Indians win 23 medals, steal the show
On Saturday, August 08, 2009
New Delhi, Aug 8: Indians once again proved its growing superiority in the age group championships as they won 23 medals – eight golds, seven silver and eight bronze- out of the 36 at stake in the Asian Youth Chess Championship here today.
K Priyadharshan (U-16), Shiven Khosla (U-14), Diptayan Ghosh (U-12), Mitrabha Guha (U-8), Saranya J (Girls’ U-14), Srija Seshadri, Monnisha GK (U-12) and Khushi Dharewa (U-8) provided the golden colour to the Indian medal tally.Shyam Nikil (U-18), Harshal Shahi (U-10), Aryan Chopra (U-8), Pon N Krithika (Girls U-18), Rucha Pujari (U-16), Ivana Maria Furtado (U-10) and Arpita Mukherjee (U-8) claimed the silver medals.
In the girls U-12 section, India’s Srija Seshadri and Monnisha were tied for the pole position and jointly won the championship while in both sections of U-8, India made the clean sweep.Vietnam finished second with two golds, one silver and one bronze.
Source: http://www.centralchronicle.com/
Indians are obviously best.
What do you expect?
The are just too many Indians and not enough cowboys.
Remember China did not participate in this Asian Youth Chess Championship. China is not part of this Asian grouping. So talking about “Indian dominance” in Asia is meaningless.
india is the only country in asia that takes the asian youth seriously….
btw, indians are better at chess than cowboys anyday…