NAME: Prachurya Kumar Pradhan
GENDER: Male
BORN: July 10, 1997
PERMANENT ADDRESS: Sativata (near Padampur), Bargarh, Odisha, India.
PRESENT ADDRESS: C/o Rabi Ranjan Pradhan, Lecturer in Oriya, Biju Pattnaik College, Boden, Nawapara-766111, Odisha.
FAMILY: Father (Rabi Ranjan Pradhan, mother (Jayanti Pradhan) and younger brother Soundarya Pradhan (also a blind chess player).
E-MAIL: prachu.chess@rediffmail.com
EDUCATION: Currently he is pursuing PHD at Ravenshaw University after completing Masters in Economics. Earlier, studied at Dwarseni High School, Kerapadar, Nuapada.
RECEIVED COACHING FROM: Durga Prasad Mahapatra, Sekhar Chandra Sahu, Kesha Ranjan Pradhan.
FIDE ID: 25051580
AICF ID: 19980
IDOL: Magnus Carlson

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

STATE:
*     Won the title in the State Chess Championship for the Blind held at Bhubaneswar on May 12, 2011.
*     Won the title in the Junior State Chess Championship for the Blind at Bhubaneswar in 2008.

ZONAL:
*     Finished runner-up in the 9th East Zone Chess Championship for the Blind, held at Bhubaneswar from April 27 to 29, 2012.

NATIONAL:
*     Finished 6th in the 13th National `A’ Chess Championship for Visually Impaired, held at Andheri Sports Complex, Mumbai from Feb 3-11, 2018.
*     Finished eighth in the National `B’ Chess Championship for the Blind, which concluded at Manipal University in Karnataka on Dec 30, 2015.
*     Emerged champion in the National Open Fide Rated Chess Tournament for the Blind, held at Nabadwip in West Bengal from Dec 27 to 30, 2013.
*     Finished runner-up for the second successive year in the All-India Fide Rated Chess Tournament for the Blind at Hyderabad on May 18, 2013.
*     Finished 10th in the KIIT Cup AICFB National `A` Chess Championship for the Blind at KIIT Campus in Bhubaneswar on Feb 1, 2013.
*     Finished 10th in the KIIT Cup National B Chess Championship for the Blind at Bhubaneswar on Dec 30, 2012.
*     Won the title in the U-19 National Chess Championship for the Blind at Latur, Maharastra on January 26, 2011.
*     Defended title in the National U-19 Chess Championship for the Blind held at Mumbai from January 27 to 29, 2012.
*     Finished runner-up in the All-India Fide Rating Chess Tournament for the Blind at Hyderabad on June 3, 2012.

INTERNATIONAL:
*     Won the silver medal in men’s team rapid VI-B1 category of the 3rd Asian Para Games, held at Cempaka Putih Sports Hall in Jakarta, Indonesia from Oct 6-13, 2018.
*     Finished 14th in the IBCA Asian Chess Championship for Visually Challenged, held at Manipal University, Udupi, Karnataka from March 23 to 31, 2017.

OTHER IMPORTHAT DATA:
*     Cracked the Odisha Civil Services Examination 2020, securing 292 rank as per notification issued by OPSC on 7 October 2022.
*     Cleared his IPCC examination in July 2018, and is now a CA Final student.
*     Cleared IPCC Group 1, the second level Chartered Accountancy course in first attempt in July 2017.
*     Cleared Common Proficiency Test (CPT) with distinction in 2016.
*     Secured 90.5 per cent marks in his HSC examinations from Dwarseni High School in Boden in 2013.
*     His uncle Kesha Ranjan Pradhan, who has represented Orissa in the National B chess championship, initiated him into chess early in life.
*     He has Lebers Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a disease genetically passed through families and people with this disease are born blind.
*     AICFB & Milky Way Trust (UK) gifted him a netbook under Saksham Project and the electronic support brought about a steady rise in his chess career.
*     Became the first blind chess player of Odisha to secure a FIDE rating in 2011.
*     Demonstrated God Particles phenomenon, which he prefers to call Hicks-Bosen Theory at his school exhibition in 2011.
*     Wants to become a software engineer and chess GM.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 12 July 2011
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 7 October 2022