Indian teams won the Under-7, 9, 11 and 15 age categories while Uzbekistan won the Under-13 age group and Iran won the Under-17 age group in the boys division of the Asian Schools Chess Championships over the 29-31 July weekend on Tornelo. Close to 900 boys and girls from 25 countries saw action. See report of Girls Division. Visit chess-results.com for round by round results and to download games.
Iran team-A won the under-17 team championship with 26 points for the gold followed by India-B with 25 points for silver and Philippines-A with 23 points for bronze. India-A finished with 24 points but regulations state that a country can win only one team trophy per category.
The Iran team-A is composed of Alireza Bosagh Zadeh, Hamed Behroozi Moghaddam, Mahan Ramezani and Arian Baradaran Tamadon. India Team-B is composed of Kamotra Soham, L. Srihari, Vedant Nagarkatte and Chouhan Vrashank. Philippines team-A is composed of Jeremy Marticio, jave Mareck Peteros, Robick Vohn K. Villa and Jasper Faeldonia.
India-A won the under-15 age category by a wide margin with 29 points for gold followed by Indonesia team-A with 23.5 for silver and Iran team B with 23 points for the bronze. Actually India-B garnered 24 points but shared the award of India Team-A. The India Team-A is composed of IM M. Pranesh, Kapur Shubh, FM S. Harshad and Shiv Shome.
In the Under-13 category, Uzbekistan team-A won gold with 27 points followed by Iran-A with 25.5 and India team-B with 25 points. The Uzbek team-A is composed of Bakhrom Bakhrillaev, Akbarali Abdulkhakimov, Miraziz Kuziev and Shakhrombek Karimov.
India team-A dominated the under-11 category with 26 points for gold followed by Iran team-A with 23.5 points for silver and Kyrgyzstan with 21.5 for bronze. The India team-A is composed of Krishna Goutham, Rajkhowa Mrinmoy, G. Aakash and Ethan Vaz. The teams of India-B scored 24 points and Iran-B scored 22 points and share the awards of their sister teams.
India team-B won the under-9 category with 26 points followed by Mongolia with 24.5 and Iran-A with 23.5. The India team-B is composed of Ganguly Aryaman, Pranav Mithun, Arpit Shah Aarav and Akhil Prasad Sri. India-A tied at 24.5 points and shared the award of their sister team.
India team-A won the under-7 category with 28 points for gold followed by Iran-A with 21.5 for silver and Philippines-A with 20 points for bronze. The India team-A is composed of Chauhan Avirat, Ramakrishnan Rahul, Arun Isshaan and Johari Tanush. India-Ba finished with 26.5 points and shares the award with their sister team. Iran-B finished with 20 points and shared the award of their sister team