Girish wins Gold in Asian Youth!

Karnataka wonderkid Girish Kaushik won
the Asian Youth Chess Championships
Boys Under 12 section in grand style by
a margin of one and a half points to get
his second Asian youth Gold medal.

Although Girish had lost to topseeded
Shiven Khosla of Maharshtra in the third
round, the young FIDE Master subsequently
recovered to win 5 games in a row. In the last
round, he completed the formality of a draw
with Vietnamese Tran Truan Minh to register
an ELO rating performance of 2258. Girish's
next big test will be the World Youth Chess
Championships to be played in Vietnam in the
month of October.

Shardul Gagare who lost to Girish in the seventh
round finished third in the same section. K. Manasa,
the other player from Karnataka, finished eighth
in the Girls Under 18 section with a fifty percent
score in seven rounds. P. Uthra of Tamil Nadu won
the Gold medal in this section.

Girish Kaushik's Gold medal was one of the six won
by India, and the contingent finished with a whopping
tally of 21 medals which is indeed a remarkable feat.