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Adhiban, Medal Winners Given Hearty Welcome
By Arvind Aaron
 Plenty
of chess officials and parents of the arriving players formed the grand
reception given to World Under-16 champion B. Adhiban and the other three
medal winners when they returned from Vung Tau, Vietnam to Chennai on
October 31.
Adhiban's mother offered sweets to all the chess connected people in the
gathering while Sethuraman's mother offered candy. It was a nice
gathering. Plenty of photos were taken. Adhiban was presented a flower
crown.
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the four medal winners were garlanded. S.P. Sethuraman (silver medal in
Boys U-16), R. Preethi (silver medal, Girls U-18), Bodda Pratyusha (bronze
medal, Girls U-12) were received and honoured right at the arrival gate.
D.V. Sundar, Honorary Secretary of the AICF, offered a shawl to Adhiban
and Mrs Sundar offered a shawl to Preethi. There was a photo session and
the players spoke to the media.
Tamil Nadu State Chess Association officials led by Vice President V.
Kameswaran, Asst Treasurer Thirukkalathy and Joint Secretary Balaraman
were there to receive the stars who returned from Vietnam.
The three official coaches, IM Manuel Aaron, WGM Aarthie Ramesh, Sakthi
Prabhakar were also honoured. K. Muralimohan, General Secretary of the
TNSCA, also returned from Vietnam. "Organising at Vietnam was of a very
high standard," said Muralimohan.
Adhiban said he has not visualised what his next target will be in chess.
One can assume the Under-18 or Under-20 titles of the World. He had been
part of the World Youth Olympiad gold medal winning team twice.
Pratyusha who missed the title in the last day and had to settle for
bronze hoped she will do it better next time.
Many of the players including R. Preethi of Madurai are leaving for the
National Junior at Tadepalligudem in Andhra from here directly.
Right from the World Junior of 1987 won by Vishy Anand, until Vietnam
titles, India has won 27 World Chess titles. It should read 27 and
counting since we are a dominating force in world chess.
India won four titles, and the next best was Croatia with two titles. Big
nations like Russia, China, Georgia won only one each.
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01st November, 2008
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