Our Sports Reporter
GUWAHATI: The 8th editions of Raktabh Dutta Choudhury Memorial North East School Chess Championship will kick off in the city on December 19. The four-day meet, to be organized by the Mind Sports Foundation, will be held at the Assam Jatiya Bidyalay campus at Noonmati. The secretary of the Mind Sports Foundation Nayan Kumar Dutta today informed the media that more than 100 players from the different parts of the Northeast are expected to participate in the tournament. The champion will earn a cash award of Rs 10 thousand while the next two position holders will be richer by Rs 7,500 and Rs 5,000 respectively. The organizer will provide cash awards to the first ten position winners of the meet. Meanwhile Dutta today also announced that like the earlier years this time also Mind Sports Foundation will felicitate a Senior Sports Journalists of the state and this time they have selected President of the Sports Journalists Federation of India Subodh Malla Barua.
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