Ethan Vaz has made Goa proud by winning the Silver Medal for India at the World Youth Chess Solving Championship 2022, at Batumi, Georgia. The championship was held alongside the World Cadets Chess Championship, where Ethan delivered a mind-blowing performance but fell marginally short, missing a second Silver Medal by just half a point.
The World Youth Chess Solving Championship was contested by 218 players from 39 countries, in 6 categories, viz. Open and Girls in U8, U10 and U12. Ethan (Elo 1855) scored an impressive 36 points of possible 40, to clinch the Silver in the U12 Open category, while Henry Edward Tudor (Elo 1927) of Romania took the Gold with 39 points and Alex Villa Tornero (Elo 2114) of Spain settled for Bronze with 34 points. Ethan was awarded a FIDE Medal and a Diploma by FIDE, at the hands of David Gurgenidze who is an International Arbiter and International Grandmaster in Chess Composition and the official delegate of Georgia to the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC).