Ireland’s representatives at the recently-concluded European Union Youth Championships in Mureck, Austria,were Geoffrey Keating, Diana Mirza, Sasha-Ettore Faleschini and Mark Tonita (respectively U14, U12, U10, and U8). All games have now appeared on the tournament web site, and the 36 games involving the Irish contingent have been added to the archive here.
Diana Mirza deserves congratulations for finishing 12th overall in the U12 championships with 5/9, winning the silver medal for U12 girls. She finished ½ point behind the gold medal winner, Viktoria Radeva (Bulgaria). Their individual game was a hard-fought and interesting one: though Diana eventually lost, she had definite chances of a result. The diagram shows the position after Radeva’s 27. c5.
Here’s a video from last year’s U14 championship, in which Diana scored a very respectable 4½/9: U14 9.6. Jerguš Pecháč – Diana Mirza 1 – 0.