| 1st World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad: Batatais 2001 |
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| 1st World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Date: | 18th - 26th September 2001 |
| City: | Batatais, Brazil |
| Venue: | Batatais Physical Culture Centre |
| Tournament Director: | Sr. Ramón Arnal Carrasco Jr. (BRA) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Olyntho Meirelles (BRA) |
| Teams participating: | 8 (incl. Brazil "B") |
| Players participating: | 38 |
| Games played: | 112 |
| Competition format: | Four board round robin. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Game points |
| Time control: | N/A |
| Website: |
http://www.cbx.org.br/batataismundial.htm (cached) http://www.ajedrez-de-estilo.com.ar/ade/america/am01s291.htm (cached) |
| Downloadable game file: | 01u16-ol.zip |
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The 2001 Children's Olympiad was the first one organized exclusively by FIDE, with no support from Mr. Bjelica and Mr. Karpov. Only 8 teams competed in Batatais, of which the hosts fielded two teams and only three teams came outside of South America. The competition was poor as only three players were rated +2200. Sweden (2187) were top seeded ahead of Chile. As it happened the Swedes took the gold with ease but the Chileans came just in fourth place. Brazil took silver ahead of surprise South Africa (their reserve scored 4/4!). Sweden gave best performance in round three as they trounced Chile 4-0. |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Di Berardino, Diego Rafael | BRA | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| 2. | Tikkanen, Hans | SWE | 4½ | 6 | 75.0 |
| 3. | Adib, Hugo Santiago | URU | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Tonoli, Benjamin | BEL | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 2. | Díaz, Juan | CHI | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| 3. | Wallin, Dennis | SWE | 4 | 6 | 66.7 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Mekhitarian, Krikor | BRA | 6 | 7 | 85.7 |
| 2. | Mohammadi, Amir | SWE | 4 | 5 | 80.0 |
| 3. | Van der Merwe, Pieter | RSA | 5 | 7 | 71.4 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Ong, Kezli | SWE | 5 | 6 | 83.3 |
| 2. | Hurtado, Rodrigo | CHI | 4½ | 7 | 64.3 |
| 3. | Pistorius, Riani | RSA | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |
| 3. | Cominato Neto, José Luís | BRA | 3 | 5 | 60.0 |
| no. | name | code | pts | gms | % |
| 1. | Visser, Jan | RSA | 4 | 4 | 100.0 |
| 2. | Hammar, Ulf | SWE | 4 | 5 | 80.0 |
| 3. | Ibáñez Iglesias, Marcelo | URU | 2½ | 4 | 62.5 |