Junior Camp at Nashik – Unofficial report

A selection / coaching camp was organised at Nashik from April 28-30 for the rights to represent India at the World Youth Championships to be held in France in August later this year.

 

There was only one u-26 team which selected itself automatically.

 

There were 12 pairs vying for spots on the u-21 team. 

 

The team that represented India at the last world youth championships qualified for the next phase automatically(and afaik, for the World Youth Championships). 

 

From the remaining 10 pairs – 4 from Raibidpura and 6 from Bangalore, 4 pairs qualified for the next phase (2 each from Raibidpura and Karnataka).

 

A round robin was held on the last day comprising of teams that made it to the next phase – Bangalore, Raibidpura, India under-26 and India under-21.

 

Rohit, Krishna, Kalpana and Vidya from Raibidpura, who trained with me for over a month during March and April, won the round robin comfortably, beating the u-26 team from Bengal 28-0, Karnataka 28-14, and losing to the India u-21 team by a narrow margin of 4 imps.

 

There were also 16 u-15 children who attended the camp. 14 from Raibidpura (shortlisted from 28 who started learning on Mar. 30 from me), an 8 year old boy from Mumbai and Aniruddha (a 12 year old from Bangalore), 

 

Parimal Vahalia held a session on opening leads.

Priyaranjan Sinha held a session on declarer play.

Chandrashekhar held a session on bidding basics.

I held a session on drawing inferences from every action at the table.

 

Wishing all the selected players the best for the future. Hope they make good use of the time till August, and make India proud at France.