FULL NAME: Rudraksh Parida
BORN: June 25, 2002
GENDER: Male
FAMILY: Subrat Kumar Parida (Father), Elora Parida (Mother).
HOME ADDRESS: Plot No A/11, Saheednagar, Bhubaneswar-753007, Odisha, India.
EDUCATION: Standard-III student of DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar.
FIDE RATING: 1614 by February, 2011.
FIDE ID NUMBER: 25007998
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Arghya Arpan Parida and Satya Ranjan Patnaik.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Finished runner-up in the All-Odisha S R School Chess Tournament, held at at Railway Institute in Cuttack from Jan 4 to 6, 2014.
*     Won the State under-9 chess title in Cuttack on June 16, 2011.
*     Finished runner-up in the State Under-7 Chess Championship in 2009.

NATIONAL:
*     Won the title in the open category of the 23rd National Under-7 Chess Championship at Ahmedabad on Dec 24, 2009.
*     Won the title in the National Under-7 Chess Championship in 2009.

INTERNATIONAL:
*    Won the silver medal in the under-8 open category of the  World Youth Chess Championship at Chalkidiki, Greece on October 30, 2010.
*    Won the individual silver medal in u-18 open category of the Asian Youth Chess Championship at Beijing, China on July 14, 2010.
*     Participated in the Parsvnath Commonwealth Chess Championships, held New Delhi, from May 9 to 19, 2010.

OTHER NOTABLE INFORMATION:
*     On June 18, 2014, Odisha Government sanctioned in his favour monetary incentive of Rs 60,000 for his international achievements during the period April 1, 2007 to March 31, 2012.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: June 22, 2011
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: March 7, 2016