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In a very competitive and balanced U20 World Junior Championship, six players were leading with 5 points before the seventh round. The top group included German IM Ruben Gideon Koellner, who even took second place after special scoring.
In one of the three top games, Koellner faced the Hungarian IM Gleb Dudin. After a somewhat experimental opening, the young German IM reached equality with Black, but got bogged down in the intricacies of the middlegame and had to accept his first defeat.
On this DVD GM Yannick Pelletier offers Black a repertoire against the London System that you can employ no matter which opening (Systems with d5, systems with g6, Queen's Indian, Queen's Gambit, Benoni, Benko, Dutch) you usually play against 1.d4 followed by 2.c4. Thematic games explain and illustrate the theory and ideas of the repertoire Pelletier proposes.
On the first board, Marc’Andria Maurizzi won the duel against Pranav Anand. On board 3, meanwhile, Santiago Avila defeated Sharma Dushyant. The leading sextet has thus been halved after the sixth round, with Maurizzi keeping the best tiebreak score.
Co-leader Santiago Avila from Colombia | Photo: David Llada
Second seed Frederik Svane, who had given up two draws and lost one game before round 7, is slowly fighting his way up. In the seventh round, he faced English talent Shreyas Royal and obtained a nice and unchallenged attacking win.
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 | GM | MAURIZZI, Marc`andria | 2555 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2 | IM | DUDIN, Gleb | 2537 | 6 | 0 | |
| 3 | GM | AVILA PAVAS, Santiago | 2510 | 6 | 0 | |
| 4 | GM | SUBELJ, Jan | 2492 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 5 | GM | GHARIBYAN, Mamikon | 2495 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 6 | GM | BUDISAVLJEVIC, Luka | 2492 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 7 | GM | SCHITCO, Ivan | 2533 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 8 | IM | AMAR, Elham | 2541 | 5 | 0 | |
| 9 | GM | PRANAV, Anand | 2509 | 5 | 0 | |
| 10 | GM | NIEMANN, Hans Moke | 2667 | 5 | 0 | |
| 11 | IM | KOELLNER, Ruben Gideon | 2485 | 5 | 0 | |
| 12 | IM | KOELLE, Tobias | 2458 | 5 | 0 | |
| 13 | IM | FLORES QUILLAS, Diego Saul Rodri | 2357 | 5 | 0 | |
| 14 | GM | STEFANSSON, Vignir Vatnar | 2484 | 5 | 0 | |
| 15 | IM | DUSHYANT, Sharma | 2339 | 5 | 0 |
In the girls’ tournament, Carissa Yip from the United States is dominating the field. She defeated Sofiia Hryzlova from Switzerland in round 7. It was her third win in a row and her sixth win overall. So far, only Tatiana Getman has managed to “steal” a half point off the American. Yip’s Tournament Performance Rating is currently 2569.
Master Class Vol.16 - Judit Polgar
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.
Carissa Yip | Photo: David Llada
| Rk. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | ||
| 1 | IM | YIP, Carissa | 2372 | 6,5 | 0 | |
| 2 | WGM | KRASTEVA, Beloslava | 2223 | 6 | 0 | |
| 3 | WIM | KANYAMARALA, Trisha | 2184 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 4 | WIM | OBREGON GARCIA, Roxangel | 2171 | 5,5 | 0 | |
| 5 | WIM | MKRTCHYAN, Mariam | 2343 | 5 | 0 | |
| 6 | WIM | HRYZLOVA, Sofiia | 2228 | 5 | 0 | |
| 7 | WGM | FRANCISCO GUECAMBURU, Candela Be | 2345 | 5 | 0 | |
| 8 | WIM | LU, Miaoyi | 2214 | 5 | 0 | |
| 9 | WIM | BOMMINI, Mounika Akshaya | 2096 | 5 | 0 | |
| 10 | WIM | SULTANBEK, Zeinep | 2022 | 5 | 0 | |
| 11 | WFM | DJIDJELI, Sarah | 2058 | 5 | 0 | |
| 12 | SKASLIEN, Ingrid | 1919 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 13 | WIM | DEMCHENKO, Svitlana | 2169 | 5 | 0 | |
| 14 | WGM | RAKSHITTA, Ravi | 2272 | 4,5 | 0 | |
| 15 | WFM | RODRIGUEZ REDONDO, Adhara | 2135 | 4,5 | 0 |
Attack like a Super Grandmaster
In this Fritztrainer: “Attack like a Super GM†with Gukesh we touch upon all aspects of his play, with special emphasis on how you can become a better attacking player.
