Bharat Rakshak

Later life

Miss Fatima, also a servant of Sir Umar, had won the British Ladies Championship in 1933 by a remarkable three-point margin, scoring ten wins, one draw, and no losses.[1][18] She said that Sultan Khan, upon his return to India, felt as though he had been freed from prison.[19] In the damp English climate, he had been continually afflicted with malaria, colds, influenza, and throat infections, often arriving to play with his neck swathed in bandages.[20][21] Sir Umar died in 1944, leaving Sultan Khan a small farmstead, where he lived for the rest of his life.[4][16][20] Ather Sultan, his eldest son, recalled that he would not coach his children at chess, telling them that they should do something more useful with their lives.[20]
Sultan Khan died of tuberculosis in Sargodha, Pakistan (the same district where he had been born) on April 25, 1966.[4][16][22]

durvasa wrote:22 GMs as per FIDE . Good but not good enough

Final round disasters may have taken a toll on our number of medals but India has retained the World Under-16 title this time via S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai in the World Youth Chess Championship that ended at Antalya, Turkey on Nov 23, 2009. The fight for the 12 titles was fierce with no nation taking more than two overall (open/ girls). Among girls and open, no country could win more than one title. Overall, Russia won two, Peru two, China two, Iran two, Australia,Israel, Azerbaijan and India one each. Scanning the results and placings of nations, China has clearly taken note of the previous placings at Georgia 2005 and Vietnam 2008 and are working to get better of us. They have fielded more players in all the groups. There are more Chinese in each of the sections than Indians. Sethuraman’s title came after a defeat he suffered to Vidit Gujrathi. He did not hear Vidit’s draw offer and he paid that price. Vidit comes from Nasik (Mah) and took a draw in the last round against IM Illya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine thinking wrongly that it was progressive score tie-break. Sethuraman’s tie-break score was better as sum of opponents rating tie-break was used by the arbiters. Clearly India dominated this section and Vidit was the silver medal winner. Sethuraman comes from a chess family. His father S. Panayappan teaches chess.

Sethuraman is a twelfth standard student from Velammal School. He is an International Master and also won four National titles and a GM norm. His latest championship was the National Junior title. His maiden world title has made his friends and supporters delighted. “He was waiting for this for the last five years since Belfort 2005,” said Panayappan. He is now departing for the National ‘A’ as this is the tight season for chess playing. His younger brother and mother are also chess World Youth Chess Championship, Antalya, Turkey… players. Chess runs in their family. Since turning to a Ukrainian Grandmaster. his performances started to get better, said Panayappan. Overseas trainers are normal for Indians these days. Vidit uses a Israeli trainer, others like Negi use Elizbar Ubilava of Georgia.

Three players who missed medals and titles were Vaibhav Suri of Delhi, Adhiban of Chennai and Bansi Prathima of Hyderabad. All were last round victims. Yet, India won three silver medals. Besides Vidit, Ivana Furtado of Goa, former two time Under-8 champion settled for silver this time in the Under-10 section. Karthikeyan Murali who learns chess from M. Velayudham of Bloom Chess Academy in Chennai finished second in the Under-10 section. He actually tied for the first place. Among our bronze medal winners were G.V. Sai Krishna of Vijayawada who tied for the second place and finished third on tie-break in the Under-14 section. After a poor start, 0.5/2, many would give up. But Saranya, did not lose heart and finished strongly with a 4/4 score to win the bronze medal in the Girls Under-14 section. Our six medal winners: S.P. Sethuraman (TN, Under-16, gold), Vidit Gujrathi (Mah, Under- 16, silver), Karthikeyan Murali (TN, Under- 10, silver), Ivana Furtado (Goa, Girls Under- 10, silver), G.V. Sai Krishna (AP, Under-14, bronze), J. Saranya (TN, Girls Under-14, bronze). India did not do as well as Georgia 2005 or Vietnam 2008 but the six medal haul is no mean achievement. One title, three silver and two bronze medals means we are fairly consistent in picking up medals. Though no reason is required for a mild reduction in medal count, Grand Master Ramesh of Chennai said many of our players played in higher age group this year and you can expect better results next year.

PTI - Thursday, June 10, 2010 21:53 IST
Kolkata: The Indian trio of Rahul Banerjee, Mangal Singh Champia and Jayanta Talukdar clinched the men's team recurve gold medal with a 218-214 win over the US in the final of the World Cup archery (Stage II) in Antalya, Turkey today.

According to information received here from the Archery Association of India (AAI), the Indian trio proved too good for the Americans -- Brady Ellison, Richard Johnson and Vic Wunderle -- and maintained the lead throughout the final to win the first gold medal of the series.

At the Porec World Cup, India had settled for the silver bowing to Italy in the silver.

India led 54-50 in the first end of six arrows to take a commanding four point lead.

In the second end of six arrows, however, the Indians surrendered three points (51-54) to enjoy a lead of just a point.

India regained five points lead in the third end of six arrows with Banerjee and Champia hitting bull''s eye twice each to take the score to 57-53, thus giving an overall 162-157 lead.

In the final end of six arrows, the Indians scored 56 as against their opponents' 57 to win the contest at 218-214.

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Along the same lines is the endeavor to breathe new life into chess in Gujarat – the Swarnim Gujarat Chess Mahotsav. The Mahotsav opened today with me facing the King of Chess, World Champion Vishwanathan Anand, across the board. The aim of the Mahotsav is to popularize chess at every school across the length and breadth of Gujarat. Like the individual drops of rain, when every student takes to chess, Gujarat will surely produce a shower of talents in the world arena. Who knows, the next Vishwanathan Anand may be from our state!

Varoon Shekhar wrote:Where are the Indians? And if Indians are not playing TT, what sport are they into?

joshvajohn wrote:Possibly someone has to think like Modi in creating investing atmosphere on Football teams in India!

satyam wrote:Saina Nehwal wins the Singapore Open Super Series.

joshvajohn wrote:The questions might be whether this will give an immediate and huge profit? Will the audience in India be interested to watch such matches?
I think one can see the struggles with the hockey teams struggling for reasonable support!

if Modi thinks about it, it will be great! There is a dearth of any genuine national interest to bring neglected Indian sports to international competing standard among these people including Pawar or Gill or any of these political or other leaders who wish to lead the Indian sports.

by carl_t
You think India is going to do well at football if everyone starts playing barefoot?