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Ok, I'm back from Vrnjacka Banja. Uros Cvetanovic, a junior from my chess club, finished 2nd in Serbian U12 championship for boys. Uros is one of the most perspective kids in Serbia & Montenegro. He was already U10 federal champion.

We had the "tournament" rules - Uros never analyses games or prepares for the next round during the tourney. We wanted to keep his head cool. After having big problems with Taimanov sicilian (the only opening he uses with Black) and with his well prepared opponents, we decided to modify rules in the future.

Aleksandar Dimitrijevic finished 11th in the same group. Milica Milosavljevic is Serbian U14 champion for girls and her sister Marija took the silver medal. This family rules their age groups in last 4 years. We are all very proud of kids from Cuprija.

Nemanja Zivkovic, winner of the Fourth Christmas Tournament "Nole 2006" which was held on Jan 4th, is Serbian U14 champion for boys. This modest kid was running away from me during the entire event as he thought I am TV reporter :-)