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	The 2001 World Junior Chess Championship
		Chess is the obvious activity which combines mental practice with sports, as it is a wisely constructed game which demands the abilities of correct prognosis, combinational thought as well as great amounts of patience, discipline, intuition and courage.
		The sport of chess is based on the sharpness and complexity of the mind and it organizes not only the awareness but also the actions of people, mainly the younger generation, thus giving youth the necessary supplies for a successful and balanced development of their personalities in all aspects of social life.
		The World Juniors are especially important in the FIDE Calendar as they assist us as Chess Administrators in determining the future direction of our sport through the activities of our Champions of the future.
	www.greekchess.com /pagosmio/messages.htm (824 words)

	ipedia.com: World Chess Championship Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The championship was conducted on a fairly informal basis through the remainder of the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth: if a player thought he was strong enough, he would challenge the reigning world champion to a match.
		In May 2002, under the terms of the so-called "Prague Agreement" masterminded by Yasser Seirawan, several leaders in the chess world met in Prague and signed a unity agreement which intended to ensure the crowning of an undisputed world champion before the end of 2003, and restore the traditional cycle of qualifying matches by 2005.
		The Women's World Championship was established by FIDE in 1927 as a single tournament held alongside the Chess Olympiad.
	www.ipedia.com /world_chess_championship.html (2958 words)

	STAR ONLINE: SS Quah's Malaysian Chess Column
		THE national closed chess championship ended a fortnight ago with a three-way tie at the top, which was unprecedented in the history of the championship.
		For many years the MCF had been organising the national age-group chess championship, where the winners of the various age-group events are given the opportunity to play at the world junior level.
		For individual world events of this type, the parents of the players are required to pay for their children's travel and boarding expenses.
	chesscolumn.20m.com /1999/99dec31.html (1144 words)

	World Junior Chess Championship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The World Junior Chess Championship is an under-20 event (players must have been under 20 years old on 1 January in the year of competition).
		Four winners, three Russian and one Indian, namely Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Viswanathan Anand, have gone on to win the FIDE World Chess Championship.
		In 1986, a separate tournament for girls was established.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Junior_Chess_Championship (102 words)

	Chess News, Chess Programs, Databases - Play Chess Online
		In 1925 Chess Fever was made, a film describing the plight of a young man who becomes completely obsessed with the game — in a country where every male appears to be similarly afflicted.
		Chess was officially included as a medal sport in the 15th Asian Games, a magnificent spectacle that was staged in Doha, Qatar.
		In the first game she had Indian chess prodigy GM Parimarjan Negi (13) on the ropes, but let him escape with a draw.
	www.chessbase.com (597 words)

	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS
		By winning the prestigious international tournament, Schneider earned a gold medal as well as a place in the World Junior Chess Championship, which is scheduled to take place June 21-July 4 in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.
		The playing field at the Pan Am juniors was made up of competitors from nine countries and was divided into two groups of eight players each.
		Schneider is a member of the chess team at UTD, one of the two best collegiate chess teams in the United States.
	www.utdallas.edu /news/archive/2003/schneiderchesswin.html (428 words)

	The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Chess seems to be more popular in south India and most of the top players are from the south.
		Chess is making great strides in the land of its birth, but its elitist image refuses to fade away.
		Emerging Indian chess players may be unknown entities in India, but they are respected worldwide.
	www.the-week.com /24dec26/sports_article3.htm (804 words)

	The Chess Mind World Junior Championship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a blog for chess fans by a chess fan, one who loves the beauty of the game and wants to share it with those who are like-minded.
		Yet the chess mind is not only a chess mind, and other topics, such as philosophy, may appear from time to time.
		Bulgaria's quest to monopolize all the world championship titles continues with the commencement of the world under-20 championship event, but on this occasion, they are distinct underdogs.
	chessmind.powerblogs.com /posts/1131598553.shtml (196 words)

	Vancouver Junior Chess Club
		Ho Math and Chess™ is the world leader in integrated math and chess teaching with worldwide locations to serve you.
		This is our well-known chess club for juniors originated by Frank Ho who has been involved with BC chess community for over 20 years and his son Andrew Ho, coached by Frank, is a FIDE chess master.
		The class is taught by a former BC chess champion Mayo who is a chess master and ranks top 5 in BC.
	www.mathandchess.com /page/page/3623687.htm (287 words)

	Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		The match between the Petrosyan team and the rest-of-the world one is held under the auspices of the World Chess Federation, which officially designated the year 2004 as the Year of Tigran Petrosyan.
		The evidence to this is that at the age of 8 in the chess championship in the Republic of Armenia Hovik Hayrapetian received the first category.
		In 1999 in the semi-final in RA he took the first place with 8.5 points, in 2000 the third place and was allowed to participate in the world championship under 10, where he took the 14th place among the champions of 92 countries.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /sports/chess/index.html (10730 words)

