Kenya records second victory at World Youth Chess Championships
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Kaloki Zuri, the National Junior Ladies Champion rated 1624 registered Kenya’s first win in the tournament on Thursday
A day after his sister picked Kenya’s first win in the on-going World Youth chess championships in Brazil, Kaloki Hawi is the second Kenyan to win.
He registered Kenya’s second win on Friday afternoon after edging out Tao Oliviera from Argentina.
It was an expected result as the Kenyan is highly rated at 1872 and was playing against an opponent rated 1503.
Kaloki Zuri, the National Junior Ladies Champion rated 1624 registered Kenya’s first win in the tournament on Thursday.
Zuri beat Estonia’s Karolina Karba in the second round of the 13-day tournament. The Kenyan champion went into the game on the back of her first round loss to Albanian Woman Candidate Master (WCM).
Another positive result for team Kenya was by Daniel Baraka Simiyu who drew Justiniano Flores from Bolivia.
Simiyu rated 1565 will be proud of his results considering that he was taking on an opponent who is rated more than 300 points above him.
He is the second lowest rated player in the boys under-16 category and only better than Dos Santos Felippe Gabriel from Brazil.
The Mbooni High School student is playing in his first international tournament. He took up the sport just six months ago and has already proven that he has what it takes.
Participants from Asia and Eastern Europe are dominating the different categories of the competition.
In the under-14 category boys section, Dinh Nho Kiet from Vietnam has maximum points after three rounds.
Also with maximum points are Sowinski Povel from Poland as well as Gieslak Patyrk.
Kenyans Francis Njenga, Jabu Gachwe and Wesley Gitau are yet to win any match. In the girls under-14 category, Mgeladze Kesarik from Georgia has won all her matches and so has Poland’s Smietanska Viktoria and Attynbek Aiarv from Kazakhstan.
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Norway’s Kualoy Aksel is topping in the under-16 open with Kenyan Mathenge Gichugu still to get his first point in the event.
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