Abdulla Gadimbayli is World Junior Chess Champion 2022

Azerbaijani players take all gold medals 2022 FIDE World Junior Championship. Govhar Beydullayeva won the World Girls U20 championsihp, while Abdulla Gadimbayli took titles in very close competitions in the open section.

The open event was a nail-biter until the very end. Adam Kozak (Hungary) was coming into the final round on 8/10, a half point ahead of Gadimbayli, with as many as nine players trailing the leader by a full point. Abdulla played a very exciting game with his compatriot Mahammad Nuradli that ended in a draw. Francesco Sonis (Italy) and Nikolozi Kacharava (Georgia) scored very important victories and caught up with Gadimbayli. Now all eyes were on the encounter between Leon Luke Mendoza and Adam Kozak (pictured below), in which the Hungarian needed just a draw to clinch the title. However, Adam did not manage to hold an inferior endgame down an exchange playing on a 30-second increment and threw in the towel on the move 83. As a result, five players tied for first place, with Abdulla Gadimbayli claiming gold thanks to slightly better Buchholz (just 0.5 points) over Adam Kozak, who had to settle for silver. The bronze medal goes to Nikolozi Kacharava.

1	IM	Gadimbayli Abdulla	AZE	2499	8
2	GM	Kozak Adam	HUN	2516	8
3	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	GEO	2512	8
4	GM	Sonis Francesco	ITA	2531	8
5	GM	Mendonca Leon Luke	IND	2558	8
6	GM	Esipenko Andrey	FID	2668	7.5
7	GM	Nesterov Arseniy	FID	2567	7.5
8	IM	Samunenkov Ihor	UKR	2473	7.5
9	GM	Petkov Momchil	BUL	2511	7.5
10	IM	Davtyan Artur	ARM	2517	7.5
11	GM	Muradli Mahammad	AZE	2550	7.5
12	GM	Svane Frederik	GER	2566	7
13	IM	Murzin Volodar	FID	2557	7
14	GM	Ivic Velimir	SRB	2553	7
15	GM	Batsuren Dambasuren	MGL	2522	7
16	IM	Stoyanov Tsvetan	BUL	2449	7
17	IM	Kosakowski Jakub	POL	2465	7
18	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	IND	2451	7
19	GM	Iniyan P	IND	2541	7
20	WGM	Zhu Jiner	CHN	2484	7
21	IM	Gorshtein Ido	ISR	2471	7
22	IM	Nogerbek Kazybek	KAZ	2467	7
23	GM	Blohberger Felix	AUT	2493	7
24	IM	Neelash Saha	IND	2446	7
25	FM	Isik Alparslan	TUR	2377	6.5
26	IM	Petriashvili Nikoloz	GEO	2428	6.5
27	IM	Barseghyan Armen Ar.	ARM	2402	6.5
28	FM	Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali	UZB	2345	6.5
29	IM	Manish Anto Cristiano F	IND	2332	6.5
30	IM	Horvath Dominik	AUT	2505	6.5
31	IM	Stefansson Vignir Vatnar	ISL	2471	6.5
32	IM	Seo Jung Min	SWE	2520	6.5
33	FM	Peyrer Konstantin	AUT	2402	6.5
34	GM	Budisavljevic Luka	SRB	2524	6.5
35	FM	Zemach Nadav	ISR	2293	6.5
36	IM	Gurel Ediz	TUR	2445	6.5
37	FM	Lumachi Gabriele	ITA	2387	6.5
38	IM	Parkhov Yair	ISR	2484	6.5
39	FM	Flores Quillas Diego Saul Rodri	PER	2291	6.5
40	FM	Ghimpu Samuel-Timotei	ROU	2434	6
