FULL NAME: Durga Prasad Mohapatra
GENDER: Male
BORN: June 6, 1969
PARENTS: Dr Gopal Chandra Mohapatra (Father), Shantilata Mohapatra (Mother).
HOME ADDRESS: Plot No 368, Behind East Point Public School, Rasulgarh, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
E-MAIL: dpmahapatra2000@gmail.com
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Diploma in Pharmacy and MBA
PROFESSION: Freelance chess coach since 1989. Claims to be working as the chief coach of Goodricke National Chess Academy in Kolkata.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

AS PLAYER:
*     Played competitive chess from 1986 to 1992
*     His best performance was a third place in Pallani International Tournament in Tamil Nadu in 1992.

AS COACH:
*     Groomed around 30 blind chess players, including internationals Prachurya Pradhan and Soundarya Pradhan.
*     He claims to have groomed well-known players namely WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty, FM Soumya Ranjan Mishra, Ansuman Samal, Roop Kumar Das (all Odisha); Nilesh Saha, Aronyak Ghosh, Aditya Basu, Ritam Nag and Arya Bhakta (all West Bengal).

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: August 1, 2014
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: August 2, 2014