Opening ceremony of 16th Asian Games kicks off

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The 16th Asian Games

Rank Country/Region Gold Silver Bronze

1 China 86 35 34
2 Korea 28 21 30
3 Japan 16 37 33
4 Korea,Democratic People`s 5 7 10
5 Chinese Taipei 4 5 16

 

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Will India get gold medal for chess?

 

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Asian Games 2010 Medal Tally : China dominates as India slips to 9th Position

China continues to dominated the 16th Asian Games at home at Guangzhou where as Star shooters of India who shined bright in the Commonwealth Games held in India struggle against the windy conditions in China. Indian shooters disappoint today as they fail to win any medals for the third consecutive days where some better performance by Samaresh Jung saved the day to an extent for India.

Jung missed the men’s 25m standard pistol shoot-off for the bronze by one point in a straight final to finish 7th overall with 569 points from amongst 39 shooters, however his two other teammates, Pemba Tamang and Chandrahas Chaudhary, performed very poorly, shooting only 550 and 549 out of 600 to end up 22nd and 23rd respectively. North Korea won the bronze medal in the combined effort with 1690 points where India's team only managed to score 1168 points where as South Korea won the gold.

Indian squad disappoint in the four-way shoot-off where China’s Jin Yongde won the bronze while the gold and silver went to South Korea’s Hong Seonghwan (575 with 20 tens) and North Korea’s (573 with 14 tens).

India has now slipped on to the 9th position with just 1 Gold medal where China, R.O Korea and Japan rules the roost with 77, 22 & 15 gold medal respectively.


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Will India get gold medal for chess?

China invented Chess, which went to India and the West via Persia.

Western Chess, the same as Japanese Chess and Korean Chess, is a derivative of Chinese Chess.

Don't be fooled by "India invented Chess" propaganda, which is a political claim of British Raj of 19th century.

See: Chessays - Sloan - India vs. China


Quote:

" The Indians themselves are perplexed by the claim that chess was invented by them. Here is what was said in the Indian Historical Quarterly, a serious scholarly journal: Chakravarti, Chintaharan, "Sanskrit Works on the Game of Chess", Indian Historical Quarterly, Calcutta, June, 1938, Vol. 14, No. 2, Part I, p. 275. "Though the game of chess is generally supposed by scholars to be of Indian origin and reference to the game is said to be found in various Indian works from a very early period, Sanskrit works dealing with it and describing its complexity are comparatively rare. As a matter of fact, no early Indian work on the subject is known and until recently the work of scholarship had very few descriptions of the game." This journal also cites certain claims that chess was referred to in various writings by ancient Indian authors. However, it states that this was a common trick in those times. When one wanted to gain an audience for one's ideas, one claimed that such-and-such famous long deceased person said or wrote it. The journal then proceeds to list a number of famous authors who supposedly wrote about chess, and dismisses all of these claims. In conclusion, it is unable to find even one source in Indian literature regarding chess dated earlier than Sulipani in the fifteenth century, AD (more than 900 years after Murray says that chess was invented there)!! "

 

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China invented Chess, which went to India and the West via Persia.

Western Chess, the same as Japanese Chess and Korean Chess, is a derivative of Chinese Chess.

Don't be fooled by "India invented Chess" propaganda, which is a political claim of British Raj of 19th century.

See: Chessays - Sloan - India vs. China


Quote:

" The Indians themselves are perplexed by the claim that chess was invented by them. Here is what was said in the Indian Historical Quarterly, a serious scholarly journal: Chakravarti, Chintaharan, "Sanskrit Works on the Game of Chess", Indian Historical Quarterly, Calcutta, June, 1938, Vol. 14, No. 2, Part I, p. 275. "Though the game of chess is generally supposed by scholars to be of Indian origin and reference to the game is said to be found in various Indian works from a very early period, Sanskrit works dealing with it and describing its complexity are comparatively rare. As a matter of fact, no early Indian work on the subject is known and until recently the work of scholarship had very few descriptions of the game." This journal also cites certain claims that chess was referred to in various writings by ancient Indian authors. However, it states that this was a common trick in those times. When one wanted to gain an audience for one's ideas, one claimed that such-and-such famous long deceased person said or wrote it. The journal then proceeds to list a number of famous authors who supposedly wrote about chess, and dismisses all of these claims. In conclusion, it is unable to find even one source in Indian literature regarding chess dated earlier than Sulipani in the fifteenth century, AD (more than 900 years after Murray says that chess was invented there)!! "

That's wasn't his question.

 

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That's wasn't his question.

I was not about to answer his question tho.

Take the info as a bonus.

 

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I was not about to answer his question tho.

Take the info as a bonus.

Real life conversations with you must be confusing as hell.

 

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The 16th Asian Games

Rank Country/Region Gold Silver Bronze

1 China 97 39 36
2 Korea 29 22 31
3 Japan 17 41 35
4 Korea,Democratic People`s 5 7 10
5 Iran 5 4 8
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