Age championships (8,10,12,14,16,18) started in Batumi among boys and girls, 707 chess players represents 34 countries.

Most favorites succeeded in the first round of the tournament. 2007 World Champion Keti Tsatsalashvili U-18 age category is a leader with rating. World and Europe Champion a lot of times Meri Aarabidze is a leader in 16-year-old. The second number is 2006 World Champion 12-year-old Mariam Dnelia.
Georgia represents most chess players in 8 age category. 27 girls and 38 boys fight In this category, the least players are in 18 age category – 5 girls and 8 boys.
Such Youth European tournament takes place in Batumi first time, but this region has much experience of holding prestige chess tournaments. Batumi hosted European Team Championship in November of 1999 and in 2002 was held historical match Europe against Asia, legend chess players and many times World and Olympic champions Gari Kasparov played against Maya Chiburdanidze.
Before 4 years, in autumn of 2006 World’s strongest young chess players fought for the best title.