 Nyimas Shieta Prima Citra Maus 4,0 0,0

Complete standings

Blitz

IM Quizon Daniel (PHI, 2140) blazed through the competition as he scored a fiery 7.0/7 to win gold. Top seed in the open section of Blitz untitled Gholami Orimi Mahdi (IRI, 2325) scored 5½/7 to secure the Silver. FM Nitish Belurkar (IND, 2265) scored 5.0/7 to attain Bronze medal.

The medal winners in open (L to R): Silver — Gholami Orimi Mahdi (IRI, 2325) 5½/7, Gold — IM Quizon Daniel (PHI, 2140) and Bronze — FM Nitish Belurkar (IND, 2265) | Photo: Mulyadi R

Final Standings in Blitz (Open)

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Quizon Daniel 7,0 0,0
2 Gholami Orimi Mahdi 5,5 0,0
3 Nitish Belurkar 5,0 0,0
4 Karthik Venkataraman 4,5 0,0
5 Nguyen Anh Khoi 4,5 0,0
6 Morado Jeth Romy 4,5 0,0
7 Nguyen Dang Hong Phuc 4,5 0,0
8 Priasmoro Novendra 4,5 0,0
9 Arfan Aditya Bagus 4,5 0,0
10 Amanzhol Sultan 4,5 0,0

Complete standings

In the girls section, WFM Nazerke Nurgali (KAZ, 2000) started out with a loss, then she scored six consecutive wins to win the Gold. However, WIM Aakanksha Hagawane (IND, 2023) also scored 6.0/7, due to a lesser tie-break score, Aakanksha had to settle for a Silver medal. WFM Sharfina Juwita Ardelia (INA, 1803) scored 5½/7 to secure Bronze medal.

The medal winners in girls (L to R): Bronze — WFM Sharfina Juwita Ardelia (INA, 1803) 5½/7, Gold — WFM Nurgali Nazerke (KAZ, 2000) 6.0/7 and WIM Aakanksha Hagawane (IND, 2023) 6.0/7 | Photo: Mulyadi R

Final Standings in Blitz (Girls)

Rk. Name Pts.  TB1 
1 Nurgali Nazerke 6,0 0,0
2 Aakanksha Hagawane 6,0 0,0
3 Sharfina Juwita Ardelia 5,5 0,0
4 Legowo Parahita Millyena 5,0 0,0
5 Vantika Agrawal 5,0 0,0
6 Derotas Vic Glysen 5,0 0,0
7 Nguyen Hong Ngoc 4,5 0,0
8 Asgharzadeh Mitra 4,5 0,0
9 Serikbay Assel 4,5 0,0
10 Lakshmi C 4,0 0,0

Complete standings

Medal Statistics

Vietnam, Philippines and Kazakhstan each won two gold medals. India won the highest number of medals — a total of seven!

Asian Standard Rapid Bronze
Junior '19 Open Girls Open Girls Open Girls
Gold VIE KAZ VIE PHI PHI KAZ
Silver IND IND INA IND IRI IND
Bronze INA IND IND KAZ IND INA

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Shahid Ahmed is the senior coordinator and editor of ChessBase India. He enjoys covering chess tournaments and also likes to play in chess events from time to time.

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