Jamaica and Brazil contest youth, cadet chess championship in Greece

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Bond is back at the chessboard! The ageless James Bond, much like the ageless game of chess, finds himself once again playing chess in his 24th and new film Spectre. British actor Daniel Craig (in photo) plays Bond. Chess was first introduced in the 1963 film From Russia With Love when Soviet grandmaster Kronsteen crushed the Canadian chess champion Mc Adams with an elegant combination beginning with a discovered check.
Bond is back at the chessboard! The ageless James Bond, much like the ageless game of chess, finds himself once again playing chess in his 24th and new film Spectre. British actor Daniel Craig (in photo) plays Bond. Chess was first introduced in the 1963 film From Russia With Love when Soviet grandmaster Kronsteen crushed the Canadian chess champion Mc Adams with an elegant combination beginning with a discovered check.

The exclusive World Youth and Cadet Chess Championships in Greece, came to a conclusion on Friday. A little less than half of the world, 91 nations, participated in the Championships. The youngest participant was a five-year-old girl who played in the Under-8 category, and the oldest were just under eighteen. Boys and girls played in separate divisions.

20131229chessDuring the last two rounds, leaders of the tournament rose and fell in unexpected ways. The boys’ Under-12 was blown wide open when leader Nodirbek Abdusattorov of Uzbekistan fell leaving ten players with medal chances. In the boys’ Under-16, an extraordinarily strong department, Zhandos Agmanov (2167) from Kazakhstan, led with a 6.5/8 score. He is ranked number 69, but his last eight opponents were rated at an average of 2372, higher than him. Similarly, Mahalakshmi M of India, is the biggest surprise of the girls’ Under-18 category.

She is ranked 32nd with a modest FIDE 2019, but she was excelling with a