Charvi Anilkumar and Shubhi Gupta clinch Gold at World Cadets 2022, Bronze for Safin Safarullakhan

by Shahid Ahmed - 28/09/2022

Charvi Anilkumar and Shubhi Gupta are the World Champions in Under-8 Girls and Under-12 Girls category respectively. They both have won a Gold medal each for India. Charvi scored 9.5/11 and Shubhi made 8.5/11, both of them edged past other competitors on tie-breaks to etch their name in history. Safin Safarullakhan is the only other Indian to claim a medal. He won the Bronze in Under-8 Open, scoring sole 9/11. India won two more Gold in the same month after Pranav Anand and Ilamparthi won a Gold each in World Youth Under-16 and Under-14 Open respectively, a little over a week ago. Thus, India now has the highest number of Gold medals between the age group of Under-8 and Under-18.

The Golden era of Indian chess continues

Three out of four medal hopefuls won a medal each in their respective category. Currently India has four Gold medalists between the age group of Under-8 and Under-18. Two of them are in Open section - Ilamparthi A R (Under-14), Pranav Anand (Under-16) and the remaining two are now in the Girls section - Charvi A (Under-8) and Shubhi Gupta (Under-12). That's not all. Indian kids won three medals in the World Youth Chess Solving Championship too. Samhita Pungavanam (Gold in Under-8 Girls), Charvi A (Bronze in Under-8 Girls) and Ethan Vaz (Silver in Under-12 Boys).

World Cadets 2022 medal winners (L to R): Safin Safarullakhan (Bronze - Under-8 Open), Shubhi Gupta (Gold - Under-12 Girls) and Charvi A (Gold - Under-8 Girls) | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

India has two new World Champions - Charvi A and Shubhi Gupta | Video: ChessBase India

Under-8 Girls: Bodhana Sivanandan (Silver), Charvi A (Gold) and Lila Rzadkowska (Bronze) | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Under-12 Girls (L to R): Maedeh Yousefian (Silver), Shubhi Gupta (Gold) and Oksana Goriachkina (Bronze) | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Under-8 Open (L to R) - Roman Sav Shogdzhiev (Silver), Marc Llari (Gold) and Safin Safarullakhan (Bronze) | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Under-8 Girls: Charvi A (Gold)

Charvi A (1355) defeated Sofya Rom Kuraeva (KAZ) in the final round to finish with a score of 9.5/11. Bodhana Sivanandan (ENG, 1587) also scored the same. Charvi won Gold due to better tie-breaks.

World Under-8 Girls Gold medalist - Charvi A 9.5/11 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Under-12 Girls: Shubhi Gupta (Gold)

Shubhi Gupta (1733) drew with Oksana Goriachkina (1748) in the final round to score 8.5/11 along with three more girls - Maedeh Yousefian (IRI, 1765), Oksana and Diana Preobrazhenskaya (1994). Shubhi claimed the Gold due to better tie-breaks and the remaining three were placed second to fourth.

World Under-12 Girls Gold medalist - Shubhi Gupta 8.5/11 | Photo: FIDE/Mark Livshitz

Under-8 Open: Safin Safarullakhan (Bronze)

Safin Safarullakhan (1377) defeated Ignacy Buklaho (POL, 1179) in the final round to score sole 9/11 and win the Bronze medal. Despite being worse for the better part of the game, he managed to perseverse and win in the end.

World Youth Chess Solving medalists (L to R): Ethan Vaz (Silver, Under-12 Boys), Charvi A (Bronze, Under-8 Girls) and Samhita Pungavanam (Gold, Under-8 Girls)

World Youth Chess Solving Championship top 3 standings in Under-12 Boys and Under-8 Girls | Source

World Cadets 2022 medalists (L to R) - Shubhi Gupta, Charvi A and Safin Safarullakhan with coaches FI S C Subramanian, CM FI IA Aparajita Gochhikar and AICF Interim Secretary, Dr. IA NI Vipnesh Bhardwaj

All five medalists at World Cadets and World Youth Chess Solving Championships (L to R) - Ethan Vaz, Shubhi Gupta, Charvi A, Safin Safarullakhan and Samhita Pungavanam

