{"id":637,"date":"2016-06-17T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T08:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=637"},"modified":"2016-06-17T08:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T08:04:36","slug":"gm-norm-for-awonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"GM-norm for Awonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

13-year-old Awonder Liang just earned his first GM norm at the Continental Championships held in San Salvador, El Salvador May 28-June 5, 2016.\u00a0There were 13 Grandmasters (GMs), 12 International Masters (IMs) and 12 FIDE Masters (FMs) competing in the event.<\/p>\n

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Awonder comes from a greaet result in Hasselbacken<\/em><\/p>\n

The 11 opponents whom Awonder competed against in the event are:\u00a0(copied from Awonder\u2019s GM Norm Certificate):<\/div>\n
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Round one: Oscar Valencia, El Salvador, FIDE Rating 1792 (adjusted to 2200), Awonder won<\/div>\n
Round two: GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista, Cuba, FIDE\u00a0Rating 2681, Awonder won<\/div>\n
Round three:GM Alan Pichot,\u00a0\u00a0Argentina, FIDE\u00a0Rating 2532, draw<\/div>\n
Round four: IM David Arenas,\u00a0\u00a0Colombia, FIDE\u00a0Rating 2496, Awonder won<\/div>\n
Round five: GM Sergey Erenburg,\u00a0\u00a0USA, FIDE\u00a0Rating 2587, draw<\/div>\n
Round six: FM Perez Gormaz Matias, Chile,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2437, Awonder won<\/div>\n
Round seven: GM Emilio Cordova, Peru,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2602, draw<\/div>\n
Round eight: GM Aleksandr Lenderman, USA,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2614, Awonder lost<\/div>\n
Round nine: GM Yuri Gonzalez Vidal, Cuba,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2555, draw
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Round ten: GM Sandro Mareco, Argentina,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2610, Awonder lost<\/div>\n
Round eleven: CM Ernesto Jorge Giron, El Salvador,\u00a0\u00a0FIDE\u00a0Rating 2218, Awonder won<\/div>\n
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Awonder with newly made friends in El Salvador<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Awonder elaborated to US Chess on his great result (and fun time!) in San Salvador.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe people here seem very friendly and energetic. The drivers are among the most skillful and creative in the world. The streets in San Salvador are normally very crowded. But the buses taking us players and families from the three hotels to the playing avenue arrived safely and on time every day with the diligent and dutiful escort of police motorcades, and policemen armed with shotguns on the buses. The tournament was run very smoothly and the round always started punctuating the clock. This truly reflects that the organizer, the arbiters and other supporting members of the team, including the government, put in huge efforts with challenging conditions. I would like to \u00a0give a big \u201cThank You\u201d to every one involved.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Another big\u00a0 Thank You<\/em> to Mr. John Buck and his company, Dr. Tansel Turgut, Dr. Nidal Aker, Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Doren, Dr. Connie Li and Prof. Ran Bin, Dr. and Mrs. Keming Song, Dr. and Mrs. David Huang, Dr. and Mr. Shucai Huang, Dr. and Mrs.Yiming Li, Dr. and Mrs. Xue Qi, Dr. and Mrs. Zhiliang Hu, Dr. and Mrs. Zhenhua Ma. Their generous financial support made my trips to chess tournaments, including this one, possible.<\/div>\n
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I would also like to say \u00a0Thank You<\/em> to Mr. Garry Kasparov and Mr. Rex and Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield for their support to my uncompromising chess pursuit through the \u201cYoung Stars-Team USA\u201d program, which is co-sponsored by the Kasparov Chess Foundation and the Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center.<\/div>\n
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Thank You<\/em> to Mr. Mike Nietman, all of my teachers in school and all friends and supporters out there who have been backing me all the time.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We at the Kasparov Chess Foundation congratulate Awonder for this amazing result, and wish him a swift path to his GM-title!<\/em><\/div>\n
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You can find more information about the tournament as well as Awonder’s games from that event at\u00a0USChess<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

13-year-old Awonder Liang just earned his first GM norm at the Continental Championships held in San Salvador, El Salvador May 28-June 5, 2016.\u00a0There were 13 Grandmasters (GMs), 12 International Masters (IMs) and 12 FIDE Masters (FMs) competing in the event. Awonder comes from a greaet result in Hasselbacken The 11 opponents whom Awonder competed against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":641,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kasparovchessfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}