India Dominates Asian Youth in Sri Lanka

Tuesday, 10 July 2012 09:51

India dominated the medal race with a combined tally of 34 Gold, 24 Silver and 17 Bronze medals in all three events at the Asian Youth Chess Championships held 25 June to 2 July 2012 in Hikkaduwa in Sri Lanka. India topped the individual medal lists also in all three categories earning 5 Gold, 6 Silver & 7 Bronze in Classical Chess, 5 Gold, 8 Silver & 5 Bronze in Rapid Chess and 6 Gold, 5 Silver & 5 Bronze in Blitz Chess events.

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Asian Chess Federation Secretary General Hisham Al Taher awarding medals for girls teams.

The Asian Youth Chess Championships were organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka in a very grand scale at Chaaya Tranze Beach Resort with the support of two other Hotels, Hotel Citrus and Hotel Coral Sands. The lovely stay of 8 days with the Sri Lankan Hospitality was a great experience for all those young players attended.

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Sri Lanka Chess Federation president Upali Gunasekara awarding trophies and medals to girls individual.

In the total medals of all events including team Championships, Vietnam became second with 15 Gold, 18 Silver and 9 Bronze and Iran became third with 9 Gold, 13 Silver and 7 Bronze. Sri Lanka had a total of 6 Gold, 8 Silver and 20 Bronze.

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Asian Chess Federation Secretary General Hisham Al Taher makes the ceremonial moves opening the blitz championship assisted by Sri Lanka Chess Federation Secretary Luxman Wijesuriya.

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Asian Chess Federation Deputy President Casto Abundo awarding medals to girls blitz.

In the classical event Iran had 4 Gold medals, Vietnam and China 2 gold medals each and Mongolia 1.

Girish Koushik (U-16), R Vaishali (U-12, girls), N Priyanka (U-10, girls), R Praggnanandhaa (U-8) and Sanskruti Wankhade (U-6, girls) won the Gold Medals for India.

Asadi Motahare (U-8,girls), Gholami Aryan (FM) (U-12), Derakhshani Dorsa (WCM) (U-14,
girls) and Lorparizangeneh Shahin (FM) (U-14) won Individual Gold medals in classical Chess for Iran.

Nguyen Anh Khoi (FM) (U-10) and Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (WIM) (U-18, girls) won classical Gold
Medals for Vietnam.

Xiao Yiyi (U-16, girls) and Zhao Zhouqiao Chn (U-18) won Golds for China. Mongolia had 1 Gold medal from Yesuntumur Tugstumur in Under 6 open category. Sri Lanka had only one Bronze Medal by Omaya Tashini Jayathilake in Under 6 Girls.

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The medal winners of the main event, the classical Chess event are given below;

Under 6 Girls

1	Wankhade Sanskruti	India	5
2	Galsandorj Enkhchimeg	Mongolia	4
3	Jayathilaka Omaya Tashi	Sri Lanka	3

Under 6 Open

1	Yesuntumur Tugstumur	Mongolia	8½
2	Vallabh Kavi	India	8
3	Solomko Artur	Kyrgyzstan	6½

Under 8 Girls

1	Asadi Motahare	0	Iran	7
2	Rindhiya V	1223	India	6½
3	Rakshitta Ravi	0	India	6

Under 8 Open

1	Praggnanandhaa R	1378	India	7½
2	Ngo Duc Tri	0	Vietnam	6½
3	Nguyen Huynh Minh Thien	0	Vietnam	6

Under 10 Girls

1	Priyanka N	1593	India	7
2	Lakshmi C (WFM)	1445	India	7
3	Kalantari Sedigheh	0	Iran	6½

Under 10 Open

1	Nguyen Anh Khoi (FM)	1913	Vietnam	7
2	Derakhshani Borna	1813	Iran	6½
3	Rahul Srivatshav P	1588	India	6

Under 12 Girls

1	Vaishali R	1915	India	8½
2	Yang Yijing	0	China	7
3	Sunyuktha C M N	1601	India	6½

Under 12 Open

1	Gholami Aryan (FM)	2069	Iran	7
2	Rakesh Kumar Jena (FM)	1885	India	7
3	Igonin Temur (FM)	1917	Uzbekistan	6½

Under 14 Girls

1	Derakhshani Dorsa (WCM)	2004	Iran	6½
2	Mahalakshmi M (WFM)	2049	India	6
3	Monnisha GK (WFM)	1959	India	6

Under 14 Open

1	Lorparizangeneh Shahin (FM)	2195	Iran	6½
2	Mousavi Seyed Khalil	2216	Iran	6½
3	Karthikeyan Murali	2329	India	6½

Under 16 Girls

1	Xiao Yiyi	2137	China	7
2	Nandhidhaa Pv	2176	India	6½
3	Michelle Catherina P	2073	India	6½

Under 16 Open

1	Girish A Koushik (FM)	2337	India	8
2	Le Tuan Minh (FM)	2147	Vietnam	6
3	Literatus Austin Jacob	1978	Philippines	6

Under 18 Girls

1	Nguyen Thi Mai Hung (WIM)	2237	Vietnam	7
2	Qiu Mengjie	1982	China	7
3	Saranya J (WFM)	2091	India	6½

Under 18 Open

1	Zhao Zhouqiao Chn	2159	China	6½
2	Sodikov Ilyas	2218	Kazakastan	6½
3	Lagula Dominique	2044	Philippines	6