Samvel Ter-Sahakyan becomes world champion

Samvel Ter-Sahakyan drew with Debashis in the last, 9th round, U18 group, at the World Youth Chess Championships in Caldas Novas, Brazil. Samvel became world champion, scoring 8 points. Fedoseev and Debashis were one point behind him and finished 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Robert Aghasaryan drew with Rosen and finished 14th with 6 points.

In U16 group, Hovhannes Gabuzyan beat Kadric and Karen H. Grigoryan lost to Pouya. Gabuzyan finished 4th with 6.5 points and Grigoryan – 14th with 6 points.