Janelle May Frayna leads Girls' World Junior Championship U20

Janelle Mae Frayna, born 1997, had a good start into the tournament and won her first four games. In round four she scored a crucial victory against Alina Bivol from Russia, one of the great favorites to win the tournament.

Janelle Mae Frayna (right, with Black) during her game against
top seed Dinara Saduakassova which ended in a draw.

Alina Bivol is on place two with 7.5/10

After her 4.0/4 start Frayna slowed down a bit. But after two draws in rounds five and six she won again in round seven and she repeated this pattern of two draws and one win in round eight to ten and after ten rounds remains unbeaten and is sole leader with 8.0/10.

Dinara Saduakassova has 7.0/10

Standings after 10 rounds

Rank		Name	IRtg	Country	Pts	BH.
1	WIM	Frayna Janelle Mae	2292	PHI	8	57
2	WIM	Bivol Alina	2362	RUS	7½	58½
3	WIM	Nandhidhaa Pv	2151	IND	7	57½
4	WGM	Saduakassova Dinara	2423	KAZ	7	57½
5	IM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	2321	COL	7	55½
6	WGM	Buksa Nataliya	2261	UKR	7	53
7	WIM	Vaishali R	2284	IND	7	51
8	WIM	Dordzhieva Dinara	2304	RUS	6½	61½
9	WIM	Michelle Catherina P	2205	IND	6½	56½
10	WIM	Tokhirjonova Gulrukhbegim	2328	UZB	6½	49
11	WFM	Ivanova Karina	2129	RUS	6	55
12	WIM	Mahalakshmi M	2101	IND	6	52½
13	WFM	Alinasab Mobina	2199	IRI	6	51
14	WFM	Injac Teodora	2252	SRB	6	51
15	WIM	Gu Tianlu	2239	CHN	6	50½
16	WIM	Parnali S Dharia	2203	IND	6	47½
17	WIM	Uuriintuya Uurtsaikh	2199	MGL	6	47
18		Bala Kannamma P	2039	IND	6	45½
19	WFM	Varshini V	2129	IND	6	42
20		Priyanka K	2048	IND	5½	57

Games rounds 1 to 10

Photos: Tournament page

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Johannes Fischer Johannes Fischer was born in 1963 in Hamburg and studied English and German literature in Frankfurt. He now lives as a writer and translator in Nürnberg. He is a FIDE-Master and regularly writes for KARL, a German chess magazine focusing on the links between culture and chess. On his own blog he regularly publishes notes on "Film, Literature and Chess".