Girish Koushik is now the Asian Under 14 Chess Champion. Stany finishes second in Asian Under 18 Chess Championship
Asian heroes: Girish Koushik (left) and Stany G.A
Mysore lad Girish A Koushik made India proud when he won the under-14 title in the Asian Youth Chess Championships held at Subic, Philippines on Saturday, 21st May, 2011. He scored 7.5 points out of possible nine to annex the title. Shimoga lad GA Stany clinched the silver in the boys’ under-18 category, scoring 7 points from nine rounds. Though Stany and IM Debasshis Das of Cuttack were tied on 7 points, the latter was declared winner based on better progressive score.
��� Indian youngsters stole the show in the seven-day championships, winning 10 out of the 12 titles on offer. Debashis Das (U-18), Sankalp Baliarsingh (U-10), Ram Aravind (U-8) in boys and Rucha Pujari (U-18), Nandhidhaa (U-16), G.K. Monnisha (U-14), Ivana Furtado (U-12), Bidhar Rutumbara (U-10), C. Lakshmi (U-8) are the other winners in different age categories. LN Ram, who won title in the under-8 category, was the star Indian performer as he took the podium with an all-win record. Overall, Indian players won 18 medals out of a maximum 36. Indians made a clean sweep in the under-10 boys and girls categories.
Girish Koushik is now the Asian Under 14 Chess Champion. Stany finishes second in Asian Under 18 Chess Championship
Asian heroes: Girish Koushik (left) and Stany G.A
Mysore lad Girish A Koushik made India proud when he won the under-14 title in the Asian Youth Chess Championships held at Subic, Philippines on Saturday, 21st May, 2011. He scored 7.5 points out of possible nine to annex the title. Shimoga lad GA Stany clinched the silver in the boys’ under-18 category, scoring 7 points from nine rounds. Though Stany and IM Debasshis Das of Cuttack were tied on 7 points, the latter was declared winner based on better progressive score.
��� Indian youngsters stole the show in the seven-day championships, winning 10 out of the 12 titles on offer. Debashis Das (U-18), Sankalp Baliarsingh (U-10), Ram Aravind (U-8) in boys and Rucha Pujari (U-18), Nandhidhaa (U-16), G.K. Monnisha (U-14), Ivana Furtado (U-12), Bidhar Rutumbara (U-10), C. Lakshmi (U-8) are the other winners in different age categories. LN Ram, who won title in the under-8 category, was the star Indian performer as he took the podium with an all-win record. Overall, Indian players won 18 medals out of a maximum 36. Indians made a clean sweep in the under-10 boys and girls categories.
for striking ability,age is importantas you improve timing with age.
consider this,Kohli is the only under 25 run maker in the top 10. for the past 3 IPL ,kohli himself made little impact.
IPL is suited for raina,rohit and kohli age group onwards.
mayank,mandeep and ashok menaria are too raw to make an impact now. they need a few more years.
valthaty got a second lease of life due to ipl4.
rahul sharma too has made his presence felt.
certainly the likes of mayank or harpreet can learn destructives skills in IPL than later.
ganguly learnt to be a destructive opener after 4 years of international cricket.these younger players can enter internationals with more offensive skills.
its about the learning experience.not necessarily ipl success.
when icl was banned by icc, it was alleged that icl is promoting players to boycott national duty to play in league; that there was clash of intnl events etc.
now whats happening with IPL. same players r boycotting their country (gayle, malinga etc,), plkayers r playing ipl but skiping national duties on medical grounds (gambhir, sachin, dhoni, sehwag).
IPL is a commodity being sold to a cricket-crazy nation hell-bent on killing all other deserving sports. It is high time that sports like Football, Hockey, Badminton, Tennis etc are given their due. Moreover, cricket in India thrives like weeds and everyone knows for sure that most matches are fixed.
Re: What talent?
by Kunjal Joshi on May 31, 2011 09:59 PM
It is the game that is attracting people, people did not conspire anything against other games but its just about accessibility and affordability.Cricket Kit for tennis ball is very cheap compared to any other sports. Even it could be played in close area with limited team members. So people play that very easliy and develop their interest. For e.g. If you talk about golf there is almost zero awareness in under developed nations not because they dont like it but because it is out of reach for a common man.
All NDTV, LKTV, YTV, ZTV all channels will start review, few folks we never heard off will start thrashing, we should do this, do that, stop watching cricket, etc etc
Then india will win a cricket match and all will be forgotten. Jai Hind. Hum kabhi nahin sudhrenge (including me), we will still write comments here (including me) - Bye for now
Re: IPL
by David Coulthard on May 31, 2011 08:06 PM
Totally agree. IPL is a commodity being sold to a cricket-crazy nation hell-bent on killing all other deserving sports. It is high time that sports like Football, Hockey, Badminton, Tennis etc are given their due. Moreover, cricket in India thrives like weeds and everyone knows for sure that most matches are fixed.
The above youngsters are getting chance to play. All them have to retire from all forms of cricket. Feel pity for Pradeep Sangwan, Yomahesh, Milind Tare, Laxmi Shukla
Re: Unsung?
by Preeti Mishra on May 31, 2011 05:41 PM
Aswin already have played internation cricket and Valthathy is 29 and is strugling to play for mumabi in ranji.