41	FM	Rohith Krishna S	IND	2370	6
42	IM	Milikow Yoav	ISR	2412	6
43	IM	Vestby-Ellingsen Mads	NOR	2365	6
44	FM	Bournel Antoine	FRA	2402	6
45	FM	Stremavicius Pijus	LTU	2363	6
46	IM	Galaviz Medina Sion Radamantys	MEX	2345	6
47		Utsab Chatterjee	IND	2345	6
48	IM	Moksh Amit Doshi	IND	2430	6
49	IM	Harshavardhan G B	IND	2433	6
50	IM	Olsen Filip Boe	DEN	2433	6
51	FM	Oye-Stromberg Alexander	NOR	2233	6
52	IM	Baenziger Fabian	SUI	2439	6
53	FM	Droin Augustin	FRA	2416	5.5
54	FM	Sokolovsky Yahli	ISR	2416	5.5
55	FM	Mladek Richard	CZE	2371	5.5
56	FM	Jakab Bela	SVK	2353	5.5
57	IM	Ansat Aldiyar	KAZ	2262	5.5
58		Kozak Antoni	POL	2440	5.5
59	FM	Martins Bruno Andre Leite	POR	2306	5.5
60	IM	Veiga Jose Francisco R P Neves	POR	2409	5.5
61	IM	Boyer Mahel	FRA	2445	5.5
62	FM	Carlo Emanuele	ITA	2306	5.5
63	FM	Guz Ari	ISR	2305	5.5
64	FM	Atanasov Anthony	CAN	2148	5.5
65	IM	Siddharth Jagadeesh	SGP	2415	5.5
66	FM	Chukavin Kirill	EST	2384	5.5
67	IM	Gatineau Yovann	FRA	2375	5.5
	CM	Andreev Konstantin	ITA	2206	5.5
69		Hercegovac Neven	ITA	2175	5.5
70	FM	Nouri Alekhine	PHI	2251	5.5
71	IM	Raahul V S	IND	2333	5.5
72	FM	Yaniv Yuval	ISR	2359	5
73	FM	Lux Hugo De Melo	BRA	2309	5
74	CM	Avila Rodriguez Joshua Ad	MEX	2225	5
75	FM	Winkelman Albert	AUS	2229	5
76	CM	Tan Jun Ying	MAS	2189	5
77	FM	Milosevic Milos	SRB	2371	5
78	IM	Brahami Lamine	ALG	2188	5
79	WIM	Gaal Zsoka	HUN	2298	5
80	IM	Di Benedetto Edoardo	ITA	2396	5
81	FM	Vagman Roy	ISR	2274	5
82		Wartiovaara Oliver	FIN	2297	5
83	CM	Ballesteros Cardenas Leonardo	CHI	2121	5
84	FM	Bettalli Francesco	ITA	2267	5
85		Dimakis Stavros	GRE	1832	5
86		Gagic Milan A	SRB	2125	5
87		Pennica Andrea	ITA	2037	5
88	CM	Carroll Peter	IRL	2115	5
89		Nemeth Zalan	IRL	2247	4.5
90		Johannsson Birkir Isak	ISL	2165	4.5
91	FM	Dauw Sterre	BEL	2287	4.5
92		Asllani Dorian	SUI	2202	4.5
93		Van Der Merwe Alexander	RSA	1746	4.5
94		Candian Lorenzo	ITA	2022	4.5
95		Urbani Gabriel	ITA	2129	4.5
96		Karsten Jan	RSA	1985	4.5
97		Gov Guy	ISR	2121	4.5
98	IM	Ramoutar Alan-Safar	TTO	2449	4
99		Sitbon Itay	ISR	2133	4
100	IM	Kanyamarala Tarun	IRL	2407	4
101		Stankovic Dragan	BIH	2181	4
102		Cotic Borna	CRO	2133	4
103		Djurovic Peko	MNE	2084	4
104		Javornik Nik	SLO	2064	4
105		Tripodi Enzo	ITA	2113	4
106		De Ieso Lorenzo	ITA	1938	4
107		Stolyarsky Yegor	ISR	1987	3.5
108		Casadio Niccolo`	ITA	2201	3.5
109		Liloni Francesco Mattia	ITA	1876	3.5
110		Vairo Rocco Enrico	ITA	1960	3.5
111		Monferrato Rocco	URU	1563	3.5
112		Salem Muhsan Shuaib	UAE	1227	3.5
113		Momin Fayzan	PAK	1974	3
114		Porcu Riccardo	ITA	1759	3
115		Ghaith Saeed Alnuaimi	UAE	1269	3
116		Vivoli Alessandro	SMR	1555	3
117		Ahmed Younes Alkhemeiri	UAE	1139	3
118	FM	Cappelletto Joshuaede	ITA	2337	2.5
119		Persico Lorenzo	ITA	2007	2.5
120		Abdulla Younes Alkhemeiri	UAE	1405	1.5