{"id":440,"date":"2015-07-10T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=440"},"modified":"2015-07-10T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T17:30:27","slug":"success-in-pan-american-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"Success in Pan-American Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"

More success for members of the Young Stars program, as well as for youth U.S. Chess overall! This time many medals were achieved in the Pan-American Youth Festival, which was held in the city of Cali, Colombia.<\/p>\n

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The playing hall in Cali<\/em><\/p>\n

The event gathers the strongest players from each country in the Americas, representing them in 12 categories: u8, u10, u12, u14, u16 and u18 in both open and girl’s sections. Despite some minor complaints about organization overall, some dubious officiating, and relatively poor playing conditions (the sports arena where the tournament was held would sometimes reach above 90 degrees!), the players and coaches from the U.S. gave a generally positive feedback of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The results from the U.S. team were outstanding: a fabulous ten medals:<\/p>\n

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Fresh of winning the Girl’s Invitational u20 in Tulsa, Young Stars members Ashritha Eswaran conquered a bronze medal in Cali for the u18 Pan-American. She tied for first, but the mathematical tiebreak system put her on third.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ariah Leib Shlionsky\u00a0<\/b>Under 8 Open (gold)
\nMaya Behura<\/b>\u00a0in the Under 8 Girls (gold)
\nAksithi Eswaran\u00a0<\/b>in the Under 10 Girls (gold)
\nSanjana Vittal<\/b>\u00a0in the Under 12 Girls (gold)
\nMarcus M Miyasaka<\/b>\u00a0in the Under 14 Open (gold)
\nAnh Nguyen<\/b>\u00a0in the Under 10 Girls (silver)
\nAtreya Vaidya<\/b>\u00a0 in the Under 10 Open (silver)
\nAgata Bykovtsev<\/b>\u00a0in the Girls Under 16 (silver)
\nZhao Chenyi<\/b> in the Girls Under 12 (bronze)
\nAshritha Eswaran<\/b>\u00a0in the Girls Under 18 (bronze)<\/p>\n

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Aksithi Eswaran is following well on her sister’s footsteps! She was ruthless in Colombia, scoring a perfect 9.0\/9.<\/p>\n

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The coaching staff was comprised of FST Armen Abartsoumian, KCF President and Senior Trainer Michael Khodarkovsky, and the head of delegation Aviv Friedman. Also helping the U.S. Team was GM Dejan Bojkov, who went as the coach of the Eswaran sisters and Chenyi Zhao.<\/p>\n

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Aksithi Eswaran, Dejan Bojkov, Ashritha Eswaran and Chenyi Zhao, who also got bronze.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can read the impressions from Cali by the head of delegation, Aviv Friedman, on www.uschess.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Also Dejan Bojkov has done an extensive photo-report on the chess news portal, www.chesssbase.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Photos by Aleksey Pershin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More success for members of the Young Stars program, as well as for youth U.S. Chess overall! This time many medals were achieved in the Pan-American Youth Festival, which was held in the city of Cali, Colombia. The playing hall in Cali The event gathers the strongest players from each country in the Americas, representing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}