WGM Guo Qi is the World Junior Chess Champion for girls

WGM Guo Qi is the World Junior Chess Champion for girls

Four players finished with 9,5/13 after the last round of the World Junior Chess Championship for girls in Athens, Greece. However, with best tiebreak was WGM Guo Qi, ahead of WGM Nastassia Ziaziulkina, and IM Anastasia Bodnaruk, while WFM Aulia Medina Warda remained out of the medals.

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More about Guo Qi
Guo Qi, born in 1995, is one of the young chess talents of China. She first appeared on the FIDE rating list in 2008 after playing 16 rated games and getting initial rating of 2027.

Her star starting rising in 2009 at the 8th Asian Continental Championship, where her talent was obvious to the professionals. Guo Qi is especially active since November 2010, while in the Chinese Chess Championship in 2011 he managed to score wins against strong players as Huang Qian, Ju Wenjun, etc. In the Chinese league the same year she continued the great performance, defeating Harika Dronavalli among others.

Based on this, Quo Qi was awarded the Women Grand Master 2nd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2011, 4-7 June 2011, Al Ain, UAE.

Currently Guo Qi is number 3 in the world U18 and in the female top 100 list with rating 2358. She is certainly going to advance based on the rating points won at the World junior Chess Championship.

Top finishers

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1
1	WGM	Guo Qi	CHN	2358	9.5	27845
2	WGM	Ziaziulkina Nastassia	BLR	2342	9.5	27790
3	IM	Bodnaruk Anastasia	RUS	2414	9.5	27475
4	WFM	Medina Warda Aulia	INA	2218	9.5	26562
5	WIM	Arabidze Meri	GEO	2379	9.0	27533
6	WGM	Cori T Deysi	PER	2413	8.5	27647
7	WIM	Bulmaga Irina	ROU	2380	8.5	27570
8	WIM	Sihite Chelsie Monica	INA	2162	8.5	26794
9		Wang Jue	CHN	2355	8.5	26777
10	WIM	Abdulla Khayala	AZE	2217	8.5	25626
11	WIM	Kulkarni Bhakti	IND	2159	8.0	26927
12	WGM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	RUS	2361	8.0	26598
13	WIM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	COL	2196	8.0	26171
14	WFM	Osmak Iulija	UKR	2171	8.0	25637