{"id":27124,"date":"2024-06-08T02:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T02:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=27124"},"modified":"2024-06-17T11:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T11:46:33","slug":"world-junior-championship-2024-crosses-halfway-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/world-junior-championship-2024-crosses-halfway-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"World Junior Championship 2024 crosses halfway mark"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"27124\" class=\"elementor elementor-27124\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2c0c134 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no\" data-id=\"2c0c134\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-33336ca\" data-id=\"33336ca\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9210f23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9210f23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2024 in Gujarat, India, passed its midpoint. The organizers have prepared some fascinating entertainment for the participants&#8217; day off, including various excursions, a table tennis tournament, and many other options. This will allow the players to rest and prepare for the second half of the tournament starting on June 9th.<\/p><p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the standings and results of both Open and Girls sections after six rounds.<\/p><p>In the Open event, four players are tied for first place, scoring 5 points each: IM Nogerbek Kazybek (KAZ, pictured below), GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso (COL), IM Rudik Makarian (FID), and IM De Silva L M S T (SRI).<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/26673\/ae566253288191ce5d879e51dae1d8c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><p>As many as 13 players, including the second and third seeds Alexey Grebnev (FID) and Pranav Anand (IND), are trailing the leading quartet by just a half-point. This ensures an even more fascinating and entertaining second half of the tournament.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr945372.aspx?lan=11&amp;art=1&amp;rd=6&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30\">Standings after Round 6 Open<\/a><\/p><p>In the Girls&#8217; section, IM Divya Deshmukh (pictured below) is the sole leader with 5.5 points after six rounds. WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan (ARM), Narmin Abdinova (AZE), and Kseniya Norman (FID) are just a half-point behind. Just like in the open section, the girls&#8217; tournament is keeping us guessing who will emerge as the winner at the end.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/app.fide.com\/upload\/26674\/8df7b73a7820f4aef47864f2a6c5fccf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr945385.aspx?lan=11&amp;art=1&amp;rd=6&amp;turdet=YES&amp;flag=30\">Standings after Round 6 Girls<\/a><\/p><p>Some general information about the tournament:<\/p><ul><li>There are almost 230 players in this tournament from 44 different federations with 104 different titles.<\/li><li>55% of all participants in this competition are from the host country, India.<\/li><\/ul><p>The live broadcast is available here:<\/p><p>Open section<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/live.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/open\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/open\/index.html<\/a><\/p><p>Girls section<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/live.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/girls\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">live.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/girls\/index.html<\/a><\/p><p>Photos: Sarangam Production<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2024 in Gujarat, India, passed its midpoint. The organizers have prepared some fascinating entertainment for the participants&#8217; day off, including various excursions, a table tennis tournament, and many other options. This will allow the players to rest and prepare for the second half of the tournament starting on June 9th. Let&#8217;s take a look at the standings and results of both Open and Girls sections after six rounds. In the Open event, four players are tied for first place, scoring 5 points each: IM Nogerbek Kazybek (KAZ, pictured below), GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso (COL), IM Rudik Makarian (FID), and IM De Silva L M S T (SRI). As many as 13 players, including the second and third seeds Alexey Grebnev (FID) and Pranav Anand (IND), are trailing the leading quartet by just a half-point. This ensures an even more fascinating and entertaining second half of the tournament. Standings after Round 6 Open In the Girls&#8217; section, IM Divya Deshmukh (pictured below) is the sole leader with 5.5 points after six rounds. WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan (ARM), Narmin Abdinova (AZE), and Kseniya Norman (FID) are just a half-point behind. Just like in the open section, the girls&#8217; tournament is keeping us guessing who will emerge as the winner at the end. Standings after Round 6 Girls Some general information about the tournament: There are almost 230 players in this tournament from 44 different federations with 104 different titles. 55% of all participants in this competition are from the host country, India. The live broadcast is available here: Open sectionlive.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/open\/index.html Girls sectionlive.aicf.in\/worldjunior2024\/girls\/index.html Photos: Sarangam Production<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[65,209,156],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-27124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-fide-world-junior-championship","tag-india","tag-youth-chess"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27124"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27129,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124\/revisions\/27129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27124"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=27124"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=27124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}