Amino shines in Bhubaneswar Football league
Bhubaneswar : A double goal haul by Amino Kannu of Friends and Friends Club powered the team to beat Friends Paradise by 2-0 goals in the group-D league match of the 10th Gatikrushna Memorial Bhubaneswar Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Monday.
From the starting Friends and Friends dominated the match, in the 16th minute Amino Kannu netted the first goal. After the change of sides, Amino stocked again in the 55th minute and team registred a comfortable win in their first appearance in the league. Chandrakanta Barik, Durga Madav Acharya, Pradipta Kumar Nayak and Sarada Prasana Sahu were the officials for the match. In the group-A league match on Tuesday, Netaji SRI would meet Bajarangabali Club Ghatikia.
Twenty-nine playing cards tourney held
Bhubaneswar : The Acharya Vihar Parisad organised a day-long Bridge and Twenty-nine Playing Cards Tournament at the Parisad Hall here on Sunday which received an overwhelming response. More than 100 senior citizens participated in the meet. Kashinath Patra and partner Balakrushna Mishra emerged champion in the bridge event, while BD Raychoudhury and Debasis Pradhan bagged the runners-up trophy.
Similarly, in the twenty-nine event, Ashok Das and SJ BHagabananda claimed the top prize and Gopal Mishra and Kunjabihari Tripathy grabbed the runners-up trophy. Odisha Bridge Association secretary Bhimsen Pradhan conducted the tournament. He was assisted by Ashwin Jena, Gangadhar Sahu, Rama Chandra Kundu, Harekrushna Behera, Bimal Das, Ashok Das, Rabindra Mohan Das and Khetra Mohan Das. Bhubaneswar (Central) MlA Bijay Kumar Mohanty distributed the prizes as the chief guest in the closing ceremony.
Winning or losing is not that important. The players should play with true spirit of sports, said the Parishad President Siddharth Prasad Das and Secretary Bhagwat Prasad Das.
Girya maintains solo lead in Women Chess
Bhubaneswar: Russian WGM Girya Olga leads bagged two points at the end of the second round and maintained her overnight lead in the AICF-KIIT Cup International Category Women Chess Championship being held at KIIT Campus here on Monday. Olga facing the Modern Benoni of Mary Ann ripped through the defenses very quickly. A pawn move on the to d6 square on the 20th opened the a2-h7 diagonal and pressure on the King bishop file, won her a piece on the 25th move. Mary Ann threw in the towel on the 33rd move when further simplification lead to nowhere and the material deficit was threatening.
local favorite WGM Padmini Rout played a variation in Advanced Caro Kann against Armenian lilit Mkrtchian , used by Tal against Botvinnik in there famous World Championship match in 1960.lilit unperturbed by the reputation of the variation went on to win a pawn on the 16th move.