Chequered moves
The Hindu : PAVAN KUMAR H.They won the team championships at the National level CBSE chess tournament MANGALOREThe Rook, Bishop, Knight and Queen are the closest friends of this year’s under 14 national level CBSE chess team champions – Nihal Manjunath, Adith Jagadish, Yashas Salian, Rammohan Bhandari and Akash Harendranath. The ‘famous five’ are eighth standard students of Lourdes Central School and trained by Derik’s Chess School participated in the national chess competition held at Chennai last month. The team scored 19.5 points in the six rounds to win the title. “Every day I practise for three hours at the chess school and sit in front of laptop for two more hours in practising chess. I study previous games of great players on the Internet net and try to solve them online”, says Nihal, the team captain. He doesn’t believe in sparing himself and makes sure he works very hard to sharpen his skills. …More
