Participants less, trophies more in KIIT Chess Fest
Bhubaneswar: IM Swayams Mishra of KIIT (Odisha) bagged the runners-up title in the All India Rapid Chess event of the 7Th KIIT Chess Festival at KIIT Campus here, being organised by Ganjam District Chess Association in association with KIIT University. Swayams bagged the trophy along with cash prize of Rs 40,000 and the champion’s trophy claim by IM Swapnil Dhopade of Railways (Maharastra) and received Rs. 75,000. Odisha’s promising star FM Rakesh Kumar Jena got 9th position and richer by Rs. 8,000.
In All India Open Rapid the number of participants were 33 including 11 of Odisha. The significance of the event was the number of prize winners were more than the participant’s number. The festival was earlier displayed in the month of August duly at Odisha chess and All India chess Federation official website with four categories stating, All India Open Rapid with a prize money of Rs. 3 lakhs from October 2 to 4 with 30 prizes and 12 other age group prizes , All India FIDE Rating below ElO 2000 with a prize money of Rs. 3 lakhs from October 2 to 5 with 20 prizes, seven rating category, five unrated, two veteran, women and 12 other age group prizes, All India Open Blitz (speed chess) with a prize money of Rs. 1 lakhs on October 5 with 20 prizes and 12 other age group prizes, All India FIDE Rating below ElO 1700 with a prize money of Rs. 5 lakhs from October 6 to 9 with 40 prizes, five rating category, five unrated, two veteran, women and 16 other age group prizes, a total prize money of Rs. 12 lakhs.
After some days All India FIDE Rating below ElO 1700 was postponed to December from 25-27 by organizer due to unavoidable reasons. It created some dissatisfaction among participants those who were eager to participate in all 4 categories because of Dashahara holidays. The two categories All India Open Rapid with 42 prizes and All India FIDE Rating below ElO 2000 with 46 prizes were started on 2 October at same time in two different halls. In All India FIDE Rating below ElO 2000 the total participants were 107 including 15 unrated players .There are 56 players from Odisha including 1 participant from Kiit and 20 From KISS. Due to less participants both the events were grand failure for Ganjam District chess Association.
Gati Krushna Div-B quarterfinal from Oct 9
Bhubaneswar: The knockout round matches of the 11th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-B Football league would begins at Unit-1 High School Ground here from October 9. Kalinga Sporting, Royal Physical Association, KIIT University, Brahmeswar Sporting, Tiger Youth Club, Chandrashekharpur Athletic Association, Ekamra Sporting and MS Eleven are the eight teams qualified for the quarterfinal round matches. In the quarterfinal match, Kalinga Sporting would meet Chandrashekharpur Athletic Association on October 9. The final match would be held on October 15.
Odisha Civil Services Kabaddi team announced
Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Civil Services Kabaddi team would leave from here on Sunday to participate in the All India Civil Services Kabaddi Championship to be held at Rajib Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Indira Gandhi Sports Complex in Puducherry from October 8. Hara Prasad Biswal would lead the team as captain. Upendra Pati, Kedar Nath Barik, Prakash Chandra Rath, Mihir Ranjan Patnaik (Khurda), Suchitra Khatai (Puri), Rajani Kanta Mishra (Saranga), Gynaranjan Panda (Kalahandi), Sourajaya Keshari Mohanty (Jaypur), Surendra Kumar Nayak (Rayagada), lingaraj Sahu (Gajapati) and Ramakrushna Behera (Dhenkanal) are the team members. Pravat Kumar Patra and Suresh Chandra Sarangi would accompany the team as coach and manager respectively.