world quli

[Ingo_Zachos]

Tanya Zaitseva (Ukraine) wins World Championship Match for Juniors by 12-4!
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In a match that was played for the best of 10 games,Elia won the first game and went ahead, but after a hard fought draw Tanya fought back and won game three. After game four also ended in a hard fought draw, Tanya took the lead by wining the fifth game.
Tanya went on to take the last two games to clinch the title by 12-4, winning five games, losing one, with two games drawn.

This is the first time a girl wins the junior title, and the first time the title went to the Ukraine. Congratulations
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Also congratulations to Elia, who according to referee Alex Moiseyev deserved to win more then one game, but maybe next time he will prevail.


Games:

[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 1"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Elia Cantatore"]
[White "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. 11-15 22-18 2. 15x22 25x18 3. 8-11 29-25 4. 4-8 25-22 5. 12-16 24-20 6. 8-12 27-24 7.
10-14 24-19 8. 7-10 28-24 9. 3-7 32-28 10. 9-13 18x9 11. 5x14 22-18 12. 13-17 18x9 13. 6x13
21x14 14. 10x17 31-27 15. 17-22 26x17 16. 13x22 19-15 17. 11x18 20x11 18. 7x16 23x14 19.
1-6 24-20 20. 16-19 20-16 21. 6-10 14x7 22. 2x20 27-23 23. 19x26 30x23 24. 22-26 23-18 25.
26-31 18-14 26. 12-16 14-10 27. 16-19 10-6 28. 20-24 6-1 29. 24-27 1-6 30. 27-32 6-10 31.
32-27 10-6 32. 27-23 6-10 33. 19-24 28x19 34. 23x16 1-0

[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 2"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[White "Elia Cantatore"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1. 11-15 22-18 2. 15x22 25x18 3. 12-16 18-14 4. 10x17 21x14 5. 9x18 23x14 6. 16-20 29-25
7. 8-11 25-22 8. 4-8 24-19 9. 6-10 27-23 10. 10x17 22x13 11. 8-12 23-18 12. 5-9 13x6 13.
1x10 26-23 14. 11-15 18x11 15. 7x16 30-26 16. 3-7 26-22 17. 10-14 31-27 18. 7-10 28-24 19.
2-7 22-18 20. 14-17 18-15 21. 10-14 15-11 22. 7-10 11-7 23. 17-21 7-2 24. 21-25 2-6 25.
25-30 6x15 26. 14-17 15-18 27. 30-25 19-15 28. 16-19 23x16 29. 12x28 15-11 30. 17-22 18-15
31. 22-26 27-24 32. 20x27 32x23 33. 26-31 23-19 34. 31-27 19-16 35. 27-24 16-12 36. 28-32
11-7 37. 32-28 15-10 38. 24-19 7-2 39. 25-22 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 3"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Elia Cantatore"]
[White "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 9-14 25-22 3. 8-11 17-13 4. 11-16 24-20 5. 3-8 20x11 6. 7x16 22-17 7.
16-19 23x16 8. 12x19 27-23 9. 8-12 23x16 10. 12x19 26-23 11. 19x26 30x23 12. 4-8 32-27 13.
8-12 29-25 14. 2-7 25-22 15. 15-19 23x16 16. 12x19 27-24 17. 19-23 22-18 18. 5-9 18-15 19.
10x19 17x3 20. 9-14 24x15 21. 6-9 13x6 22. 1x19 3-7 23. 14-18 7-10 24. 18-22 10-15 25.
23-26 15x24 26. 26-30 21-17 27. 22-25 17-13 28. 25-29 13-9 29. 29-25 9-6 30. 25-22 6-1 31.
22-25 24-19 32. 25-22 19-23 33. 30-25 28-24 0-1


[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 4"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[White "Elia Cantatore"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1. 11-15 23-19 2. 7-11 22-17 3. 11-16 26-23 4. 8-11 17-14 5. 9x18 23x7 6. 3x10 25-22 7.
16x23 27x18 8. 12-16 24-20 9. 10-14 18x9 10. 5x14 30-26 11. 4-8 32-27 12. 6-10 27-24 13.
2-6 22-17 14. 8-12 17-13 15. 14-18 26-22 16. 18x25 29x22 17. 10-14 22-17 18. 15-18 17x10
19. 6x15 21-17 20. 18-22 17-14 21. 22-25 14-10 22. 1-5 10-7 23. 25-30 7-2 24. 30-25 2-7
25. 25-22 7-2 26. 22-18 2-7 27. 18-22 7-2 28. 22-17 2-7 29. 17-21 7-2 30. 21-25 2-7 31.
25-22 7-2 1/2-1/2


