Claudia and Sophia from Germany draw in the 3rd round of the 2010 WYCC

Claudia V. Munoz – Mother of WCM Munoz of Team USA
2010 World Youth Chess Championship in Greece
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AFTER ROUND TWO - After 3.5 hours and 36 moves with white, both Claudia and Sophia Schmalhorst (FIDE 1850) of Germany agreed to a draw placing her with 1.5 points of two. We consider this to be an excellent start for this World Youth Chess Championship.

The day started for us early and somewhat concerned because we had sever internet problems due to the amount of people using the Internet at that hour. We were able to download the scouting report my husband had sent on Sophia, proving to be an excellent guide on Claudia selecting a particular line to play.

Later, she went to her coaching session with International Master Armen Ambartsoumian in order for him to go over our scouting report.

We understood that Sophia has had about 100 FIDE rated games and had been to several World Youth Chess Championships in Ecuador and Vietnam, so we knew she was facing a formidable opponent.

Nevertheless, we praise God for providing us the opportunity as a family to experience this moment.

Tomorrow, round 3 at 9:00 a.m. U.S. Central Standard Time.

Claudia will face Sophia Schmalhorst of Germany in round 2 of the 2010 WYCC in Porto Carras, Greece

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Today at 9:00 a.m. U.S. Central Standard Time, WCM Claudia Muñoz of Team USA will facing Sophia Shmalhorst of Germany on board 20. Claudia will be playing white. With yesterdays win over a representative of the Netherlands, Claudia jumped from the 79th position to the 38th in the standings.

We have included some information about Germany for our readers.

"As Europe's largest economy and second most populous nation (after Russia), Germany is a key member of the continent's economic, political, and defense organizations. European power struggles immersed Germany in two devastating World Wars in the first half of the 20th century and left the country occupied by the victorious Allied powers of the US, UK, France, and the Soviet Union in 1945.

With the advent of the Cold War, two German states were formed in 1949: the western Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the eastern German Democratic Republic (GDR). The democratic FRG embedded itself in key Western economic and security organizations, the EC, which became the EU, and NATO, while the Communist GDR was on the front line of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact.

The decline of the USSR and the end of the Cold War allowed for German unification in 1990. Since then, Germany has expended considerable funds to bring Eastern productivity and wages up to Western standards. In January 1999, Germany and 10 other EU countries introduced a common European exchange currency, the euro."

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html

30 of 40 Team USA players scored in Round 1 action yesterday

2010 World Youth Chess Championship
Porto Carras, Greece

The first round was benevolent for TEAM USA as 30 of its 40 members scored at least a full point or a half point in yesterday's action. Today round will start at 4:00 p.m. local time, 9:00 U.S. Central Standard Time.


Round 1 Results for Team USA

No.Ini.	0	Nombre	Elo	FED	1	Pts.	Rk.	Grupo
56		Kumar Aravind	0	USA	1	1,0	29	Boys U08
62		Liang Awonder	0	USA	1	1,0	30	Boys U08
87		Praveen Balakrishnan	0	USA	1	1,0	36	Boys U08
104		Taghizadeh Rayan	0	USA	½	0,5	69	Boys U08
1		Sevian Samuel	2105	USA	1	1,0	1	Boys U10
16	FM	He Tommy O	1830	USA	1	1,0	9	Boys U10
19		Xiong Jeffrey	1824	USA	1	1,0	12	Boys U10
24		Panchanatham Vignesh	1803	USA	0	0,0	96	Boys U10
43		Chiang Jonathan	1714	USA	½	0,5	71	Boys U10
150		Wheeler Cameron	0	USA	1	1,0	62	Boys U10
5		Troff Kayden W	2216	USA	1	1,0	5	Boys U12
12		Williams Justus D	2155	USA	1	1,0	10	Boys U12
14		Wu Christopher	2138	USA	0	0,0	95	Boys U12
20		Colas Joshua	2068	USA	½	0,5	66	Boys U12
24		Chandran Kapil	2058	USA	1	1,0	19	Boys U12
31		Viswanadha Kesav	2017	USA	½	0,5	68	Boys U12
79		Lin Dachey	1805	USA	0	0,0	101	Boys U12
119		Beilin Allan	0	USA	0	0,0	132	Boys U12
25		Adelberg David	2201	USA	1	1,0	20	Boys U14
46		Shetty Atulya	2092	USA	1	1,0	35	Boys U14
26	FM	Zierk Steven C	2391	USA	1	1,0	19	Boys U18
58		Haskel Jeffrey	2229	USA	0	0,0	70	Boys U18
4	WFM	Wang Annie	0	USA	1	1,0	2	Girls U08
34		Joanna Liu	0	USA	1	1,0	17	Girls U08
53		Nguyen Emily	0	USA	1	1,0	26	Girls U08
63		Ramesh Kaavya	0	USA	0	0,0	70	Girls U08
41		Devina Sevagharan	0	USA	½	0,5	51	Girls U10
77		Palakollu Samritha	0	USA	1	1,0	34	Girls U10
88		Singh Reva	0	USA	1	1,0	37	Girls U10
104		Zlotchevski Nicole	0	USA	1	1,0	47	Girls U10
9		Hua Margaret	1943	USA	1	1,0	6	Girls U12
59	WFM	Liao Simone	1673	USA	1	1,0	45	Girls U12
62		Oreshko Mariya	1651	USA	0	0,0	75	Girls U12
81		Dong Alice	0	USA	0	0,0	89	Girls U12
112		Virkud Apurva	0	USA	0	0,0	114	Girls U12
29	WCM	Chiang Sarah	1864	USA	1	1,0	18	Girls U14
79	WCM	Munoz Claudia	0	USA	1	1,0	38	Girls U14
95		Regam Jessica	0	USA	½	0,5	58	Girls U14
46		Matlin Anna	1923	USA	1	1,0	39	Girls U16
37		Datta Anjali	2025	USA	0	0,0	45	Girls U18