	US Chess Federation Press Release #13 of 2003
		She is one of the top ten rated women chess players in the United States, and she is the youngest player in the 2003 U.S. Junior Championship.
		She is the reigning national 9th grade chess champion, and she also won the national 8th grade chess championship in 2001.
		The United States Chess Federation, founded in 1939, serves as the governing body for chess in the United States and is devoted to extending the role of chess in American society.
	www.uschess.org /news/press/uspr0318.html (1138 words)

	Canadian and World Junior Championships
		The World Junior Championship is open to players under 20 at the beginning of the year in which the event takes place.
		The CFC (Chess Federation of Canada) runs the Canadian Junior Championship to determine Canada's representative at the World Junior.
		Most of the early World Juniors (1953-1974 but not 1957) were held with RR prelims and finals.
	members.shaw.ca /berry5868/jun.htm (989 words)

	Eurochess - Viswanathan Anand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After an opening run of eight draws (a record for the opening of a world championship match), Anand won game nine using a splendid sacrifice on the queen side, but then lost four of the next five.
		Anand won three consecutiveAdvanced Chess tournaments in Leon, Spain after Garry Kasparov introduced this form of chess in 1998, and is widely recognized as the world's best Advanced Chess player.
		The Chess Oscar is awarded to the year's best player according to a world-wide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists conducted by the Russian chess magazine 64.
	www.eurochess.org /content/view/30/9 (633 words)

	Sergey Dolmatov - Chesspedia, The Free Chess Encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian International Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion.
		Born in Kiselevsk in the former Soviet Union, Dolmatov's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch him to the forefront of youth chess, culminating in him winning the World Junior Chess Championship in 1978.
		Despite winning at Hastings (1989-90) and qualifying as a world championship candidate from the strong Manila Interzonal of 1990, Dolmatov narrowly failed to convert his 'preliminary round' match against Artur Yusupov the following year.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Sergey_Dolmatov.htm (339 words)

	Plenty of gains for India
		Asian junior champion Deepan Chakkravarthy matched Poobesh's efforts of 7.5 points and former National junior champion S. Kidambi found himself in the company of Neelotpal, apart from the reigning National sub-junior winner G. Rohit at seven points.
		With a firm resolve to raise the profile of chess in the country, the AICF has conducted some of the leading global events in recent times.
		If the World Cup at Hyderabad was a grand success, the World junior championship at Panaji was memorable for more reasons than one.
	www.hindu.com /tss/tss2604/stories/20030125006108600.htm (1255 words)

	Harikrishna wins World Jr chess
		Grandmaster Pendyala Harikrishna emulated Viswanathan Anand by winning the World Junior Chess Championship, with 10 points after the 13th and final round, in Kochi on Tuesday.
		White's one pawn advantage was not sufficient to give Hari a point since Ferenc, a former under-18 world champion, was defending the position with mathematical precision and the game ended in a draw after 50 moves.
		In the girls' championship, Korbut sacrificed a pawn on the 11th move to gain some attack on the rival king.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2004/nov/30chess.htm (601 words)

	Yasser Seirawan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2001, Seirawan released a plan to reunite the chess world, which at that time had two world champions: Ruslan Ponomariov had gained the title under the auspices of FIDE, while Vladimir Kramnik had beaten Garry Kasparov to take the Einstein title.
		It called for one match between Ponomariov and Kasparov (the world number one), and another between Kramnik and the winner of the 2002 Einstein tournament in Dortmund (who turned out to be Péter Lékó).
		The Kramnik-Leko match took place (the match was drawn, with Kramnik retaining his title); the Kasparov-Ponomariov match was cancelled in 2003, and this particular plan became moot after the September–October of 2006 FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 between Kramnik and Veselin Topalov reunited the world championship title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yasser_Seirawan (574 words)

	Iran Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 26--Iranian junior chess player drew with Polish counterpart in the ninth round of the World Junior Chess Championship at the Casino Hotel in southern Indian state of Kerala on Thursday, IRNA said.
		Sengupta, a former World under-12 champion, pulled off a fighting 43-move victory over Hungarian Berkes with white and in the girls' section, sixth-seeded Pune youngster Eesha Karavade upset Romanian Alina Motoc who is perched one rung above her.
		China's junior national champion Zhao Jun, who shifted from Chinese chess to the Western version a few years ago, completed the formalities for this Grandmaster title with a 35-move draw in the Queen's Indian Defense against Russian GM Alekseev Evgeny Vladimirovich.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2149/html/sports.htm (2533 words)

