Soviet Team: A.Yusupov, S.Dolmatov, E.Kengis, A.Mikhalchishin, A.Ivanov, A.Kochiev, V.Tukmakov (coach)
| 2nd World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship: Mexico City 1980 |
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| 2nd World Youth U26 Team Chess Championship (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 17nd August - 5th September 1980 |
| City: | Mexico City |
| Venue: | Centro Asturiano |
| Organizers: | CREA (Consejo Nacional de Cursos para la Atención de la Juventud) and FENAMAC (Mexican Chess Federation) |
| Technical Director: | IA Carlos Encinas Ferrer (MEX) |
| Chief Arbiter: | Mr. Gabriel Pérez Pantoja (MEX) Deputy Arbiter: Mr. Raúl García Guerrero (MEX) |
| Teams participating: | 25 (incl. Mexico "B"; Indonesia were seeded in group 5 but did not arrive) |
| Players participating: | 143 (incl. 5 GMs, 12 IMs and 1 FM) |
| Games played: | 640 |
| Competition format: | Two stage four board round robin. Five preliminary groups of five teams each. Results from preliminaries were not carried over to the finals. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points; 2. Match points; 3. Sonneborn-Berger |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Downloadable game file: | 80wtch-u26.zip (only ca. 20% games are in there) |
| Special thanks to Carlos Encinas Ferrer for providing tournament bulletin. | |
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| bd | name | flag | code | fin. | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Sisniega, Marcel |  |
MEX | B | 8½ | 9 | 94.4 |
| 2. | IM Dolmatov, Sergei |  |
URS | A | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 3. | Henley, Ronald |  |
USA | A | 9 | 11 | 81.8 |
| 4. | GM Mikhalchishin, Adrian | |
URS | A | 8 | 9 | 88.9 |
| 1 res. | Ivanov, Alexander | |
URS | A | 6 | 7 | 85.7 |
| 2 res. | Ruíz, Guillermo | |
MEX | B | 5½ | 7 | 78.6 |