Three Medal Winners Arrive At Chennai

By Arvind Aaron

The chess fraternity in Chennai welcomed the three Chennai players who won medals at the World Youth Chess Festival that concluded at couple of days before at Antalya in Turkey.

S.P. Sethuraman, the under-16 champion, J. Saranya, the bronze medal in under-14 girls and Karthikeyan Murali, under-10 silver medal winner were given a nice reception by the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association and the Velammal School. All the three of them belong to the Velammal School.

On arrival, the coach, GM R.B. Ramesh said we could have won three more titles or medals had Vaibhav Suri, B. Adhiban and Bansi Prathima won in the final round.

Chennai keeps the World Under-16 title as B. Adhiban had won this section in 2008 at Vietnam. S.P. Sethuraman had replaced him as champion and this title remains in our country.

Many of our players were in the next higher age group section this time and more medals could come next year, observed Ramesh.

International Master K. Murugan of Neyveli also arrived with the team. Along with WGM Aarthie Ramesh, IM D.V. Prasad and IM norm holder K. Visweswaran this was perhaps the best coaching unit which travelled for these events from India.

One happy person was M. Velayudham of Bloom Chess Academy, the man with a cap even in indoors. Two of his students, J. Saranya and Karthikeyan Murali won medals.

Besides parents of the champions and other players from the state the reception party was above 100. Many players arrived from Mumbai while a few others arrived from Delhi all at around 1 p.m.  and the reception was a happy one with distribution of sweets and players being garlanded.


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