	All India Chess Federation
		Soumya Swaminathan is a two-time national junior girls champion having won it at Sivakasi in November 2005 and at Delhi in 2006.
		World Under-12 champion N.Srinath of Chennai narrowly missed winning the overall title in the Dubai Junior Chess Championship that concluded on July 12 at Dubai....
		Maharashtra Chess Association is organising the National Under 15 (Boys and Girls) Chess Championship on behalf of the All India Chess Federation...
	www.indianchessfed.com (4481 words)

	Zhu Chen - Chesspedia, the free chess encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
		At the age of 25 she defeated Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia in a Knock Out Tournament for the 2001/2002 Women's World Chess Championship, by 5-3, becoming the eleventh champion.
		In 1988 Zhu became the first Chinese player to win an international chess competition when she won the World Girls Under 12 Championship in Romania.
		She won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1994 and 1996.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Zhu_Chen.htm (124 words)

	Juniors gear up for World Chess today
		The World Junior Championship is slowly regaining the status as the stepping stone to World championship competition after a long gap.
		Viswanathan Anand, when he came to inaugurate the World junior in Kozhikode in 1993, made a significant observation when he said the field then was considerably weaker than when he played in Baguio.
		The GMs in the past had nothing to hope for from the World junior in the last decade because the GM result was what they could get from this event, while in the 1970s, chess was not so young as to produce so many teenaged GMs.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19981117/32150474.html (695 words)

	Chess FM - live via internet!
		National Junior Champion Mehdi Hasan Parag of Ansar became 28th in the 43rd World Junior Chess Championship which ended at Kochi, Kerela in India, on Tuesday.
		Grandmaster P Harikrishna on Tuesday emulated Viswanathan Anand by winning the World Junior Chess Championship with 10 points after the 13th and final round in Kochi on Tuesday.
		Leonine Chess Club maintained their solo lead with 18.5 points at the end of the 5th round of the...
	archive.wn.com /2004/12/01/1400/chessfm (1465 words)

	Extreme Chess At Vanier College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Andrei honed his skills in Russia where he learned to play chess with his uncle at the age of 5.
		Andrei has been invited to participate in the World Junior Chess Championship to be held in Barcelona, Spain, October 23 to November 7 and he had turned to The Learning Centre to help him with his costs.
		Andrei's goal at the World Junior chess Championship is to become a Grand Master and in this World Championship, he will do his best to represent Canada.
	www.vaniercollege.qc.ca /audiovisual/slideshow/slideshow36/default.htm (230 words)

	World Chess Championship Index
		They are the players who have fought for the title of World Chess Champion, and these pages chronicle their struggles.
		In the 1990s, the World Champion title became mired in a confusing jumble of personalities, organizations, claims, and counterclaims.
		It is a fact that Chess games and Chess positions have a hold upon many, a hold strong enough to make them burst into applause and to cause these games and positions to be preserved in books and to be fondly remembered.
	www.mark-weeks.com /chess/wcc-indx.htm (232 words)

	CHESS / Junior World Championship from today All eyes on Harikrishna - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Aspiring to take this same route are the faces of the future, who have assembled here to participate in the 43rd World Junior chess championship and the 21st World Junior girls chess championship to be held simultaneously at the Hotel Casino.
		Interestingly, only two of the top ten juniors -- Berkes Ferenc and Pentala Harikrishna, ranked fourth and ninth respectively -- are in action here while the top nine junior girls have decided to give the event a miss.
		Interestingly, apart from Anand, the only other Indian to have won the World juniors -- Koneru Humpy in 2001 -- has decided to test her skills in the Open section, where she is seeded 12th.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/Nov192004/sp13.asp (434 words)

	Blogrel » Chess
		It has a prize sack of $1.5 mil… not only it is a major tournament in and of itself [it began with the world’s top 128 players], it is also to produce the contender of the World Championship against Mr.
		It is one of the oldest of openings (chess openings are the moves that are played in the initial phase of the game, usually up to 12-15 moves), and as the name suggests, this opening is also very risky and is usually avoided by grandmasters and chess experts.
		The Armenian chess team took a bronze in the World Team Chess Championship third time in a row.
	www.blogrel.com /category/chess (779 words)

	Harikrishna, Petrosian In Joint Lead - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		Speaking at the media centre, Petrosian said he learnt chess at the age of five.
		Asked why he got the name `Tigran Petrosian', the world champion, Petrosian replied, "I was born in September, one month after the world champion died in August and my parents gave me this name after him." He also comes from the same city of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
		Harikrishna is accompanied by his father and appears in good form after he had a tiring last few rounds in the Chess Olympiad at Calvia.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js04/041122chess.html (863 words)

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