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Participants
IM Shevchenko Kirill 
Born 2002
Current Rating – 2531
Ukrainian Champion in the categories U8 (2010), U14 (2015).
2010: 3rd place in the World Youth U8 & European U8 Chess Championships.
2011: Winner of the European Blitz U10 Championship.
2012: 3rd place in European U10 Chess Championship.
2017: 1st place in the Pfalz - Open Tournament (A-tournament) in Germany.
He has scored one Grandmaster norm.
IM Hakobyan Aram 
Born 2001
Current Rating – 2457
2013: Winner of the World Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2014: 2nd place in the European Youth U14 Chess Championship.
2015: 3rd place in the European Youth U14 Chess Championship.
Four-time Armenian Youth Champion in the categories U10 (2011), U12
(2013), U14 (2015) and U18 (2016).
Lobanov Sergei 
Born 2001
Current Rating – 2457
2011: 2nd place in the Russian Youth U11 Chess Championship.
2013: 3rd place in the World Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2014: 3rd place in the Russian Youth U13 Chess Championship.
2015: 1st place in the European Youth U14 Chess Championship.
2016: 3rd place in the Russian U17 Blitz Championship.
2017: 2nd place in the 1st stage of the European Youth Grand Prix.
IM Sargsyan Shant 
Born 2002
Current Rating - 2431
2010: 2nd place in the European Youth U8 Chess Championship.
2012: 2nd place in the World Youth U10 Chess Championship.
2014: 4th place in the World Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2016: 4th place in the World Youth U14 Chess Championship.
Four-time Armenian Champion in the categories U10(2012), U14(2013), U12(2014), U14(2016).
2015: 1st place in the Yerevan Men's Championship.
2016: 3rd place in the World Youth Chess Olympiad.
IM Pultinevicius Paulius 
Born 2001
Current Rating - 2387
2014: Champion of Lithuania in the age group U14.
2015: Champion of Lithuania in the age group U14.
2015: 13th place in the World Youth U14 Chess Championship.
2016: 15th place in the World Youth U16 Chess Championship.
2017: Winner of the Lithuanian Youth U16 Chess Championship.
FM Kaasen Tor Fredrik 
Born 2002
Current Rating - 2371
Tor Fredrik Kaasen has 2 IM norms, one in Oslo Chess Festival 2016 and one in Kragerø Resort Chess 2017.
He is the third youngest Norwegian to have achieved an IM norm after Magnus Carlsen (2001) and Aryan Tari (2013).
Tor Fredrik Kaasen became the Norwegian Champion U14 in 2015 in Bergen, Norway.
FM Pogosyan Stefan
Born 2004
Current Rating - 2368
1st prize holder in the 8th Russian Festival of Sports.
2015: Winner of the Russian Rapid U13 Chess Championship.
2016: 1st place in the Moscow Rapid Chess Championship.
2016: 2nd place in the Russian Youth Chess Championship.
2016: Winner of European Rapid U15 Tournament.
2017: 3rd place in the Russian Youth and Rapid U13 Chess Championship.
FM Shubin Kirill
Born 2003
Current Rating - 2359
2013: 3rd places in the Russian Junior and Blitz U11 Championships.
2013, 2017: 2nd place in the Russian Rapid Junior Boys U11 and U15 Championships respectively.
2014: 1st place in the World Schools U11 Rapid Championship Open. Bronze medallist of the 15th ASEAN + Age-Group Open Chess Championship (U12) and winner of the 15th ASEAN + Age-Group Rapid Chess Championship (U12).
2015: 1st place in the 25th European Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2016: 3st place in the Russian Team Championship among the team of Petrovskaya Ladya.
2017: 1st place in the 1st stage of the European Youth Grand Prix.
Nesterov Arseniy
Born 2003
Current Rating - 2350
Champion of Russia in the age group U15.
2013: Twice 2nd prize holder of the European Youth and Rapid Championships.
2014: Winner of the Moscow Open.
2016: Winner of the World Chess Composition U10 Championship.
2017: Champion of the Russian Youth and Blitz U15 Championships.
Winner of the Russian Team Championship.
FM Gharibyan Mamikon
Born 2004
Current Rating - 2346
2012: Armenian Youth U8 Champion and 3rd prize holder in the group U10.
2013: 1st place in Nona Gaprindashvili Cup Boys U10 age group.
2014: Armenian Youth U10 Champion
2014: Winner of the European Youth U10 Chess Championship.
2016: Winner of the European Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2016: 2nd prize holder of the Armenian Youth U12 Chess Championship.
FM Zarubitski Viachaslau 
Born 2002
Current Rating – 2311
2012: 1st place in the European Blitz U10 & 3rd place in the European Rapid U10 Chess Championships.
2014: 2nd place in the World Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2014: 3rd place in the European Youth U12 Chess Championship.
2015: 1st place in the European Rapid U14 Chess Championship.
2016: 2nd place in the European Youth & Rapid U14 Chess Championships.
2017: 1st place in the European Rapid U16 Chess Championship .
FM Kacharava Nikolozi 
Born 2004
Current Rating - 2206
Five-time Champion of Georgia in the age groups U8(2011), U10(2013, 2014), U12(2015) and U14(2017).
2011: Winner of the International Chess Tournament “Nana Aleksandria’s Cup” in the age groups U8.
2012: 2nd place in the European Youth U8 Chess Championship.
2014: 3rd place in the European Youth U10 Chess Championship.
2014: Winner of the European Chess Composition U10 Championship & prize holder of the World Youth U10 Chess Championship.
2014: Winner of Stepan Avagyan Memorial in the age group U10 held in Jermuk, Aremnia.
Ratings as of October 1, 2017.
