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Universities Tournament, Singapore , May 17-22 |
The Madras University Chess
team recorded its first ever overseas victory in the Global Youth Tertiar y Institute's Chess Challenge in Singapore. Nine teams competed in
this round robin event.The Madras University team qualified for the event by virtue of its
performance in the All India Inter-Universities at BITS, Pilani, last year. The team
consisted of G. Dinesh (Captain), T. V.
Kathikeyan , G. Vinod, R. Aarthie, C. J. Arvind, R. Navaneetha Krishnan and S.
Pandurangan. The Physical Director, Madras University, accompanied the team as
Manager while O. S. Shankar was the team's Coach.
The
winners, Madras University, won six of their eight matches and drew two. Besides the team
trophy, T. V. Karthikeyan of Loyola College, Chennai, took the Gold for th e best individual performace, while R. Aarthie won the "
Best Women Player Award ". Karthikeyan played all the matches and secured 7.5
points to tie with Foo Siang Ming of Singapore University. However, in the ensuing
tie-break match of two games, Karthikeyan beat the player from Singapore, 1.5-0.5.The
tournament which was excellently organised by, the host, Nanyang Technological University
is to be conducted on a grander scale next time with invitations being sent to stong Chess
Nations in the erstwhile Soviet Union.
Final
Placings |
| 1. Madras University |
| 2. National University of Singapore |
| 3. Nanyang Technological University 'A' |
| 4. Technology University of Malaysia |
| 5. Singapore Polytechnic |
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