The European Youth Chess Championships has finished.

This annual event gives Europe's leading junior players (there were about 750 in the various age categories) a chance to compete for influential titles. Many of today's elite were quite recently competing in these events. The performances achieved illustrates the standard at the top of each category.

Open Under 18 results:

Durarbeyli beat Bologan earlier this year, so this result is no surprise, but it's still a tough break for the Armenian player who also obtained eight points.

Here are the results of the nine other sections.

Open Under 16 results:

Open Under 14 results:

Open Under 12 results:

Open Under 10 results:

Open Under 8 results:

Girls Under 18 results:

Girls Under 16 results:

Girls Under 14 results:

Girls Under 12 results:

Girls Under 10 results:

Girls Under 8 results:

The French obtained two bronzes and Turkey a gold but otherwise all the other medals were scooped up by Eastern European and Caucasion nations, who therefore seem likely to maintain their dominance for some time to come.

The events were all nine round Swisses and (as you can ascertain) above, the age groups varied from the under 8s to the under 18s for both boys and girls.

The time limit seems to be the standard one in FIDE events (such as here in the Olympiad) 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes with an incremental 30 seconds per move (starting from move one).

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Georgia is a small country located in the region known as the Caucasus at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Despite being a minnow in size (approximately 69,700 square kilometers) it's well-known as a strong chess nation, and was particularly so for women (World Champions Gaprindashvili and Chiburdanidze are both Georgian) in the seventies and eighties.