FULL NAME: Yashita Rout
NICK NAME: Rujul
GENDER: Female
BORN: 21st October, 2008 in Florida, USA
PERMANENT ADDRESS: Hatadihi, Keonjhar, Odisha, India
PRESENT ADDRESS: VIM-219, Ground Floor, Sailashree Vihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
FAMILY: Haladhar Rout (Father), Rajashree Singh (Mother).
CURRENT COACH: IM Swayangsu Satyapragyan and Durga Prasad Mohapatra
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Student of Loyola School, Bhubaneswar.
IDOL: Viswanathan Anand
TWITTER HANDLE: @RoutYashita
FIDE-ID: 46604685
AOCA ID: 1183/KHOR/2013
AICF ID: 40917ORI2013
FIDE RATING: 1027 (Standard) as on 1st June, 2016

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Finished runner-up in the girls category of the Odisha State U-17 Chess Championships, held at MCL Kalyan Mandap in Brajarajnagar from 30 August to 2 September 2025.
*     Won won her maiden title in the Odisha State Women Chess Championship, held at Prochessta in Bhubaneswar from 11-13 June 2024.
*     Finished runner-up in the Odisha State Women Chess Championship at RMDD College, Patia, Bhubaneswar on 16 November 2022.
*     Won the title in the Girls category of the Odisha State Sub-Junior (U-16) Chess Championship at Annapurna Theatre, Puri on 30 December 2021.
*     Finished runner-up in the Odisha State Women Online Chess Championship on 18 July, 2021.
*     Emerged Champion in girls category of the Odisha State U-16 Online Chess Championship, held on 7-8 June, 2021.
*     Finished Runner-up in girls category of the Odisha State U-18 Online Chess Championships, held on 4 and 5 June, 2021.
*     Finished 4th in the Odisha State U-11 Girls Chess Championship, held in Jharsuguda, 12-14 October, 2019.
*     Finished Runner-up in the Odisha State U-13 Girls Chess Championship, held in Phulbani, 11-13 April, 2019.
*     Finished Runner-up in the 4th Nalinikanta Mohanty Memorial Odisha State Women Chess Championship, held at Kendrapara on Nov 3 and 4, 2018.
*     Emerged Champion in girls’ category of the Odisha State U-9 Chess Championship, held at Gourav Palace in Cuttack from August 12 to 14, 2017.
*     Finished Runner-up in the girls category of the Odisha State U-9 Chess Championship, held at Gurukul International Public School in Berhampur from June 3 to 5, 2016.
*     Finished Runner-up in the Odisha State U-7 Girls Chess Championship, held in Bhubaneswar, 5-7 May, 2014.

NATIONAL:
*     Won the Gold medal in under-11 girls category of the 8th National School Chess Championship, held at Raipur, Chhattisgarh from 3-7 April, 2019.
*     Finished 4th in National School Chess Championship, held in Nagpur, Maharashtra, 5-7 January, 2017.
*     Secured Silver medal in the girls category of the 29th National Under-7 Chess Championship, held at J N Stadium in Chennai from August 17 to 25, 2015.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won Silver medal in U-12 girls blitz format of the Western Asian Youth & Junior Chess Championships, held in New Delhi from 6-10 Sept, 2019.
*     Won the Bronze medal in U-12 Girls category of the Commonwealth Chess Championship, held in New Delhi from 30 June-7 July, 2019.
*     Finished 4th in U-11 Girls Cetegory of the Asian School Chess Championship, held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 19-29 June, 2019.
*     Finished 5th in U-10 Girls Category of the Commonwealth Chess Championship, held in New Delhi, 26 June-3 July, 2018.
*     Won U-10 Girls Team Bronze medal in Blitz event of the Asian Youth Chess Championship, held in Chiangmai, Thailand, 1-10 April, 2018.
*     Won Gold medal in girls’ under-8 age group of the World Chess Solving Cup Tournament at Batumi in Georgia on October 25, 2016.
*     Finished 5th in U-8 Girls Category of the Asian Youth Rapid Chess Championship in Ulaanbaatar, Mangolia on 10 April, 2016.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Received a cash award of Rs 72,000 from the Government of Odisha in recognition of his outstanding performance on 17 December 2021.
*     When Yashita was about three and a half years, her father gave her the chance to try out several games like basketball, football and chess and she chose chess.
*     Played her first chess  tournament at the age of four.
*     Yashita’s father was her first coach, who taught her the basic skills of chess and groomed her up to a certain level.
*     Yashita’s father has been her menton since she started learning chess and continutes to plan, monitor and finance her training and competitions.
*     In her early years, Yashita took coaching from Gyana Ranjan Sethi, Arati Bijay Mohanty, Rajendra Kumar Sahu, Rajesh Nayak and Swayangsu Satyapragyan.
*     She started walking and speaking when she was only six months old.
*     Yashita is a sincere and studious kid and scores above 95% in school.
*     Yashita is a quick learner and grasps things quite easily.
*     She is very good in art and makes beautiful drawings.
*     She likes to dance and read story books, particularly fairy tales.
*     Once, she was not allowed to play for the National U-7 Championship in 2013 because she had US citizenship.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 26 August 2015
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 4 September 2025