FULL NAME: Arghya Arpan Parida
GENDER: Male
BORN: April 8, 1984
FAMILY: Kalpana Parida (Mother), Akshaya Kumar Parida (Father), Bedaprajnya Das (Wife).
HOME ADDRESS: Choudwar, Cuttack, Odisha, India.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Law graduate
ROLE IN CHESS: Player turned coach-cum-arbiter
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Satya Ranjan Pattnaik.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:
*     Qualified to get his first internation arbiter norm after passing related test, held during Fide Arbiters` Seminar at New Delhi, under the aegis of All India Chess Federation from June 30 to July 2, 2014.
*     As a coach, he groomed chess talents Rudraksh Parida, Adyasha Mahapatra and Aditi Mohanty.
*     Represented Odisha in the National Team Chess Championship at Pondicherry in 2008.
*     He was the Utkal University chess champions for two years (2004 and 2005).

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Imparts coaching at SR Chess Centre, CDA (Cuttack) and Nayapalli (Bhubaneswar).

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: August 6, 2014