Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures

Asian Youth Championship – a story told in pictures

When you see the beautiful eyes of an eight-year-old girl filled with tears, you think to yourself, is chess really worth it? But when she has forgotten her stupid blunder and starts to play against her next opponent, you realize that she may have lost her game, but she has won something that without chess she could never have experienced." Pictorial impressions from by FM Arash Akbarinia.

Report by FM Arash Akbarinia

When you see the face of a sweet eight-year-old girl, and her beautiful blue eyes are filled with tears, you think to yourself, is chess really worth it, if it causes innocent children to cry? But if you wait a little bit, when she forgets her stupid blunder and starts to play, full of spirit, against her next opponent, you realize that she may have lost her game, but she has won something that without chess she could never have experienced.

The 2008 Asian Youth Chess Championship, which was held last week in the Capital of Iran, Tehran-e-Bozorg, Great Tehran, was full interesting incidents. From happy small boys, running from to and fro in the yard of Iran Chess Federation, to young handsome gentlemen, who were chatting up attractive young ladies. And from very worried mothers, who kept praying during their children’s matches, to stressed fathers, who smoked double their usual quota of cigarettes, while their offspring were battling it out on the chess boards.

In my opinion the best way to give you an impression of all of this is through photos. So, let’s take a brief look at what happened in the 2008 Asian Youth Chess Championship.

Champion of Girls U12 Sara Khademalsharieh of Iran next to her mother and father

Saeed Tariq Al Taher from the UAE, Boys U8

Diana Omurbekova from Kyrgyzstan Girls, U10

Who is this smart young gentleman? Let me check – Siavash Vojdani from Iran Boys U10

Nomen est omen – Sweety Patel from India, Girls U10

Munirjon Sharipov from Tajikistan, Boys U8

What stylish and cute mademoiselles! Iranian Kimia Fatehi (pink purse), Girls U8, and her cousin.

Champion of Boys U10 Diptayan Ghosh from India. He is very polite and sweet.

Suhila Muhsen from Iraq, Girls U10

Khalil Mousavi, Vice-Champion of Boys U10, with his coach and older brother Milad Mousavi

Ho Jin Jung from South Korea, Boys U12

Tran Le Dan Thuy from Vietnam, Girls U12

Iranian Nima Javanbakht, Vice-Champion of Boys U12. He had five points from his first five games, but in the next four rounds he just won one!

Sach D. Ranasinghe from Sri Lanka Girls U14

Wei-Yi Victoria Chan from Singapore Girls U16

Altanolzii Enxtuul from Mongolia, Girls U16

Vice-Champion of Girls U16 Mitra Hejazipour from Iran, next to her is her mother.

Arslan Otchiyev from Turkmenistan, Boys U18

Did you like Iranian food?

Well, this family of Uzbekistanis does...

Two of these girls ordered Kebab and the other two fish

I'm sorry, my fork is not working...

Homayoun Tofighi from Iran, convincing champion of Boys U18

Champion of Boys U8 Arya Omidi and his father.

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