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Three of the four players who were asked to take the medical test have been removed from the pairings and ejected from Indian Bank-Vel's National Under-9 Championship on June 11, 2005. While two of the three players, A.R.Priya (AP) and Kumar Sanu (Jha) failed the test conducted by the TNCA on Saturday, Chandana Priya Reddy (AP) did not show up for the test and was deemed to have failed. Only G.Sai Vasava Datta (AP) passed the test. The arbiters have been instructed to remove the three players from the pairings by the Tamil Nadu Chess
Association.
The test was justice in time as A.R.Priya was almost declared winner having scored 9/9. Many of the players from Andhra Pradesh did not have proper age certificates and also looked bigger in physical size. This is a victory for fairness in sport and the beneficiary is the system.
This development is significant since players lived in doubts in the past if one or two of their rivals players may be overaged and may be cheating the others. They stopped with a heavy feeling and rarely wrote complaint letters. The AICF in the past did not address this problem plaguing hundreds of age group players. Sending three players home and snatching the title from one of the players shows that the organisers have the determination to use science to solve a problem rather
than debate it.
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