Claudia wins against the Netherlands in round 1 of the 2010 WYCC in Porto Carras, Greece

Claudia V. Munoz – Mother of WCM Munoz – Team USA
2010 World Youth Chess Championship in Greece

AFTER THE FIRST ROUND – After a 4-hour, 40 move game against Catheleijne Sanders of the Netherlands, Claudia won her first round game playing black. Our day started like any other day. We woke up early and exercised followed by breakfast. My husband called us at noon in order to inform Claudia who he thought she was going to play. He was not wrong being that the pairings were not yet published.

We prayed and read the Bible, which is part of our mental and emotional training and then proceeded to the tournament hall. In the morning we were really blessed as we saw a RAINBOW, it has a special significance for our family and it really made our day.Once the first round started we knew it was time for Claudia to take that step of faith and continue on her journey. She took 45 minutes just for the first 15 moves. Fours later, on the 40th move she won her first World Youth Chess Championship point.

I was standing outside the tournament hall with the mother of Justus Williams when I saw her come my way.

She gave me thumbs up and then did a little jump as we hugged.

We were so happy!

We know it is only one point, but at this level one must savor every blessing from above as this tournament will be long, but we know God will give us temperance to live through this.

Due to technical issues beyond our control we have returned to our blog until further notice

ChessCampeona Editorial Council
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Due to technical difficulties beyond our control, we will be relocating our operations back to our two blogs until we iron out some technical aspects.

For our English language blog: www.claudiachess.blogspot.com,

For our Spanish language blog: www.chesscampeona.blogspot.com,

Both of these blogs were in operation before we relocated in May 2010 to this site. As soon as we reorganize our technical issues we will return here, as for now, we will be publishing continuing news as we always have done before on these two blogs.

Thank you for your support.

This blog will cease to operate tonight at midnight as we will move to our new site - www.chesscampeona.com

In our 11-month and 23rd day of existance, this blog will cease to operate at 12:00 a.m. tonight. Both of our sites, English and Spanish Language, will move to its new home, www.chesscampeona.com, starting Tuesday May 18, 2010. The following pictures illustrates our new format. If you notice there are two flags on the top right corner of the new site. When you click on the American Flag, the site will take you to our English section, when you click on the Mexican Flag, you will be transferred to the Spanish section.

This is a new format for bilingual and bicultural chess players, we are the first of our kind.

Two cultures, two languages, one result - www.chesscampeona.com,

Chess Campeona, Claudia, is on FACEBOOK

As the clock ticks and this blog is getting closer to its shutdown period, our new site, that will go online on May 18th at midnight, www.chesscampeona.com, has a FACEBOOK page already.

We ask our readers to please sign in at the following link:


http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001092471551&v=wall&ref=profile,


or simply in FACEBOOK search for ¨CHESS CAMPEONA¨ and sign up. Readers in both blogs are signing up at this moment.

The new image of WCM Claudia Muñoz in her new website in 4-days

We introduce to you, Claudia´s new image with her new website, which will be online May 18, 2010, www.chesscampeona.com,

A totally different format since it will be groundbreaking in both English language and Spanish language chess. When the address is inputted, the website will appear.

By clicking on the American flag, the entire site will be in English for the United States, with topics of importance to american chess.

By clicking on the Mexican flag, the entire site will be in Spanish for Mexico and Latin America, with topics of importance for mexican chess.

Two languages, two cultures, one result - ChessCampeona.

In 5-days this blog will be moving to its new home www.chesscampeona.com

Monday will the be the last day that this blog is operational. On Tuesday, both this blog and our Spanish language blog, www.chesscampeona.blogspot.com, will merge into one website BUT WITH A TWIST.

When our visitors go to our new home, www.chesscampeona.com, two flags will appear, the American is for English and the Mexican for Spanish. This way we will have both sites in one location and reap the rewards of a large visitor count, as our Spanish site brings close to 100,000 visitors per year.

This new move represents the duality of Claudia, American and Mexican heritage in one.

Congratulations to World Chess Champion Anand on the retention of his world title

We congratulate World Champion Anand for the retention of his title in Sofia, Bulgaria. We recognize that both Anand and Topalov gave all they had in this Championship match.