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| Prasad
leads Indian squad for Asian Team Chess |
A four-member team consisting of
IMs Krishnan Sasikiran, D V Prasad, Abhijit
Kunte and
G B Prakash will represent the country
in the forthcoming Asian Team Chess Championship to be held at
Shenyang, in China. The tournament offers GM Norm chances for the young Indian
team led by the experienced IM D V Prasad of IOC, Bangalore.With Sasikiran in form, by winning the Asian Junior title in Vietnam
just a fortnight ago, much will be expeceted of him and also from the Pune star Abhijit
Kunte who has two GM Norms to his credit. The strong & steady G B Prakash from Indian
Bank, Chennai, will add strength to the rear. But the absence of a reserve player may be
felt in the later rounds. |
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| Indian
Team for World Junior Championship A
twelve member Indian contingent will take part in the World Junior (under 10 - 18)
Championships scheduled to be held at Oropesa del Mar in Spain from Oct. 23rd to Nov. 4th
'99. The previous edition was also held at the same venue where Koneru Humpy was crowned
World Under-12 Champion. Humpy will be defending her title this time. Also forming part of
the team are two champions from Chennai, namely, M R Venkatesh in the Boys Under-14
Section and Aarthie Ramaswamy in the Girls Under-18 Section.
The teams:
BOYS
| Under-10 |
Rahul Sangama (Bihar) |
| Under-12 |
Sunil Rangarajan (Karnataka) |
| Under-14 |
M R Venkatesh (Tamil Nadu) |
| Under-16 |
P Harikrishna (Andhra Pradesh) |
| Under-18 |
Valay K Parikh (Gujarat) |
GIRLS
| Under-10 |
Mary Ann Gomes (West Bengal) |
| Under-12 |
Koneru Humpy (Andhra Pradesh) |
| Under-14 |
Tania Sachdev (Delhi) & Shraddha Samani
(Maharashtra) |
| Under-18 |
Aarthie Ramaswamy (Tamil Nadu) |
International Master Manuel Aaron of Tamil Nadu and A S
Karkhanis of Maharashtra will accompany the squad as coaches.
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| Kasparov,
still in command ... The only player yet
to lose a match to any human being, Gary Kasparov  continues to lead the FIDE world rankings and remains the only
player to have ever crossed the Magic 2800 mark. Viswanathan Anand occupies the second
position, inspite of having lost 11 points. Among the juniors, Peter Leko of Hungary
dominates. He maintains a huge 85 points lead over the new No.2 Ponomariov of Ukraine. K.
Sashikiran of India stormed to the tenth position with a 65 point gain compared to his
July '98 rating. Judith Polgar of Hungary is way ahead (119 points) of the rest of the
women players. It is interesting that she gains points from men, as she seldom takes part
in competitions meant for women.
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| Eight-year-old
David Howell makes history  The Mind
Sports Olympiad which concluded on the last week of August '99 in London saw history being
made when an eight-year-old British chess whizz-kid became the youngest ever player to
beat a Grand Master. David Howell, a schoolboy from Seaford in eastern England, swindled
Grand Master John Nunn of England in a rapid play exibition match, inflicting a stunning
defeat. GM John Nunn who is 30 years senior to David, is a renowned theoretician and has
represented the British team in Chess Olympiads.
"I'm quite excited by the win. I thought I was going
to lose quite badly," said David, who started to play chess at the age of five and is
the British Under-10 champion. His father Martin, a doctor, said after the match: "I
taught him to play and he made sense of the game very quickly, in about an
afternoon". |
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