FULL NAME: Swayangsu Satyapragyan
NICK NAME: Sanam
DATE OF BIRTH: December 3, 1982.
FAMILY: Father (Sudheendra Panda), mother (Padmini Panda), wife (Sabita), elder brother (Swayangsu Satyakam) and sister in-law (Manasmita).
HOME ADDRESS: Qrs No 3RF-1/3, Cooperative Housing Colony, Unit-III, Bhubaneswar-751001 and 950-P, Kapila Prasad, Bhimtangi, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
PERMANENT ADDRESS: C/o Late B Panda, Mahabirpada, PO: Dhanupalli, Sambalpur-768100. Phone: 916632546720.
TELEPHONE: 0674-2391485 (Res), Mobile: 9337105594.
E-MAIL: satyapragyan@yahoo.co.in and satyapragyan@yahoo.co.in
ACADEMIC EDUCATION: Graduate Sociology (Honours with Distinction) 1st Class.
PROFESSION: Working as the Administrator at State Government chess academy, Prochessta in Bhubaneswar. Earlier served as Traffic Superintendent in Air India, Bhubaneswar.
ELO RATING: 2435 as on August 2012.
TITLES: Fide Master (FM) in 1998 and International Master (IM) in 2002.

CAREER FIRST:
First chess tournament: 1986, Bhubaneswar.
First National tournament: 1989, Otty.
First Asian tournament: 1997, Mumbai.
First World tournament: 1996, Menorca (Spain).

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

NATIONAL:
*    National Under-8 champion at Pollachi, Tamil Nadu, 1990.
* Champion in Round Table National, Delhi, 1993.
*    National under-16 champion, Telecherry, Kerala, 1995.
*    Won the National under-25 title at Bangalore, 2000.
*    Third place in National Team championship at Nagpur, June, 2002.
*    Finished 10th in National `B` championship at Jalandhar, October, 2002.
*    Finished 15th in National `A` championship at Mumbai, January 2003.
*    Fourth place in National Team Championship at Vijayawada, June, 2003.
*    Tenth position in National `B` championship at Nagpur, August, 2003.
*    Champion in the Open rapid tournament at Mumbai, August, 2003.
*    Participated in National `A`` at Calicut, December 2003.
*    Helped Indian Airlines win the National Team Champinship at Pune, June 2004.
*    Participated in National `B` at Vijayawada, June 2004.
*    Runner-up in All-India Open Rapid tournament at Kolkata, June, 2005.
*    Participated in National Team Championship at Pondichery, March 2007.
*    Champion in All India Open Tournament at Sangli (Mahararshtra), May 2007.
*    Finished 9th in National `B` Championship at Dindigul, June 2007.
*    Finished runner-up in the All-India Open tournament at Guwahati, October, 2007.
*    Finished 26th in National `A` Championship at Chennai, February, 2008.
*    Felicitated by Khurda District Chess Association on Sept 23, 2009 for getting 2nd GM norm at Kolkata Open GM Tourney.
*    Became runner-up in the 3rd Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee Memorial Fide Rated Chess Tournament at Nagpur on May 6, 2010.
*    Finished third in the 4th Mangalore Fide Rated All-India Open Chess Tournament, which concluded at Mangalore, Karnataka on July 18, 2010.

INTERNATIONAL:
*    Telegraph International, Calcutta, 1992. Scored 2.5 points against 3 world champions.
*    Participated in World under-16 championship at Menorca, Spain, 1996.
*    Won bronze medal in the Asian under-16 championship at Mumbai, 1997.
*    Participated in World Junior Championship at Calicut, India, 1998.
*    Participated in Asian Junior Championship at Mumbai, 2000.
*    Title winner in the International Open at Gaziabad, UP, October 2001.
*    Tied for the top position but bagged the silver medal and the International Master (IM) title in the Asian Junior Championship at Malriwala, Sri Lanka, July 2002.
*    Finished 12th in World Junior Championship at Panaji, Goa, December 2002.
*    Fourth place in International tournament at Kolhapur, June 2003.
*    Finished third in the international open tournament at Saharanpur, September, 2003.
*    Participated in the Commonwealth Championship at Mumbai, January, 2004.
*    Runner-up in Grandmaster tournament at New Delhi, January 2005.
*    Champion in International Rapid Tournament at Olumuc (Czech Rep), July 2005.
*    Obtained first GM norm by finishing 6th in the Parsvanath International Open tournament at New Delhi, January 2006.
*    Participated in Commonwealth championship at Mumbai, October 2006.
*    Finished third International Open Tournament at Pune, May, 2007.
*    Finished 18th in the International Open Tournament at Hastings, Dec-Jan, 2008.
*     Bagged a special double by winning the title and securing his third and final Grandmaster norm in the top (Magistrale) category of the 32nd Bratto Chess Festival at Bratto in Italy on August 26, 2012.
*     Finish fourth and secured his fourth GM norm in the 3rd Livigno International Open Tournament at Amantea, Italy on Sept 17, 2012.

OTHER IMPORTANT DATA:
*     Appointed as the Head of Indian Delegation for the FIDE World Junior (U-20) Chess Championship, scheduled to be held at in Petrovac, Montenegro from 23 February to 8 March 2025.
*     He was the coach of the Indian team that won 24 medals, including nine gold, at the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2024, in Melaka, Malaysia.
*     Married television journalist Sabita Shukla at Nuapada on December 13, 2009.
*     Played five open international tournaments during a two-month (July-Auguest, 2006) tour to Europe with a goal to improve upon his present Elo rating of 2403 and secure two more norms for the GM title.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 17 July 2008
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 23 February 2025