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Prakruti Rout (Cuttack), Rudranarayan (Puri), Sunyasakta Satpathy (Khurda) and Sidhant Mohapatra (Bhadrak) won titles in the Odisha State Under-9 and Under-19 Chess Championships, which concluded here at Srusti Academy of Management today.
Prakruti emerged champion in under-9 girls category with 5.5 points each out of a possible seven. There was a three-way tie for the top slot with top seed Aditi Mohanty and Adhisha Das (all Cuttack) also logging 5.5 points each. Eventually second seed Prukruti claimed the crown on Buchholz tie-break score, while Aditi settled as runner-up.
