Diana Mirza wins gold medal for best U13 girl in EU Youth Championships

Sparks

Noted on the Ennis Club blog:

Gold medal for Mirza at EU Youth Championships

Well done to Diana Mirza who won the gold medal for best U13 girl at the recent European Union Youth Chess Championships. Diana finished joint second overall and was best girl by some margin. I cant remember an Irish junior winning a gold medal at a European tournament before.
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and over at IRLChess:

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Diana Mirza recorded a major success, winning a Gold Medal in the U13 event for best girl, finishing joint second overall. Tom O’Gorman finished 6th in the U11 event and Danny Dwyer finished 11th in the U9 event.

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Results up here...

bigtoe7

i saw a message from some one here at lunch time but it has disappeared now saying this was a weak competition and the real eu competition is in czech republic or is it in montenegro ? end of the month . the person with highest score wins gold in a competition and this is not the case here , misleading headline clearly . there was a debate here which every one said there is no difference in natural ability of girls and boys when it comes to playing chess , so if that is the case you can't have your cake and eat it too and try to discriminate based on gender when it suits you .if that is the case then i won gold medal in bray rapid among those with bushy eyebrows ! .

Sparks

bigtoe7 wrote: »

i saw a message from some one here at lunch time but it has disappeared now

Not in this thread you didn't, I'd have gotten an email if you had.

the person with highest score wins gold in a competition and this is not the case here , misleading headline clearly

Nonsense, the headline and the text are very clear. You seem to have a need to denigrate the achievements of an under-13s girl. Why on earth would her achievements threaten you so personally?

bigtoe7

@ sparky. cd99 21oo was the guy who posted here but all his posts have disappeared and don't tell me he did not exists as you quoted him in chess under heading of funding and irish chess .
you are headline is completely FALSE & MISLEADING , if you go into the young lady 's face book page ( i will not provide link but you have to be logged in to facebook to see it) you see many photos of her posing with her latest prize , she got a cup and a certificate but NO gold medal , in fact no one in that competition got a medal , gold or otherwise so how can your headline be true ? . if you had done 1 minute of research like me you would have seen it and would not be spreading misinformation .i think you owe the chess community an apology for misleading headline , also after i said she is a minor lets leave her alone and not discuss her anymore you start this thread just to annoy me .if you want you keep talking about her up to you but i am finished talking about her.

Sparks

bigtoe7 wrote: »

you are headline is completely FALSE & MISLEADING

Just so we're clear, who are you saying is lying? Me, the ICU, Rory Quinn, the Mirza's, or chessresults.com?

if you had done 1 minute of research like me

Setting aside the slightly dodgy suggestion of poking through a minor's facebook pages, the results of real research are very, very clear. The U13 tournament results are as follows:

Rk.|Name|sex|FED|RtgI|Pts.| TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |Rp|K|rtg+/-
1|Muha Miljenko||CRO|1862|7.5|45.5|35.5|36.00|1967|15|19.4
2|Petrov Martin||BUL|1990|7.0|48.0|36.5|35.00|1932|15|-6.4
3|Mirza Diana|w|IRL|1678|7.0|47.0|35.5|35.00|1935|15|33.2

Diana is clearly the highest ranked U13 girl (Miljenko and Martin being boys...). That's what the story says, that's what the facts are.

i think you owe the chess community an apology for misleading headline

Please bigtoe, keep posting, you are to this forum what George Bush was to political satire...

...and besides, you still haven't told us why on earth would her achievements threaten you so personally?



Meanwhile, more positively, some coverage in the local press (the Limerick Post):

Limerick chess prodigy wins European gold
Lynda Foley

A RAHEEN teenager is the new champion of European chess.

Diana Mirza (13) won gold at the European Union Youth Chess Championships in Austria yesterday. She is a member of the St Michael’s Chess Club and has been playing chess since she was four. Diana, whose parents are from Romania, just finished sixth class in Limerick School Project and will begin Coláiste Chiaráin in September.

See this week’s paper for full interview.

And that got covered on Susan Polger's blog as well.

bigtoe7

@ sparky . now that you have found out there was NO gold medal , i was hoping you come clean , admit your mistake and we move on instead of trying to blame it on others and say they were saying it and you just copying them , to their credit icu did not mention gold medal .

Sparks

So she came first, but thats not the gold medal because they used trophies instead of actual medals... and that's enough for you to go on the internet deriding a 12-year-old girl, is it? That she came first in an EU-wide competition, but that's not good enough for you because they used a cup-shaped bit of metal instead of a disk-shaped bit of medal to denote exactly the same placing???

Why are you so personally threatened by this, that you'd act in such an utterly churlish way? Or is nekulturny a label you actually want to have?