It's been a hiatus from blogging for almost two weeks, so let's get going again from where we stopped. Let's go back to Subic, the battle site of the recently concluded Asian Youth Chess Championship 2011.
As we all know, sports is all about competition and comparison. In sports, we don't just measure ourselves. We always measure ourselves in comparison with our counterparts.
And so, by any comparison, our Filipino youth generally had a difficult time slugging it out against their Asian counterparts. We produced only One Gold Medal, courtesy of FM Jan Emmanuel Garcia (Open U-16), which was expected of him since he was the top seed in his age group category.
It was the young guns from India who dominated the field, almost sweeping all the Gold Medals at stake! India won 10 of the 12 Gold Medals awarded (Standard, Individual). With the 44-player Indian contingent and dominating medal haul, it's as if India hosted the event. Or shall we say Indians are already very much at home in the Philippines, with the Filipino and Indian cultures long intertwined?
Of the 20 participating chess federations (countries), only three won the Gold: India, Iran, and the Philippines. If I were the publicist of the National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP), I would highlight this angle: Philippines is one of only three countries that won Gold in the Asian Youth Chess Championship 2011.
Is that comforting enough?
Or is it better to assess ourselves again - in comparison with the direction and development of our counterparts - so that we could win more Gold in the future?
Let us review the PERFORMANCE/FINAL RANKING of each Filipino participant in the tournament:
OPEN U-18
OPEN U-16OPEN U-14OPEN U-12OPEN U-10OPEN U-8GIRLS U-18GIRLS U-16GIRLS U-14GIRLS U-12GIRLS U-10GIRLS U-8
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