The entire team India with their parents and officials

Replay Round 10-11 games of all sections

Round 11 results in all categories

Rd.	Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No.
11	3	64		Buklaho Ignacy	1179	7½	0 - 1	8	AFM	Safin Safarullakhan	1377	26
11	16	28		Apostu Rares-Stefan	1361	6	0 - 1	6		Aadhya V	1193	57
11	21	137		Samaraweera S M Sethika Hans	0	6	½ - ½	6		Sanikommu Jaideep Reddy	1239	49
11	43	120		Latypov Mark Ev	0	5	1 - 0	5		Aarush Bathula	1118	78
11	48	40		Avyaay Garg	1275	4½	1 - 0	4½		Lipartia Giorgi	0	124
11	6	16		Botiraliev Abdumajid	1762	7	0 - 1	7		Vivaan Vishal Shah	1899	7
11	33	80		Ritesh Maddukuri	1272	5½	½ - ½	5½		Anand Munkhbat	1441	50
11	3	9	CM	Nurgaliyev Sauat	2133	7½	1 - 0	8	AIM	Vaz Ethan	1885	35
11	8	7		Ilinca Ilinca Felix Antonio	2184	6½	1 - 0	7		Adireddy Arjun	1823	46
11	17	27		Goutham Krishna H	1940	6	1 - 0	6		Keneshbekov Elim	1732	59
11	41	73		Khvedelidze Luka	1666	5	1 - 0	5		Vandan Alankar Sawai	1481	102
11	51	120		Zhu Charis	1350	4½	0 - 1	4½		Mrinmoy Rajkhowa	1635	79
11	61	129		Babkin Kirill	1217	4	0 - 1	4		Kavin Vijayakumar	1374	115
11	63	117		Nithik Reddy Bhavanam	1367	3½	0 - 1	3½		Theodoridis Charalampos	1657	75
11	2	5		Charvi A	1355	8½	1 - 0	7		Kuraeva Sofya Rom	0	57
11	8	15		Samhita Pungavanam	1140	6½	1 - 0	6½		Mahmudova Nilufar	0	59
11	2	4		Venskaya Nika	1470	8½	1 - 0	7½		Hanya Shah	1336	24
11	4	8		Siskou Evangelia	1421	7	1 - 0	7		Tripurambika V	1183	48
11	6	45		Aadya Ranganath	1184	7	0 - 1	7		Chichinadze Anastasia	1220	40
11	1	9	AFM	Shubhi Gupta	1733	8	½ - ½	8		Goriachkina Oksana	1748	7
11	3	20		Shreya G Hipparagi	1574	7½	½ - ½	7½	WCM	Kaliakhmet Elnaz	1864	3
11	7	44		Khafizova Diana	1411	6½	1 - 0	6½		Saparya Ghosh	1563	22
11	22	73	AFM	Aadya Gupta	1230	5½	0 - 1	5½		Vlasova Mariya N	1456	35
11	27	46		Kim Sarang	1402	5	0 - 1	5		Kirthika B	1247	70
11	30	12		Alfano Emilie	1712	4½	1 - 0	5		Durga Karthika Lellapalli	1203	79

Details: Under-8 Open, Under-10 Open, Under-12 Open, Under-8 Girls, Under-10 Girls and Under-12 Girls

Final standings in Under-8 Open

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	2		Llari Marc	FRA	1800	9,5	1	75,5	80,5	5	8	1690	40	-3,6
2	3		Shogdzhiev Roman Sav	FID	1715	9,5	0	77,5	83	6	9	1729	40	32
3	26	AFM	Safin Safarullakhan	IND	1377	9	0	72	76,5	6	9	1682	40	153,2

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Final standings in Under-8 Girls

Rk.	SNo	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	5	Charvi A	IND	1355	9,5	0,5	74	79,5	5	9	1489	40	58,8
2	2	Sivanandan Bodhana	ENG	1587	9,5	0,5	74	79	6	8	1483	40	7,6
3	19	Rzadkowska Lila	POL	1125	8,5	0	74,5	78,5	6	8	1459	40	116

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Final standings in Under-12 Girls

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1	9	AFM	Shubhi Gupta	IND	1733	8,5	0	76	82	5	7	1861	40	81,6
2	6		Yousefian Maedeh	IRI	1765	8,5	0	74	80	5	7	1779	40	23,6
3	7		Goriachkina Oksana	FID	1748	8,5	0	69	74	6	7	1697	40	5,2

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