Members of Sri Jagannath temple servitor community are all cheers as Aparajit Gochhikar bagged silver in the World Amateur Chess Championship which concluded in Greece.
According to Bimal Prasad Mohanty the secretary of the Puri district chess association Aparajita while bagged silver in women event and in the open category she also won a bronze medal.
In the ninth and last round Aparajita forced high rated Tqavadze Giorgi of Georgia to share points and bagged 6.5 points. She registered five win, three draw and suffered two defeat in the nine round
tournament and gained 85 rating points. As many as
64 players were participated in the meet.
With the bronze medal in the open category Aparajita bagged Candidate Master title along with the title she has been directly qualified for the World Amateur Chess Championship 2017 which will be held at Italy, Bimal added
Earlier she had won gold in commonwealth championship and silver the press release said. Kumar Haldar the president of the Puri district chess association and her coach Shyamal Kundu congratulated her on her extraordinary performance.