GUANGZHOU, China (AFP) – Bespectacled chess player Kim Tae-Gyeong is a member of South Korea’s Asian Games team at the tender age of 11, more than five decades younger than the oldest competitor in Guangzhou. Age is no barrier at the 16th edition of the Games, where around 10,000 athletes are participating in 42 sports [...]

Liem pocketed 7.5 points after nine games, level with eventual gold medalist Kasimdzhanov rustam of Uzbekistan. Liem lost out as he had been defeated by Rustam in their match on November 15. It is the first time chess has become an official sport of ASIAD. ** The nine-man Vietnam Olympic football team, which qualified for [...]

Krishnan Sasikiran kept the Indian hopes alive in the Asian Games chess tournament, while Suryasekar Ganguly, Dronavalli Harika and Tania Sachdev receded a bit on the penultimate day of competition, in Guangzhou today. Indian Grandmaster Sasikiran remained the lone unbeaten participant from the country as he continued his good show with two wins and a [...]

Guangzhou Asian Games 2010 medal tally results: Indian badminton and chess players let down, while Harika Dronavalli wins a bronze in women’s individual chess event. Harika Dronavalli wins a bronze medal for India in women’s individual chess competition in the Asian Games 2010, Guangzhou on Tuesday. Harika defeated Sukandar Irine Kharisma of Iran on Tuesday. [...]

Cue sports stars Pankaj Advani, Geet Sethi and Alok Kumar might not be part of the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, in 2014 as on Monday, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), at its board meeting here, endorsed its earlier decision of bringing down the number of  disciplines from 42 to 35. An even [...]