Poem by Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion

        Poem Fruits by Sumit Deshpande

Verse (1)- Fruits are my best food ,
                 I always think that they are very good,
                 Fruits come from trees,
                 And take in breeze .
Verse(2)    Fruits are fresh,
                 And given breath,
                 When they grow big,
                 They become fat as a pig.
Verse(3)    Some are bouncy,
                  And others like nancy,
                  Some have leaves,
                  And others are in greeze.
Verse(4)    Some are like socks,
                 And others are in blocks,
                 Some have tears,
                 Others drink beers.
Verse(5)    They are in basket,
                  All full of rockets,
                  Some have thorns,
                  And others have gowns.
           The End

            

Kenya Under 8 - Boys Champion

We have earlier published a few articles about Kenya Under-8 Girls Champion. Now we are presenting you Sumit S Deshpande who is Kenya's National Champion in Under-8 Boys category. Unfortunately he could not play in WYCC-2010 due to some financial problems. He scored 5 / 7 points to win national title in May 2010. He parents shifted to Nairobi from Banglore when he was only 3 years old and he can speak only English now.

LCA - Did you miss WYCC ?
Sumit - Yes I was very keen to play in Greece .
LCA -  How you performed against 3 players representing Kenya in U-8 category.
Sumit -  I beat them all !
 ( Then whom he conceded those 2 points ? Perhaps to tail enders !)
LCA - Who else you can beat ?
Sumit - Every one, my team mates , my father.
LCA - What about your mother and sister ?
Sumit - My mother ? She can not play chess ! And I always beat my sister !
( His sister Sanjana who got 2nd position in U-14 Girls category in national championship was not ready to accept his claim but agreed that score is about 50% )
LCA- What about Sharanya Iyenger , who is your school mate ?
Sumit - Well some times I win some times she wins.
LCA - In which class you are studying  and how are you doing in studies.
Sumit - I am in 3rd standered and always get first position in the class.
LCA- Thats very good . What else you like to do?
Sumit - I like to dance ! And I like to play piano !
Sumit - I am a poet and write poems !
( Readers have to wait for some time before he writes short stories and a few novels ! )
( But for time being you can find one of his wonderful award winning poem else where. )
LCA- Will you like to play with students of LCA ?
Sumit - Yes I am ready to take on every body !
LCA- Thank you and we wish you success in all your activities.
Sumit - Thank You.

Youg Kids Scale Mountain Peaks

Some young kids of Lucknow achieved great success this week. Ayush Pandey an U-9 player got his maiden FIDE ranking of 1691 ! This indicates his bright future in chess. During state men's championship at Kanpur two young players of Lucknow performed very well. Akash Srivastava a ten year old boy scored credible 5.5/10 in that strong field . But most surprising performance was by our student Swastik Dehran who is still in U-7 category. He scored 6/10 points. In such a strong tournament he won 4 games drew another 4 and lost just 2 games. His last round draw was against a FIDE 1885 player !!
   We congratulate these boys on their performances and wish more success in future.

Match between UPState U-9 and Keny's U-7 National champion

A series of games were played by Ayush Pandey ( UP state U-9 Champ) and Sharanya Iyengar  U-7 girls national champion of Kenya last week. On Sunday Aug 8 Ayush played a mature game. First he shattered Sharnya's q-side pawns then captured one of them. He maintained this advantage inspite of some good dynamic defence by Sharanya and then converted it in a win . On Tuseday too he got advantage in both games ( was piece up in first game) but Sharanya fought well and counter attacked resolutely to win both of them. On Thurseday again Ayush handled opening much better than Sharanaya, who had several weaknesses in pawn structure etc. This time Ayush maintained advantages to win both matches. In another game Ayush lost his queen due to mouse slip. Final score 3-2 in favour of Ayush.
   One can easily draw some conclusions
1-Ayush had better opening preparation and positional understanding. What he lacked was killer stint and played some slopy chess to allowed opponent to get away from good positons in game 2 and 3. He needs to be more tough mentally to perform well at nationals.
2-Sharanya played opening badly and got in trouble in most of games. She must understand that isolated pawns are are too weak to defend in long run. And it is very difficult to create enough counter play tactically, against tough opponent , to neutralize positional weaknesses. But her temperament and fighting spirit were better than Ayush.

Can't I even sleep ?

There is no chess law to prevent me from sleeping !! 
( An exhausted player sleeping during a game at World School Chess )

World Schools Championship

Normally Indian players perform very well in age-group tournaments. But in Turkey we finished with just one bronze in under-7 boys category. Incidently Nimdia Ridit ( India) was youngest participant. He fell asleep after last round game was completed. Then he could not climb himself on victory stand as it was too high for him !!

All the winners got Note-Book computers. Under-7 girls champion found it too heavy to carry so rested a couple of times during long journey from victory stand to waiting parents !! Many players who were out of prize list got chess books. They all enjoyed this well organised tournament.

   

 Players from Russia, Iran and host Turkey dominated championship winning many medals.

Inter School Chess Championship - Lucknow

Modern Indian School Rajaji Puram organised this year's inter school with support of District Chess Sports Association Lucknow. In all 93 players participated in all 4 categories. Number is nothing considering population of city but it better to have something than total inactivity.
Ex-Miniseter Sri Rajesh Yadav and state chess secretary Sri Raizada distributed prizes to following players-
Primary School Section

1-SwastikDehran
2-Vatsal Vora
3-Ayush Pandey
Junior Section
1-Akash Srivastava
2-Vasu Bajpai
3-Bunty
High-School Section
1-Vibhu Bajpai
2-Mithesh Kaladi
3-Shivendra Singh
Intermidiate Section
1-Abhijeet Srivastava
2-Gangesh Tiwari
3-Shivam Shukla
Though many girls took part in this tournament but none could finish in top 3 in their category. It is shocking that organisers did not give any special prizes to girls. How we are going to make chess popular among girls?
    Some of my present and old students got prizes. Swastik won primary group with perfect 5/5 .Among the girls Rishika Bhattacharya with 3.5/5 in junior section and Adarshika Srivastava 3/5 in primary section did reasonably well. Mithesh Kaladi who was expected to win highschool could manage only II place.Ayush Pandey who was expeced to win primary group got IIIrd place with 4/4 points as he could join tournament late and missed first round.