From Legnano to Gandhinagar, India i World Under 20 Championships, organized by FIDE one of the crucial events of the chess season. We are talking about the Legnano area Simone Pozzari who just recently left Milan with the chess player Elisa Cassi. This important news was announced today, Saturday 1 June president of Asd Scacchi Legnanese Family Denis Soncin. «Among the 121 participants in the Open, the very young American Abhimanyu Mishra, born in 2009, stands out as first on the list, former Grand Master and regular guest of the super tournaments. Followed by the Hungarian Gleb Dudin and the Russian Aleksey Grebnev. Our Pozzari is 49th – explains Soncin proudly –. In the Women’s, the group of 101 is led, at least at the start, by the Indian Divya Deshmukh, followed by the Armenian Mariam Mkrtchyan and the Kazakh Liya Kurmangaliyeva. Cassi is theoretically 30th.”
The first round of play is scheduled for June 2nd at 11.30am Italian time, there are 11 shifts, with a day of rest set for June 8th. The last round on June 13th will be brought forward to 6.30 am Italian time. We will obviously give you frequent updates, including the sites where you can follow both the matches and the matches. «The Under 20 World Championships, divided, as usual, into two tournaments, one Open, the other Women’s, are an extraordinary testing ground for players, because historically they have always been won, or almost, by chess players who then went on to also established at the highest level – we read in a note issued by the Italian Chess Federation -. Suffice it to say that names such as Spassky, Kasparov, Jusupov, Kasparov, Anand, Aronian, Mamedyarov, Vachier-Lagrave stand out in the roll of honor, to name just a few examples. In the Women’s, however, the tournament was won by personalities such as Humpy Koneru, Nana Dzagnidze, Anna Muzychuk, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Natalya Buksa and others of the same level. Last year, we remember, in Mexico City the winners were the Frenchman Marc’Andria Maurizzi, one of the finest players in transalpine and European chess, and the Argentinean Candela Francisco Guecamburu.”
