Monday 23 November 2009

Bobby Cheng wins World Under 12 Championship

Australian Junior Bobby Cheng has become the World Under 12 Champion, finishing outright first in his division in the World Youth Chess Championships in Turkey. Cheng secured the victory with a win over the tournament top seed in the final round. Although representing Australia, Cheng started his chess career in New Zealand, a point not missed by their media.
Almost as good was in the Under 8 Championship where Anton Smirnov finished in a tie for second place, although he missed a medal on countback.
Of the Canberra juniors who played, Yi Yuan scored 7/11 in the Under 14's, Emma Guo scored 6 in the Under 14 Girls, while in the Under 18 Girls Tamzin Oliver scored 4.5 and Alana Chibnall scored 4.

Vaibhav,Suri (2344) - Cheng,Bobby (2202) [C05]
WORLD YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2009 (U1 Antalya (11.1), 22.11.2009

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.f4 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ndf3 cxd4 8.cxd4 a5 9.Bd3 a4 10.a3 Nb6 11.Ne2 Na5 12.0-0 g6 13.Qc2 Nb3 14.Rb1 Bd7 15.g4 Rc8 16.Nc3 Nc4 17.f5 Nxd4 18.Nxd4 Bc5 19.fxg6 Bxd4+ 20.Kh1 hxg6 21.Bxg6 Nxe5 22.Bh5 Bc6 23.Qe2 Bxc3 24.bxc3 d4+ 25.Kg1 Qd5 26.cxd4 (D)
26. ... Rxh5 27.gxh5 Nd3 0-1

4 comments:

Paul said...

Well done Bobby !

Stephen E. Jones said...

This is an amazingly good game for an under 12 year old. A well thought-out and executed strategic plan on the queen side of a French bears tactical fruit, which is taken with ruthless efficiency.

I have been playing through all the games of Capablanca and Bobby's game as black here may be as good as the 12-year old Capablanca's celebrated victory as black against Cuban champion Juan Corzo.

It is notoriously difficult to predict the future success of child prodigies in chess, so time will tell if this game will one day feature in a Best Games of [Grandmaster/World Champion] Bobby Cheng!

Stephen E. Jones

Anonymous said...

Shaun, are you another one of these 'nobody in the real world, big-ego chess nerds'? Most of your posts are at best stupid and parochial, at worst a waste of space and time.

Get a life!

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