The Confederation of Chess for America (CCA), The Renaissance Knights Chess Foundation, and US Chess Federation have announced the XXXIII Pan-American Youth Chess Festival will be held from August 11 – 18, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Hotel, Chicago, Il
National ladies national champion Hannah Wilson finished a creditable fifth place in the Girls’ Under-13 category at the FIDE World School Chess Championship in Panama.
The Queen’s College student narrowly missed out on securing a fi
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National ladies national champion Hannah Wilson has made a perfect start to the FIDE World School Chess Championship in Panama. Competing in the Girls’ Under-13 category, Wilson has reeled off five consecutive victories to emerge as the front runner at the halfway stage of the competition. Wilson, who is seeded at number six among the 34 entrants in the section, scored her biggest win on Tuesday night when she defeated …
And just in time for the new year comes news of some fine performances by young U.S. stars at this month’s FIDE world youth championships, with eight players medaling and four bringing home the gold in a modified rapid knockout event played (of course) online.
The honor roll: WGM Carissa Yip, Under-18 Girls gold; Dimitar Mardov, Under-12 Open gold; Alice Lee, Under-12 Girls gold; Omya Vidyarthi, Under-10 Girls gold; Thalia Cervantes Landeiro, Under-18 Girls silver; Zoey Tang, Under-12 Girls silver; IM Christopher Yoo, Under-14 Open bronze; Bach Ngo, Under-12 Open bronze.
And the quality of the play, given the shorter time controls and weird circumstances, was refreshingly high. Yip and Cervantes Landeiro engaged in tense absorbing battle in Under-18 girls final before the more experienced Yip finally broke on top.