| Top rated - World Junior Chess Championship girls 2008 |
WIM Joanna Majdan1114 viewsWIM Joanna Majdan, 2323, the Polish junior girls champion, already had many national medals, with bronze medal at U18 Girls World Junior Championship in Belfort 2005. In 2006, she won her first junior national title, represented her country in the Olympiads at Turin, scoring the best individual result for her team. She was also runner-up in Polish Championship for Women.
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WFM Anastasia Bodnaruk800 viewsWFM Anastasia Bodnaruk, 2392, the Russian youngster who won the Russian Junior Girls Championship this year is going to be another Russian to fight for the top spots in the championship.
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WIM Katerina Nemcova822 viewsWIM Katerina Nemcova, 2372, 18, from Czech Republic won the silver medal last year in category Under 18 Girls at World Youth Championship held in Kemer, Turkey. She is also the champion of Czech Republic for Women. A former basketball player, chose a chess as her major career and seems she has been quite successful so far.
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WGM Mariya Muzychuk829 viewsWGM Mariya Muzychuk, 2413, the younger Muzychuk sister, but not short of her sister as an elite youngster female player to be reckoned with, playing for Turkish Airlines in Turkish Is Bank Chess League, led her team to win the third place with perfect score (14/14!) including a victory against her rival in age category, WFM Kübra Öztürk. Definitely one of the most promising youngsters around and one of the favorites for fight for the top spots.
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WFM Kübra Öztürk820 viewsWFM Kübra Öztürk, 2188, gained a status of sports celebrity thanks to her victories in European Youth Championship in Under 16 Girls twice. After winning her first U16 Girls European title back in 2006, led to her nomination to being Sportswomen of the year. Then, she went on to win her second consecutive European title after giving many interviews and receiving many success prizes. After sharing the first place but becoming
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WGM Vera Nebolsina1104 viewsWGM Vera Nebolsina, 2350, the defending World Junior Girls Champion is participating in 2008 World Junior Girls Championship. Nebolsina, was also former U10 Girls World Champion. Russian youngster, despite being a vegetarian might not be able to enjoy the kebabs of Gaziantep but she will try to compensate it by defending her title.
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WIM Atousa Pourkashiyan883 viewsWIM Atousa Pourkashiyan, 2269 from Iran could be called as the "Betül of Iran", however, already has a larger collection of medals thanks to her victories at the international level including a world U-12 title. She is the reigning Iranian Champion for women, helped her country to win the bronze medal in Asian Games in Doha.
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IM Harika Dronavalli828 viewsIM Harika Dronavalli, 2461, the second highest rated female player in India after GM Humpy Koneru. A former prodigy, has collected many medals in youth categories in Asia and in the world, the last one was her gold medal in World Under 18 title in 2006. She was one of the participants of the women's super tournament in Turkey, İş Bank Atatürk International Women Masters , scored 4/9.
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WFM Nazi Paikidze966 viewsWFM Nazi Paikidze, rated 2277, is the newest product of Georgian chess, a country known as one of the super powers of female chess. She comfortably won the gold medal in Under 14 Girls at World Youth Championship .
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WGM Hou Yifan733 viewsWGM Hou Yifan,2557, 14 came to Turkey twice, for European Club Cup and to İş Bank Atatürk International Women Masters , a brand new super-tournament for women. She has one GM norm from Aeroflot Open 2008 . She won the first edition of the Turkish super tournament quite comfortably. She Now she is back in Turkey again for figting against the best junior players in the world.
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WFM Keti Tsatsalashvili1761 viewsWFM Keti Tsatsalashvili,2277, another Georgian, the world champion in under 16 Girls category , also plays in İş Bank Turkish Chess League.
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WGM Turkan Mamedyarova605 viewsWGM Turkan Mamedyarova, 2284, the younger sister of "Shak" Mamedyarov, but definitely a talented chess player as any other member of the Mamedyarov family, performed very well in World Junior Girls Championship last time it was held in Turkey, back in 2005. 
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