Utkal Ranjan Sahoo, India

Utkal Ranjan Sahoo

"Chess is my source to be happy and to be at peace.
Chess has given me a different perspective of the world. I see, think and observe the world with a different view."

Chess was introduced to him at the age of 6. His father used to play chess with his friends and Utkal being the youngest used to observe them play, In no time he developed interest in the sport and started learning it. Soon after that he started participating in various tournaments and not only he participated but started winning in his category as well.

It was the year 2010 when utkal participated in the Asian youth tournament and he went on to win the tournament inspite of a strong field. He believes that after getting some more positive results he became serious about the sport.

He had scored 3 norms which is one of the requirement to achieve the title, unfortunately his 1 norm was disqualified on the technicality basis. 
He even had a live rating of 2400, which is the other criteria for the title. But he has 2 norms and a Electrical Engineering degree as well under his hat.
Now he is hunting for the only norm that is keeping him away from the International Master title.