idChess at the World Cadet & Youth Rapid & Blitz Championships in Georgia

From 6 to 11 June Batumi (Georgia) hosted the World Cadet & Youth Rapid & Blitz Championships. 459 children from 35 countries around the world took part in it. Spectators could watch the games of the tournament on the platform at live.idchess.com

The idChess team participated in the event by invitation of the Georgian Chess Federation and organized an idChess fan zone. The spectators could watch the players' games on the screens in the hotel lobby.

"A useful technology that greatly simplifies the process of organizing the broadcast of games at chess tournaments.", Marika Japaridze, Chief judge of the competition, FIDE Master, International Arbiter (IA).

Some results of the Rapid Championship:

Results of players from Russia:

Open U18 — the first three places — Volodar Murzin, Alexey Grebnev, Maxim Tsaryuk

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Open U14 — 3rd place Savva Vetokhin

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Open U12 — 2nd place Temirbekov Taymaz

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Open U10 — 1st place Sergey Sklokin, 3rd place — Bulgak Damir

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Girls U10 — 1st place Kristina Zavivaeva

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Girls U12 — 3rd place Diana Preobrazhenskaya

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Girls U14 — 3rd place Anna Shukhman

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Girls U16 — 1st place Alexandra Shvedova 

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A lot of prizes were taken by players from Vietnam:

1st and 2nd places in the Open U14, 1st place in U12,

3rd place in the Open U8, 1st place in the Girls U12 section,

2nd place in the Girls U18 section.

Some results of the Blitz Championship:

Russian chess players won first places in several categories:

Open U18 — 1st place Volodar Murzin, 2nd place Alexey Grebnev

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Open U14 — 1st place Savva Vetokhin, 2nd place Artem Uskov

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Open U12 — 1st place Prokhor Moskvinov, 2nd place Egor Korelsky

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Open U10 — 1st place Sergey Sklokin

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Girls U10 — 3rd place Kristina Zavivaeva

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Girls U16 — first and third places — Alexandra Shvedova, Alyona Volchkova

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Many prize-winning places were taken by players from Belarus and Kazakhstan:

Open U8 — 2nd place Iman Nabiev

Girls U12 — 1st place Altynbek Ayaru

Girls U14 — 1st place Zarina Nurgalieva

The leading players from Vietnam in several categories won three third places — in the Open U8 and U12, and in the category of Girls U18. And the second place in the Girls U12 category.

In the category of Girls U8, the representative of England Bodhana Sivanandan scored 100% of points in both rapid and blitz.