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The event is taking place in Maribor, Slovenia, from November 7th (arrival) through November 19th 2012 (departure). A total of 89 young talented US chessplayers are participating in this event which includes Sections in under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old – open and girls. Find the list of USA Players below.  Be sure to check back for more updates!

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List of USA Players

Number, Flag, Player, FIDE Chess Profile, Country, Rating, Birth Year, Section

1418			Perez Robert M	2035251	USA	2355	1995	U18-Open
872		FM	Troff Kayden W	2047896	USA	2350	1998	U14-Open
546			Sevian Samuel	2040506	USA	2347	2000	U12-Open
880			Gu Christopher	2059460	USA	2283	1998	U14-Open
1178			Brown Michael William	2037602	USA	2276	1997	U16-Open
1184			Vibbert Sean	2030292	USA	2255	1996	U16-Open
547		FM	Xiong Jeffrey	2047640	USA	2252	2000	U12-Open
886			Wu Christopher	2040875	USA	2239	1998	U14-Open
890			Williams Justus D	2049929	USA	2230	1998	U14-Open
1443			Fisher William	2040794	USA	2225	1994	U18-Open
550			Wheeler Cameron	2060531	USA	2149	2000	U12-Open
910			Chandran Kapil	2034077	USA	2096	1998	U14-Open
555			Chiang Jonathan	2010801	USA	2096	2000	U12-Open
1300		WCM	Chiang Sarah	2010810	USA	2088	1997	U16-Girls
913			Bora Safal	2066149	USA	2087	1998	U14-Open
227			Balakrishnan Praveen	2064871	USA	2083	2002	U10-Open
559			Feng Roland	2060086	USA	2080	2000	U12-Open
1534		WCM	Matlin Anna	2035790	USA	2064	1995	U18-Girls
563			Ludwig John G	2075512	USA	2055	2000	U12-Open
565			Moy Kevin	2081229	USA	2052	2000	U12-Open
566		FM	He Tommy O	2036304	USA	2050	2000	U12-Open
569			Pillai Kadhir A	2053551	USA	2020	2000	U12-Open
572			Panchanatham Vignesh	2060523	USA	2012	2000	U12-Open
230		FM	Liang Awonder	2056437	USA	2006	2003	U10-Open
1052		WFM	Ding Kimberly	2031108	USA	1999	1999	U14-Girls
575			Sheng Joshua	2057360	USA	1994	2000	U12-Open
1054		WCM	Gologorsky Rachel	2065711	USA	1979	1998	U14-Girls
1318			Regam Jessica	2033496	USA	1969	1996	U16-Girls
582			Hilby Craig	2062674	USA	1955	2000	U12-Open
583			Crump. Alexander J	2063662	USA	1953	2000	U12-Open
234			Taghizadeh Rayan	2054019	USA	1951	2002	U10-Open
584			Banik Siddharth G	2065843	USA	1949	2000	U12-Open
585			Moazami Amir	2055120	USA	1946	2000	U12-Open
1060			Bykovtsev Agata	2046547	USA	1944	1999	U14-Girls
237		CM	Kumar Aravind	2058871	USA	1944	2002	U10-Open
746			Eswaran Ashritha	2080788	USA	1924	2000	U12-Girls
601			Checa Nicolas D	2069342	USA	1907	2001	U12-Open
242			Nguyen Trung	2073129	USA	1899	2002	U10-Open
1072			Zhao Annie	2080230	USA	1878	1999	U14-Girls
1073			Virkud Apurva	2050820	USA	1872	1998	U14-Girls
423		WFM	Wang Annie	2053900	USA	1809	2002	U10-Girls
1357			Poteat Lilia M	2057590	USA	1766	1997	U16-Girls
771			Feng Maggie	2078090	USA	1746	2000	U12-Girls
298			Titus Andrew L	2059770	USA	1685	2002	U10-Open
1109			Sarna Kristen S	2047721	USA	1672	1998	U14-Girls
443		WCM	Nguyen Emily	2054000	USA	1621	2002	U10-Girls
813			Rajendra Anupama S	2078759	USA	1522	2000	U12-Girls
19			Wang Harry	2081261	USA	1520	2005	U08-Open
26			Wang Eric	2081288	USA	1472	2004	U08-Open
834			Abella Clarissa L	2075431	USA	0	2000	U12-Girls
483		WCM	Balasaygun Alara	2072262	USA	0	2003	U10-Girls
491			Bashkansky Naomi	2072289	USA	0	2003	U10-Girls
493			Bhanuprasad Meghana	–	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
166			Chen Carol	2072386	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
56			Daggupati Balaji	–	USA	0	2005	U08-Open
843			Davis Katherine S	2077655	USA	0	2001	U12-Girls
170			Dommalapati Aasa	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
171			Edelman Sadie	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
62			Frutos Cole N	2081989	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
484		WCM	Gorti Akshita	2072505	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
67			He Anthony	2088215	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
72			Jiang Kelvin	2080745	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
513			Kao Camille Y	2076462	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
1383			Lampman Becca	2082128	USA	0	1997	U16-Girls
84			Levkov Daniel	2072742	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
719			Li Ethan	–	USA	0	2000	U12-Open
189			Lin Sara	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
519			Liu Joanna	2064855	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
90			Milind Maiti	–	USA	0	2005	U08-Open
393			Miyasaka Marcus M	2073102	USA	0	2002	U10-Open
95			Nguyen Tan	2072807	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
101			Perkins Joaquin K	2062712	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
202			Rattray Jessica A	2072351	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
529			Ravishankar Ramitha S	2072513	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
104			Rood Ben	2078783	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
1150			Shao Stephanie	2062216	USA	0	1998	U14-Girls
110			Shen Christopher	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
119			Tang Ethan	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
736			Tiglon Bryce	2087456	USA	0	2000	U12-Open
862			Trakru Priya	2072491	USA	0	2001	U12-Girls
124			Turgut Aydin	2078791	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
125			Vaidya Atreya	2057840	USA	0	2005	U08-Open
126			Vivekananthan Anish	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Open
222			Wang Zhiyi A	2089556	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls
1154			Wang Joie	2044943	USA	0	1998	U14-Girls
128			Wu Logan	–	USA	0	2005	U08-Open
543			Yip Carissa	–	USA	0	2003	U10-Girls
544			Yu Jennifer R	2078341	USA	0	2002	U10-Girls
224			Zhou Iris	–	USA	0	2004	U08-Girls

Coaches for the USA delegation include (in alphabetical order and by title):

• GM Ben Finegold
  
• GM Joel Benjamin
• GM Nick De Firmian
• GM John Fedorowicz
• GM Alejandro Ramirez
• GM Gennady Zaitchik
• GM Sam Palatnik
• FM Aviv Friedman
• IM Armen Ambartsoumian
• IM Andranik Matikozyan
• IM John Bartholomew
• IM Jan van de Mortel
• Head of delegation and FIDE Senior trainer Michael Khodarkovsky.

Find full information on the official website.

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