Prachurapp

Prachura P Padakannaya
Full name	Prachura P Padakannaya
Born	(1992-09-02) 2 September 1992 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Title	Grandmaster (Oct, 2015)
Peak rating	2132 (October 2015)

Prachura (born 2 September 1992), is an Indian chess player and a Grandmaster. In 2015, he became Karnataka youngest International Master at the time after he won the Millionaire Chess Tournament held in Las Vegas, USA. In October 2015. [1]

Early life

Prachura was born on 2 September 1992 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Prachura P Padakannaya is the grandson of the late K V Padakannaya, who was a professor at St Aloysius College, Mangaluru. He is the son of Prateek Padakannaya who owns a business in Bengaluru and Poornima, who works at a government enterprise. Prachura holds a degree in structural engineering from Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru. Currently he is pursuing masters in structural engineering at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Usa. [2]

FIDE Rated Tournament

First place in the fifth international FIDE rated open chess tournament, Palakkad, 2010 Best U-14 in Karnataka state FIDE rated tournament, Bengaluru, 2006 Played in 1st all-India FIDE rated open championship, Bengaluru, 2005 Played in B C Cochin all-India FIDE rated chess tournament, Ernakulam, 2004 Played in all-India FIDE rated chess tournament, Dharmapuri, 2003 Played in Late Babasaheb Ghokale International FIDE rat tournament, Sangli, 2003 Youngest international FIDE rated player of Karnataka, June 2003 Played in XI national youth (u 25) fide rating chess championship, Bengaluru, 2002 Played in all-India FIDE rated open chess tournament, Salem, 2002. [3]

Karnataka State Championships

Second place in the state rapid chess championship, 2014 Second place in the 3rd state level open rapid chess championship, 2010 Third place in the state rapid chess championship, 2009 State champion in the state U-17 chess championship, 2008 State champion in the state U-25 chess championship, 2007 Third place in the state U-19 chess championship, 2006 State champion in the state U-25 chess championship, 2006 First place in the state U-13 chess championship open rapid, 2005 State champion in the state U-12 rapid chess championship, 2004 State champion in the 1st state blitz open chess championships, 2004 Best U-25 in the state rapid chess championship, 2004 First place in the state U-16 chess championship, 2003 Runner up in the state U-13 chess championship, 2003 Third place in the state U-12 rapid chess championship, 2002 State champion in the state U-11 chess championship, 2002 Best U-10 in the 1st state open rapid chess championship, 2002 State champion in the state U-12 chess championship, 2001 State champion in the state U-12 rapid chess championship, 2001 State champion in the state U-9 chess championship, 2001 Best U-14 in the Karavali challenge chess championship, 2001 State champion in the state U-9 chess championship, 2000 Best U-8 in the state open rapid chess championship, 2000. [4]

Career

Originally hailing from the coastal city of Mangaluru, Prachura is an internationally rated chess player who has consistently been the Karnataka state chess champion. He has represented Karnataka state and India in several tournaments and won laurels for his state and country through his chess exploits. He took to playing chess when he was just four-and-a-half years old, and participated in his first district-level chess tournament when he was 4 years 11 months old. In the very first tournament, he bagged the title of the Best Young Player.

Prachura has represented India in two World Championships, in Spain and Greece, and secured silver and bronze medals in Commonwealth Championships. He was ranked 4th in the Asian Championships and has won several FIDE rated tournaments too. He was also the recipient of VTU's 'Best Sportsman' award in 2014, and also the VTU chess team captain between 2011 and 2014.

His chess team was the runner-up in GACC International inter-university chess championship held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January 2014, and bagged the third place in all-India inter-university chess championship held at Rahuri in Maharashtra in January 2014, first place in the inter-university south zone chess tournament held in November 2013 in Chennai, facing over 70 teams from South India. [5]

Refrence

https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=364306 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=915267238521805&id=598294243552441 https://chess.db.com/public/pinfo.jsp?id=5020247