Girish finishes with Silver

World Under 10 Champion Girish Kaushik (ELO 2085)
finished with a Silver medal after beating Sultan
Ibrahim of the U.A.E. in the last round of the
Asian Youth Chess Championships which
concluded in Al Ain, U.A.E. today.

Girish scored 7 out of possible 9 points to land in
a three way tie for the first place in the Boys Under
10 category. By virtue of a better progressive
score, compatriot Shardul Gagare (ELO 1995) was
adjudged the winner whereas unrated Le Huu Thai of
Vietnam had to remain content with the Bronze medal.
Girish's successive defeats in the 5th and 6th rounds at the
hands of Gagare and Oleg Artemenko of Uzbekistan prevented
him from dominating his category as he was expected to.

The other Karnataka lad M. Satvik did not fare so well
in the Boys Under 10 section and scored 4.5 points to
finish in 11th place. Last year, Satvik (ELO 1924) had finished with
a Bronze medal in the Asian Youth Championships which
were held in Tehran, Iran. Girish and Satvik were accompanied
by their coaches N. Sanjay and M.S. Thejkumar respectively
who are also from Karnataka.

India garnered four more Gold medals (besides Gagare's)
when Ivana Furtado in the Girls Under 8, B. Pratyusha
in the Girls Under 10, Priyanka Kumari in the Girls Under 12
and Revanth Reddy in the Boys Under 10 section all finished
top in their respective categories. India's tally of 10 medals
(5 Golds, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze) is in stark contrast to the 21
medals that they won in Tehran, Iran which included 8 Gold medals
in all the 8 categories.