[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 5"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Elia Cantatore"]
[White "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 15-19 24x15 3. 10x19 23x16 4. 12x19 25-22 5. 8-11 27-23 6. 4-8 23x16 7.
11x20 22-18 8. 9-14 17x10 9. 6x22 26x17 10. 5-9 29-25 11. 8-11 25-22 12. 11-15 30-26 13.
9-13 17-14 14. 15-18 22x15 15. 7-10 15x6 16. 2x18 28-24 17. 20x27 32x14 18. 3-7 21-17 19.
13x22 26x17 20. 7-11 14-10 21. 11-15 17-14 22. 15-19 31-27 0-1

[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 6"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[White "Elia Cantatore"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. 11-15 22-18 2. 15x22 25x18 3. 8-11 29-25 4. 9-13 25-22 5. 5-9 24-20 6. 10-15 27-24 7.
6-10 23-19 8. 1-5 26-23 9. 9-14 18x9 10. 5x14 31-26 11. 11-16 20x11 12. 7x16 30-25 13.
14-18 23x7 14. 16x30 32-27 15. 3x10 27-23 16. 4-8 23-18 17. 8-11 24-19 18. 15x24 28x19 19.
11-16 18-15 20. 16x23 15x6 21. 2x9 1-0

[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 7"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Elia Cantatore"]
[White "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[Result "0-1"]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 17-13 3. 9-14 25-22 4. 5-9 22-17 5. 11-16 24-19 6. 15x24 28x19 7.
4-8 29-25 8. 8-11 25-22 9. 11-15 32-28 10. 15x24 27x11 11. 7x16 23-19 12. 16x23 26x19 13.
2-7 30-26 14. 7-11 26-23 15. 3-8 22-18 16. 11-16 18-15 17. 16-20 31-27 18. 12-16 19x3 19.
10x26 17x10 20. 6x15 13x6 21. 1x10 3-7 22. 15-19 7x14 23. 26-31 14-10 24. 31x24 10-15 25.
19-23 28x19 0-1



[Event "2017 WCDF World Youth Match G. 8"]
[Date "2017-08-04"]
[Black "Tetiana Zaitseva"]
[White "Elia Cantatore"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. 11-15 22-17 2. 8-11 23-19 3. 11-16 24-20 4. 16x23 27x11 5. 7x16 20x11 6. 3-8 11-7 7.
2x11 25-22 8. 11-15 17-13 9. 9-14 22-17 10. 12-16 29-25 11. 8-11 28-24 12. 16-20 31-27 13.
4-8 26-23 14. 5-9 30-26 15. 11-16 32-28 16. 8-12 25-22 17. 1-5 1-0

[George Hay]

Congratulations to Lubabalo Kondlo of South Africa for winning the Gold Medal and right to challenge Michele Borghetti for the GAYP World Championship in 2018,
and that after winning the ACF Masters National!

Congratulations to Mr. Alex of the USA for winning the Silver Medal, and I am sure the Russian Bear with the
Heart of a Lion can't wait for the 3-Move Qualifier in 2018!

Congratulations to Melikaya Nonyukela of South Africa for winning the Bronze Medal with 20 points to finish in the top three!

Congratulations to Nadiya Chyzevska of Ukraine for winning the Gold Medal and regaining the Women's GAYP World Championship!
Congratulations to Tanya Zaitseva of Ukraine for winning the Silver Medal, and also the Youth GAYP World Championship!
Congratulations to Wynelle Neverson of Barbados for winning the Bronze Medal with 11 points!

Congratulations to Kim Willis for your election to the WCDF Board of Directors.

A special thank you to Ingo Zachos who's commentary and timely updates are most appreciated!

--George Hay

[rich beckwith]

Ingo pointed out to me that Game 6 above is a red win (not draw), which alters final score to 5-1 with 2 draws.
I also wish to thank our bilingual referee Alex Moiseyev for taking role of referee for a day and for helping to plan match.

[Alex_Moiseyev]

It was my pleasure and great honor to perform duties of referee of this historic match ! I want to remind you that after 4 games score was even (!) - 1-1-2. Perhaps most difficult and challenging part of my job was - keeping a "poker face"

I can confirm that almost in each game at some point both players had a win. It was a real swing. Tanya had more experience (she is Master by Russian checkers) and that was probably most decided factor.

There is a winner in this match, but there are no no losers! Elia shall work on checkers and will have a bright future and long, successful career - I am pretty sure about this. He may not have at the moment good knowledge's or cross aboard skills, but definitely he has a warriour spirit!

AM