6/15/2024 – Kazybek Nogerbek from Kazakhstan and Divya Deshmuk from India are the new U20 World Champions. Bogerbek won the decisive game in the final round against former leader Mamikon Gharibyan from Armenia, while Divy also won her final round game to end the event with a remarkable 10/11 score. | Photos: Aditya Sur Roy
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A clutch win
Kazybek Nogerbek is the new U20 World Junior Champion. The 20-year-old Kazakh grandmaster won the decisive game in the final round of the World Junior Championships in Gandhinagar (India) against Armenian grandmaster Mamikon Gharibyan, who entered the final round leading the standings with 8 points.
Emin Ohanyan, also from Armenia, overtook Gharibyan in the final standings as well. Ohanyan beat Daniel Quizon from the Philippines in the eleventh round. Both Nogerbek and Ohanyan finished with 8½ points. Tiebreak criteria favoured Nogerbek.
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ChessBase India captured the decisive moment on video.
Top 3 Open: Silver - GM Emin Ohanyan (ARM) 8½/11, Gold - GM Kazybek Nogerbek (KAZ) 8½/11 and Bronze - GM Luka Budisavljevic (SRB) 8/11
Behind the two leaders, a group of three players finished with 8 points. In addition to Luka Budisavljevic from Serbia and Gharibyan, this group also included Tobias Kölle, one of two German representatives in the open world championship. Kölle won his game against Baris Ozenir Ekin in the final round. With fifth place in the final ranking and 31st place in the seeding list, Kölle clearly exceeded expectations. He also remained undefeated over the course of the tournament.
IM Tobias Kölle gewinnt überzeugend die letzte Runde der U20 WM und ist damit Fünfter geworden.
India’s Divya Deshmuk won the title at the World Junior Women’s Championship with 10 points from 11 rounds. In the final round, she won against Beloslava Krasteva from Bulgaria.
In this course, we will learn how to identify passively placed pieces in any given situation and how to improve their health by bringing them into active squares.
🇮🇳 IM Divya Deshmukh wins her game and becomes the 2024 FIDE World U20 Girls Chess Champion! 👑 pic.twitter.com/WFYO03cEae
— International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) June 13, 2024
However, Mariam Mkrtchian from Armenia was hot on the heels of the clear rating favourite throughout the tournament. The former U18 world champion scored 9½ points and grabbed silver. Third place went to Ayan Allahverdiyeva from Azerbaijan, who ended the event with 8½ points to her name.
Top 3 Girls: Silver - WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan (ARM) 9½/11, Gold - IM Divya Deshmukh 10/11 and Bronze - WIM Ayan Allahverdiyeva (AZE) 8½/11
In this course, you’ll learn how to take the initiative against the London and prevent White from comfortably playing their usual system by playing 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 Nh5.
London System Powerbase 2026 is a database and contains in all 11 285 games from Mega 2026 and the Correspondence Database 2026, of which 282 are annotated.
The London System Powerbook 2026 is based on more than 410 000 games or game fragments from different opening moves and ECO codes; what they all have in common is that White plays d4 and Bf4 but does not play c4.
In this course, Grandmaster Elisabeth Pähtz presents the London System, a structured and ambitious approach based on the immediate Bf4, leading to rich and dynamic positions.
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The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation with 5.Bf4 has a great balance between positional play and sharp pawn pushes; and will be a surprise for your opponents while being easy to learn for you, as the key patterns are familiar.
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