FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2013 for boys & girls under 20 will be held in Kocaeli, Turkey, from 12th September (arrival) to 27th September (departure) 2013.
The event was originally supposed to take place in Hatay, but due to the proximity of the Syrian border and the escalation in the region, FIDE called a force majeure and asked for a new venue.
The Girls Section will have 75 participants, including 8 WGM, 19 WIM and 15 WFM. Full list below.
The Boys Section will have 117 participants, including 10 GM, 26 IM and 19 FM. Local player Alexander Ipatov will defend last year’s title.
Tournament website
Participants, Boys (top seeds):
CHN GM 2662 Yu, Yangyi
TUR GM 2601 Ipatov, Alexander
PER GM 2587 Cori, Jorge
SWE GM 2576 Grandelius, Nils
ARM GM 2575 Ter-Sahakyan, Samvel
UAE GM 2570 Salem, A.R. Saleh
BLR IM 2568 Kovalev, Vladislav
IND GM 2565 Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi
IND GM 2553 Sethuraman, S.P.
CHN GM 2551 Wei, Yi
RUS IM 2550 Eliseev, Urii
SRB IM 2549 Indjic, Aleksandar
POL IM 2534 Duda, Jan-Krzysztof
RUS IM 2522 Stukopin, Andrey
Participants, Girls (top seeds):
RUS WGM 2434 Kashlinskaya, Alina
PER WGM 2433 Cori T., Deysi
RUS WGM 2418 Goryachkina, Aleksandra
CHN WGM 2392 Wang, Jue
ROU WGM 2387 Bulmaga, Irina
GEO WGM 2379 Arabidze, Meri
KAZ WGM 2326 Saduakassova, Dinara
IND WGM 2312 Padmini, Rout
CHN WIM 2309 Zhai, Mo
IRI WIM 2303 Khademalsharieh, Sarasadat
INA WIM 2301 Medina, Warda Aulia
The 2 Cori will win it.
why there are no Americans?
Yea, ……why are there no Americans at this tournament.