FULL NAME: Rajesh Kumar Nayak
GENDER: Male
BORN: August 8, 1996 at Puri (Official date), 5 August, 1996 (Facebook date)
FAMILY: Prafull Kumar Nayak (Father), Sarojini Nayak (Mother)
HOME ADDRESS: Sangram Club Lane, Kumbharapada, Puri-2, Odisha, India.
EDUCATION: Studied DAV School, Chaibasa and Samanta Chandra Sekhar Autonomour College, Puri
FIDE ID: 35017152
FIDE RATING: 1789 as on April 15, 2014

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Finished runner-up in the 8th Rotary All Odisha Open Chess Tournament at Hotel Holiday Resort in Puri on 26 August 2024.
*     Won the blitz title in the Odisha State Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships, held at I-Hub, Patia, Bhubaneswar on 25-26 February 2024.
*     Finished runner-up in the 62nd Odisha State Senior Fide Rating Open Chess Championship, held at Balasore Club in Balasore from 5-8 November 2022.
* Achieved a hat-trick by winning 3rd successive title at the 60th Odisha State Senior Open Chess Championship, held in Balasore from 1-5 Oct, 2019.
*     Finished runner-up in the All Odisha Open Chess Tournament, held at Sanskruti Bhavan in Puri on Nov 10-11, 2018.
*     Retained the title in the 59th Odisha State Senior Fide Rating Open Chess Championship, held at Boudh Indoor Stadium in Boudh from Oct 26-30, 2018.
*     Won the title in the Odisha State Under-25 Chess Championship, held at Bhubaneswar from August 3 to 5, 2018.
*     Won the title in the 1st Maa Samaleswari All-Odisha Open Chess Tournament, held at Officers` Club, Rail Nagar, Sambalpur from March 30 to April 1, 2018.
*     Captured the title in the Odisha State Senior Chess Championship, held at Saraswati Sisu Bidya Mandir, Unit-8, Bhubaneswar from June 13 to 17, 2017.
*     Won the individual title in the Utkal University Inter-College Chess Tournament at Madhu Sudan Law College in Cuttack on Sept 12, 2016.
*     Finished runner-up in the Odisha State Youth (U-25) Chess Championship, held at Town Hall in Boudh from July 21 to 23, 2014.
*     Finished runner-up in the open category of the State Junior (Under-19) Chess Championship at Bhubaneswar on April 16, 2014.

NATIONAL:
*     He was part of the Puri Senior team that finished runners-up in the 18th National Cities Team Chess Championship, held at Kalarabanka village in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha from August 6 to 9, 2017.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     Achieved his first International Master (IM) Norm at the Teplice Open International Tournament, held in Teplice, Czech Republic from 15-23 June 2024.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 18 April 2014
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 26 August 2024