2012 World Junior Chess Championships
The 2012 FIDE World Junior Chess Championship took place from 2-16 August in Athens, Greece.
The competition was a 13-round Swiss at a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, then 30 minutes to a finish plus a 30 second increment from the start. Players had to be born no earlier than 1992 to take part.
19 year-old Alexander Ipatov emerged the winner with a score of 10/13 on superior tie-breaks from Richard Rapport. Ding Liren took third place with 9½/13 on tie-break from Nils Grandelius.
Ukrainian-born Alexander Ipatov (centre) with Richard Rapport (right) and Ding Liren (left)
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The top scorers:
| # | Name | Fed | Elo | Pts |
| 1 | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2577 | 10.0 |
| 2 | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2605 | 10.0 |
| 3 | Ding Liren | CHN | 2695 | 9.5 |
| 4 | Grandelius Nils | SWE | 2562 | 9.5 |
| 5 | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2635 | 9.0 |
| 6 | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2567 | 9.0 |
| 7 | Zherebukh Yaroslav | UKR | 2629 | 9.0 |
| 8 | Indjic Aleksandar | SRB | 2481 | 9.0 |
| 9 | Huschenbeth Niclas | GER | 2532 | 9.0 |
| 10 | Hansen Eric | CAN | 2472 | 9.0 |
| 11 | Wei Yi | CHN | 2418 | 8.5 |
| 12 | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2596 | 8.5 |
| 13 | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2565 | 8.5 |
| 14 | Antipov Mikhail Al | RUS | 2462 | 8.5 |
| 15 | Andersen Mads | DEN | 2464 | 8.5 |
| 16 | Grover Sahaj | IND | 2516 | 8.0 |
| 17 | Cori Jorge | PER | 2487 | 8.0 |
| 18 | Salem A R Saleh | UAE | 2546 | 8.0 |
| 19 | Yilmaz Mustafa | TUR | 2543 | 8.0 |
| 20 | Holt Conrad | USA | 2498 | 8.0 |
A separate girls competition was won by Guo Qui of China on tie-breaks with a score of 9½/13.
Guo Qui receives the girls winner trophy
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The top scorers in the girls competition:
| # | Name | Fed | Elo | Pts |
| 1 | Guo Qi | CHN | 2358 | 9.5 |
| 2 | Ziaziulkina Nastassia | BLR | 2342 | 9.5 |
| 3 | Bodnaruk Anastasia | RUS | 2414 | 9.5 |
| 4 | Medina Warda Aulia | INA | 2218 | 9.5 |
| 5 | Arabidze Meri | GEO | 2379 | 9.0 |
| 6 | Cori T Deysi | PER | 2413 | 8.5 |
| 7 | Bulmaga Irina | ROU | 2380 | 8.5 |
| 8 | Sihite Chelsie Monica | INA | 2162 | 8.5 |
| 9 | Wang Jue | CHN | 2355 | 8.5 |
| 10 | Abdulla Khayala | AZE | 2217 | 8.5 |
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Games via TWIC. More information is available at the official website. Pictures via Facebook. A list of previous winners can be found here.
