Eleven-year-old Sina Movahed of Iran won the Asian Amateur Open Online Chess Championship alone with 8 points out of 9 rounds in the tournament hosted by the Oman Chess Committee under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation 12-18 November 2021 on Tornelo. A total of 175 players from 22 countries competed in the 9-round Swiss. See results of women’s division.
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Thirteen-year-old Sai Surapaneni Chidvilash of India won the silver with 7.5 points, ahead by tie break over Allan Pason, 24, of the Philippines who won bronze.
Here are top placers:
Movahed Sina won last year the Under-10 division of the FIDE World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships 2020. At the age of 6, he saw a brochure of the Hamidavi Chess Schools and asked his father to enrol him. Hamidavi was his first coach. As he improved he was coached by FM Asgari who saw him become Asian Champion. Today he is coached by GM Darini and GM Idani and studies chess 6-7 hours a day and practices online. Here are some of his previous successes:
1- Best Under 14 player in International Paytakht Cup, Tehran 2018
2- Gold Medal Iran Championship Under 08 – Standard, Rapid & Blitz 2018
3- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship- Standard – Sri Lanka 2019
4- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship – Online 2020
5- Gold Medal Under 10 World Championship – Online 2020
Here is Movahed’s last round game with co-leader Tuguldur Soninbayar of Mongolia where Movahed unleashes 14… Ng4+! to emerge with the Bishop pair and win on move 52.
