Two easy wins for India

The Hindu

NEW DELHI, September 26, 2009
Two easy wins for India

Defending champion India made a good start to its title-defence when
it swept aside Sri Lanka and England by identical 4-0 score-lines in
the first two rounds of the World Youth Under-16 Olympiad at Akhisar,
Turkey.

While second seed India and fellow joint leader fifth seed Georgia won
by the biggest margins, top seed Russia dropped half a point to
lowly-rated Turkey-Girls White and later drew 2-2 with sixth seed
Azerbaijan to slip further in the standings.

The competition follows the game-points system, and not match-points
as adopted in the Olympiad and the World team championship. That means
the margin of each victory assumes great importance in a team’s final
standing.

Leading results:

Second round: India beat England 4-0 (K. Priyadarshan bt Zhao
Yang-Fan; Debashis Das bt Akash Jain; Girish Koushik bt S. Saravanan;
Deepthamsh Reddy bt Samuel Walker); Greece lost to Georgia 0-4;
Turkey-Turkauz bt Turkey-Red 3-1; Azerbaijan drew with Russia 2-2;
Hungary bt Uzbekistan 2.5-1.5.

First round: Russia bt Turkey-Girls White 3.5-0.5; Sri Lanka lost to
India 0-4 (Y. Kuruwitage lost to Priyadarshan; Semuthu Pinto lost to
Aditya Udeshi; Keshan Egodage lost to Girish Koushik; Thisura
Munasinghe lost to Deepthamsh Reddy); Armenia bt Turkey White 3-1;
Turkey-Girls Red lost to Hungary 0.5-3.5; Georgia bt South Africa `B’
4-0.

Top-10 standings (after two rounds): 1-2. Georgia, India (8 points
each), 3. Turkey (7), 4. Armenia (6.5), 5. Hungary (6),
6-7. Azerbaijan, Russia (5.5 each), 8-9. Uzbekistan, Turkey-Red (5
each), 10. Turkey-White (4.5).

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS