Master Sarthak Debata, (Rourkela) of Odisha clinched the title of 7th Bhubaneswar All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 for below 1600 by scoring 7.5 points and Rs.25000/-, 1st Runner up is Priyanka Routray from Odisha by scoring 7.5 pts bagged Rs.20,000/- and 2nd Runner up Swastik Sourav Sahoo of Odisha collected Rs.15,000/-

The 7th Bhubaneswar All India Fide Rating Chess Tournament-2016 for below 1600 has been organized by Khordha District Chess Association from 16th to 18th September 2016 at Hotel Empires, Prize Distribution function started at 06:00 pm on 18th September 2016 (Sunday) in the same venue. Chief Guest for the Event, Mr.Ranjan Mohanty – Vice President of All Odisha Chess Association, Sri Subhasis Patnaik Secy., Khorda District Chess Association & Saroj Kishore Behera, Jt Secy Khorda District Chess Association, Three Arbiters for the event Anandh Babu VL-Chief Arbiter, Tapas Mohanty-Deputy Chief and Santosh Mohapatra conducted the tournament smoothly.

Totally 85 prizes and 21 Trophies were distributed, breakups for the event are Main Prizes 30, Rating Category prizes 08, Age group for Under 07, 09 and 11 Boys & Girls, Special Unrated top 15 prizes were given.

International Master P. Shyamnikhil of Tamil Nadu clinched 5th Keshabananda Das open 2016 by scoring 7.5 points & took home Rs.75,000/- (seventy five thousand only).

International Master Swayams Mishra of Odisha became half point behind the champion by scoring 7 points & pocketed a cash prize of Rs. Fifty Thousand. IM VAV Rajesh of AAI became 2nd runners up by scoring 7 points & took away Rs. Thirty Five Thousand only. In top board IM P.Shyamnikhil drew with IM VAV Rajesh. In second board IM R. Ramnath Bhubnesh drew with IM Swayams Mishra . Odia girl Smaraki Mohanty got 15th position & won cash prizes of Rs. Nine Thousand. Rakesh Ku. Nayak, Biswajit Nayak, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Rabindra Kumar Ojha got 15th, 23rd, 24th, 25th & 27th position in top merit thirty. All the winners collected cash prizes from Chief Guest Sj. Sarat Chandra Misra, IPS(Retd.) , Former Director General of Police,Govt. of Odisha, Sri Subhasis Patnaik, Secy. Khordha District Chess Association & Sri Saroj Kishore Behera, Jt.Secy. Khordha District Chess Association. Three arbiters VL Anand Babu, Tapas Mohanty & Santosh Mohapatra conducted the championship smoothly without any dispute.

Round 8, GM Venkatesh M.R., 2454 of Tamilnadu lost from IM Shyaamnikhil P, 2421 of Tamilnadu

In board no.10 FM Purushothaman T, AP beat WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, 2135. Board no.4 Muthaiah AI of Tamilnadu drew with IM Ramnath, Tamilnadu, Bo.5 Lokesh N, Tamilnadu drew with IM Anurag Mhamal, Bo.6 Chirag Satkar drew with IM Koshy Vargueese, ONGC, Bo.11 WFM Rutumbara Bidhar, odisha drew with Rajendra Kumar Sahu, 2107, Odisha & Board No. 13 Smaraki Mohanty, 1868 of Odisha beat Ansuman Samal, 2052, Odisha.
After 8th Round - IM Shyamnikhil P of Tamilnadu leads with 7 points, IM Swayms Mishra, IM Rajesh VAV in 2nd & 3rd spot with 6.5 points. 13th seed Sekar, B, IM Ramnath Bhuvanesh R, IM Anurag Mhamal, Goa & Muthaiah, AI of Tamilandu with 6 points.

Round 7, (Top 3 board drew)

Bo.1 IM Anup Deshmukh, LIC drew with IM Swayams Mishra. Bo.2 GM Venkatesh M.R., PSPB drew with Muthaiah AI, 2294, Tamilnadu & in Board 3 IM Nurag Mhamal drew with IM Rajesh VAV.
In Board no.21 Rajsantosh Panda, 1582, Odisha beat Mahitosh Dey, 1964, Odisha
In Board no.26 Sibi, Visal R, 1724, Tamilnadu lost from Swapnil Sen, 1499, West Bengal

