World Youth Tracker Rd 5

Unfortunately, USA teammates sometimes must face each other.
Here William Sartorio of CalChess plays Jason Wang of Ohio.

Team USA Statistics
(Updated after Round 5)

• 129 players (76 boys + 53 girls)
• Round 4 :: 70.0 = 54%
• Round 5 :: 72.0 = 56%
• Rounds 1-5 :: 368.0 = 57%
• Perfect 5.0 = 2
• Score 4.5 = 4
• Score 4.0 = 10
• Score 3.5 = 25
  
• Average = 2.9 / 5

Aristo Liu of Ohio proudly
wears red, white and blue.

Congratulations to masters Justin Wang (Open U10) of Texas and Carissa Yip (Girls U12) of Massachusetts for winning the first five rounds!  FM Cameron Wheeler (Open U16) and NM Andrew Hong (Open U12) lead the Bay Area contingent with 4.5 each.  Rest day on Friday.  The tournament resumes on Saturday. 

Top Individual Results
(Updated after Round 5) 

• Open U18
  • Aaron Grabinsky (2194) 3.5
• Open U16
  • FM Cameron Wheeler (2356) 4.5 in 2nd place
  • Haik Der Maneulian (2163) 4.0
• Open U14
  • FM Nicolas Checa (2437) 4.5 in 2nd place
  • FM Rayan Taghizadeh (2240) 3.5
  • FM David Brodsky (2251) 3.5
• Open U12
  • Andrew Hong (2136) 4.5 in 5th place
  • Hans Niemann (2046) 4.0
  • Aydin Turgut (1884) 4.0
  • Justin Paul (1926) 3.5
  • Kevin Yang (1904) 3.5
  • FM Awonder Liang (2365) 3.5
  • Wesley Wang (2004) 3.5
• Open U10
  • Justin Wang (2046) 5.0 in 2nd place
  • Benjamin Medina (1826) 4.0
  • William Sartorio (1725) 3.5
  • CM Arthur Guo (2073) 3.5
  • Anthony He (1820) 3.5
  • Balaji Daggupati (1767) 3.5
  • CM Chinguun Bayaraa (1893) 3.5 
  • Jason Yu (1565) 3.5
  • Rohun Trakru (1517) 3.5
  • Gabriel Eidelman (1705) 3.5
• Open U8
  • Vishnu Vanapalli (unrated) 4.5 in 5th place
  • Adrian Kondakov (1565) 4.0
  • CM Aghilan Nachiappan (unrated) 4.0
  •  James Oh (unrated) 4.0
  • Adi Murgescu (unrated) 3.5
  • Arthur Xu (1782) 3.5
• Girls U18

  

  USA ladies modelling the team colors.

  • WCM Apurva Virkud (2027) 3.5
• Girls U16
  • WIM Agata Bykovtsev (2117) 4.0 in 3rd place       
  • WIM Ashritha Eswaran (2207) 3.0 
• Girls U14
  • WIM Annie Wang (2087) 4.0 in 4th place
  • Jie Tianhui (1792) 3.5
• Girls U12
  • Carissa Yip (2007) 5.0 in 1st place
  • Chenyi Zhao (1544) 3.5
• Girls U10
  • WCM Anh Nguyen (1462) 4.0
  • Rochelle Wu (unrated) 3.5
  • Julia Miyasaka (1512) 3.5
  • Rianne Ke (1392) 3.5
  • WCM Nastassja Matus (1761) 3.5
• Girls U8
  • Yan Rui Yang (unrated) 3.5

N.B. All ratings above are FIDE.  Includes players with a score of plus-2 or higher (with one exception).  Bay Area in orange.  Check back for periodic updates.  Photos from the official Chessdom photo gallery.