Bhubaneswar: He turned eight years old only recently. And Odisha kid Pragyan Mishra is already making his presence felt in the game of 64 squares.
Pragyan won his first international medal by securing bronze in the Under-8 Blitz category at the West Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
It was Pragyan’s maiden international chess competition, according to Odisha Sports.
A student of Mother’s Public School, Bhubaneswar, Pragyan won the state U-9 championship in May this year.