16 players share lead in Kalinga Open Chess
25 Sep 2009,

Top seed Soumya Ranjan Mishra shared the lead with 15 others, scoring three points from as many rounds in the 1st Kalinga Open All-India Rating Chess Tournament at OAS Association Bhawan in Bhubanesw... Read More..

No place for OCA in BCCI committees
25 Sep 2009,

Orissa Cricket Association (OCA) suffered a major humiliation yeasterday as the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chose not to include the state body or any of its representative in any of... Read More..

Debashis leaves for Youth Chess Olympiad
25 Sep 2009,

A five-member Indian team, including promising Orissa boy Debashis Das, left Chennai yesterday to participate in the World Youth (under-16) Chess Olympiad beginning at Akhisar-Manisa, Turkey today. O... Read More..

Padmini bounces back to 2nd position
25 Sep 2009,

Orissa WIM Padmini Rout regained the second position with win over S Harini in the eighth round of the 24th National Junior Girls Chess Championship at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai today. Asia... Read More..

Bhakti Kulkarni shatters Padmini Rout`s title hope
24 Sep 2009,

Goa Candidate Master Bhakti Kulkarni shattered Orissa Woman International Master Padmini Rout’s title hope by winning the crucial clash between the two in the seventh round of the 24th National Junio... Read More..

P M Mohanty sufferes upset in first round
24 Sep 2009,

Two times National `B` champion Pabitra Mohan Mohanty suffered a major upset when when down to Cuttack boy Saswat Khuntia in the opening round of the 1st Kalinga Open All-India Rating Chess Tournamen... Read More..

Satyapragyan promises Orissa its first GM title by 2010
23 Sep 2009,

Chess is enjoying a boom time in Orissa. To the extent that it has made king cricket envious. But chess needs to sustain its meteoric rise. ``When can we have our first Grandmaster,`` asks the state ... Read More..

Orissa campaign in Natl billiards meets pre-mature end
22 Sep 2009,

Orissa’s campaign in the 76th Senior National Billiards Championship met a premature end with top two cueists of the state getting eliminated in the group league round at Agra today. State champio... Read More..

Expelled OSCA wakes up with new plans
21 Sep 2009,

Six months after being expelled by All India Chess Federation (AICF) for its acts of omission and commission, Orissa State Chess Association (OSCA) seems to be mending its style of functioning. It... Read More..

Junior National Chess gives Orissa mixed results
21 Sep 2009,

Seven players from Orissa experienced mixed luck in the second and third rounds of the 39th Boys and 24th Girls Junior (u-19) Chess Championship at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai today. Among th... Read More..