SAMBALPUR 11-Jun-2010 131
Fide Master Soumya Ranjan Mishra (Bhubaneswar) won the title in the State Senior Championship, which concluded at Gangadhar Meher College here yesterday. In the 11-round championship, hosted by Koshal Chess Academy, Soumya topped the table with 9.5 points.
Cuttack teenager Mohammad Ashraf finished runner-up, while Rabindra Ojha and Rakesh Kumar Nayak occupied the third and fourth positions respectively. The top four finishers qualified to represent Orissa in the National `B` Championship to be held later this year. Jharsuguda MLA Naba Das gave away the prizes at the closing function.
Final standings (Top 20): 1. Soumya Ranjan Mishra (9.5), 2. Mohammad Ashraf, 3. Rabindra Ojha (9 each), 4. Rakesh Kumar Nayak (8.5), 5. Debasish Chakrabarty, 6. Manas Ranjan Parida, 7. P K Bihari, 8. Biswajit Nayak, 9. Sudhir Kumar Behera (8 each), 10. Sumit Kumar Banerjee, 11. Dasharathi Sahoo, 12. Saswat Mohanty, 13. N K Purohit, 14. Partha Sarathi Satpathy (7.5 each), 15. Jatindra Dube, 16. Rajat Kumar Sahoo, 17. Pradip Kumar Das, 18. Bishnu Charan Sahoo, 19. Sushant Kumar Sarangi, 20. Shyam Sundar Sharma (7 each).