Round 6,

seven players are leading with 5 points each including top seed IM Swayams Mishra, GM M.R.Venkatesh, IM Anup Deshmukh, IM Anurag Mhamal, IM Shyamnikhil, IM VAV Rajesh & Al Muthaiah. Six players are in second spot by scoring 4.5 points each including IM R. Ramnath Bhubnesh, IM Suvrajit Saha, IM B.T.Murlikrishnan, WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Biswajit Nayak, A.Harsini. Fifteen players are in 3rd spot by scoring 4 points each. In top board IM Swayams Mishra drew with IM Shyamnikhil, 2nd Board AI Muthaiah drew with IM Anurag Mhamal, Goa, 5th Board Biswajit Nayak, Odisha drew with IM BT Murali Krishnan of Railways.
Bo. 11 A Harshini, 1896, Tamilnadu defeated N Surendran, 2103, Tamilnadu; Bo.14 Aditya S Samant, 1800, MAH beat Anusuman Samal, 2052, Odisha. Bo.16 Mahitosh Dey, 1964 lost from CR Aasha, 1771 of Tamilnadu & Bo.20 Rabindra Kumar Ojha, 1876 of Odisha lost from Rajesh Kumar Nayak, 1651, Odisha.

Round 5,

Biswajit Nayak, 2013, beat Rakesh Kumar Nayak, 2155 of Odisha. Board No.16 Sambit Panda, 1861 (former National U7 Champion) beat Malleswara Rao, 2050 of Andhra Pradesh. Gunanidhi Bhoi of Nalco beat Krishna Karthick, N, 1811 of Andhra Pradesh.In top board IM Anurag Mhamal drew with IM Swayams, Board No.3 IM Murali Krishna BT of Railways drew with IM Rajesh VAV, AAI, Board No.6 Swaraj Palit of Jharkhand drew with IMSuvrajit Saha, West Bengal & Board no.9 WGM Kirna Manisha Mohanty of LIC drew with Harshini A, 1896 of Tamilnadu.

Round 4,

Board no.3 Surendra N, 2103 of Tamilnadu drew with IM Murali Krishna BT of Railways. Board No.14 CM Shahil Dey of Assam (current U-9 National Champion) drew with Ansuman Samal, 2052 of Odisha.

After 3rd Round

eight players were leading with 3 points each including four Odia players International Master Swayams Mishra, Women Grandmaster Kiran Manisha Mohanty , Rakesh Kumar Nayak & Biswajit Nayak. 25th seed Biswajit Nayak made an upset by defeating 10th seed International Master Anup Deshmukh of LIC, Maharastra. Rakesh Kumar Nayak defeated current National U-9 Boys champion Candidate Master Shahil Dey of Assam. Seven players are following 2.5 points each in second spot. 17th seed N.Surendran created an upset by defeating Grand Master M.R.Venkatesh of Tamil Nadu.

2nd Round

twenty players were leading with 2 points each. In Board No.8 senior coach of S.R. Chess centre, 32nd seed Sri Rabindra Mohan Ojha created an upset by beating 9th seed International Master Suvrajit Saha of West Bengal.

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FIDE Trainers’ Commission (TRG) FIDE Trainers’ Seminar Bhubaneshwar

The lectures were given by Lanka Ravi, IM, FST & Sekhar Chandra Sahu, IM, FST

FIDE Instructor

Ranjan Mohanty, Cuttack

FIDE Instructor

S.R. Pattnaik, Cuttack

FIDE Instructor

Gourahari Mohapatra, KIIT

National Instructor

Aparajita Gochhikar, KIIT

(L-R) GM Artemiev Vladislav; Champion GM Xiong Jeffery, USA; GM Sunilduth Lyna Narayanan, IND

(L-R) WIM Nandhidhaa Pv, IND; WGM Saduakassova Dinara, KAZ; WIM Dordzhieva Dinara, RUS;

Foreign Players : Open (55) Girls (39)

From ODISHA (GIRLS) : WCM Saina Salonika

From ODISHA (OPEN) : Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, FM Rakesh Kumar Jena

WCM Saina Salonika, KIIT finished runner-up in the 30th National (U-13) Girls Chess Championship, at Rajpath Club in Ahmedabad.

After 9th Round (Top 10)

Mr. Gobinda Chandra Mohapatra, Treasurer, All Odisha Chess Association being appointed by All India Chess Federation (AICF) as Head of Indian Delegates for Commonwealth Chess Championship 2016 which will be held at Citrus Hotel, Waskaduwa, Sri Lanka from 30 July to 07 August 2016.

Official

GC Mohapatra, Treasurer, AOCA

Open

WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, LIC

U-18

Smaraki Mohanty, KIIT

U-14

Anwesha Mishra, Cuttack

U-20

Baivab Mishra, Puri

WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty & three up coming players Baivab Mishra, Puri; Smaraki Mohanty, KIIT; Anwesha Mishra, Cuttack ( Gold medalist in Asian youth (U-14) Girls Category 2016, Ulaanbaatar, Mangolia in 6 - 14 Apr ) are also participating in this championship.

Best of Luck ! Come back with more Medals for the Nation..