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Ivan Šaric (chess player)
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Ivan Šarić is a Croatia
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Grandmaster. He is the 2007 U18 European Youth Chess Champion
and the 2008 U18 World Youth Chess Champion
. In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Julio Granda
, Aleksander Delchev
, Maxim Turov
, Pablo Almagro Llamas and Mihail Marin
the 31st Villa de Benasque
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Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Grandmaster. He is the 2007 U18 European Youth Chess Champion
European Youth Chess Championship
Since 1991, the European chess union organises the European Youth Chess Championship in the groups under 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 year. Until 2002, there was also a tournament for the under 20, see European Junior Chess Championship.-Boys winners:...
and the 2008 U18 World Youth Chess Champion
World Youth Chess Championship
The World Youth Chess Championship is a chess competition for girls and boys under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18.The first predecessor of the youth championship was the Cadet Championship. It started off unofficially in 1974 in France for players under 18. The 1975 and 1976 editions were also...
. In 2011 he tied for 2nd-7th with Julio Granda
Julio Granda
Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga is a Peruvian chess Grandmaster.In his coastal town, he learned how to play chess at the very young age of five....
, Aleksander Delchev
Aleksander Delchev
Aleksander Delchev is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster. He won the Bulgarian Chess Championship in 1994, 1996 and 2001. He participated in five Chess Olympiads with a performance of 60.4% ....
, Maxim Turov
Maxim Turov
Maxim Turov is a Russian chess Grandmaster .In 2005 and 2011 he won the Dutch Open Championship in Dieren. In 2009, came second in Doroshkevich Memorial, first in Eforie Nord, in Nordhausen Open and in Faaker See Open...
, Pablo Almagro Llamas and Mihail Marin
Mihail Marin
Mihail Marin is a Romanian chess Grandmaster. As of July 2011, his FIDE rating is 2548. Marin's first major success in international chess was in qualifying for the Interzonal in 1987. He has won three Romanian Championships and has played in the Chess Olympiads ten times, winning a bronze...
the 31st Villa de Benasque
Benasque
Benasque or Benasc is a town in the comarca of Ribagorza, province of Huesca, . It is the main town in the Benasque Valley, located in the heart of the Pyrenees and surrounded by the highest peaks in that range.-Language:...
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