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Chess prodigy to vie for world title
May 29, 2011 DC Tiruchy
May 28: Eight-year-old L.N. Ramesh Aravind, a budding chess prodigy, recently brought laurels to the city and the country, winning two championships — Asian youth chess championship and Asian youth blitz chess championship in Philippines.
Aravind, a Class IV student of Kamala Nikhetan Montessori school in the city, represented the country in the Under-8 age group in the Asian-level tournament and won all rounds. He bagged two gold medals: one each at the Asian youth chess championship and Asian youth blitz chess championship which was a sequel to the main event. By virtue of his win at the Asian level, he will represent the country in the world youth chess championship in Brazil later this year.
Earlier, he had won the national youth chess championship (Under-7 category) at Jamshedpur in November 2010 and was picked by the all Indian chess federation to represent the country in the Asian youth chess championship in Philippines. He was initiated into chess at the tender age of two and trained by a professional coach from then on, say his businessman father Nagappan and homemaker mother Muthu.
“Aravind is gifted with phenomenal memory and could identify the national flags even when he was two. As he was also a voracious reader, we wanted to channelise his talent in a mentally-challenging board game like chess,” said his mother. “Now he is under the tutelage of coach Manikanteswarasamy of Vellore who trains Aravind in person and through the online platform,” said Mr Nagappan. Manikanteswarasamy says Aravind was an aggressive player as he won the title with a round to spare in the Philippines tournament. “We hope he would bring laurels at the global level soon.”
Source: http://www.deccanchronicle.com
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