Caption: Governor H.R. Bhardwaj presenting the award to chess champ B.N. Gangamma in Bangalore recently.

Mysore, Dec. 2:

City’s chess champ B.N. Gangamma, studying in VVS Pandit Nehru High school here, was presented Prathiba Puraskar award by the Government of Karnataka for her contribution towards the game during the Children’s Day function held in Bangalore recently.

Gangamma has played and won many State-level and National-level chess tournaments.

She had secured 5th place in Under-13 National chess championship held at Pondicherry. Recently, she captained the Karnataka Under-15 girls team and won the bronze medal.

Gangamma will be taking part in the Asian school championship to be held in Delhi from December 14 to 24.

She is the daughter of Balladichanda Nachappa and Vidya Nachappa, residents of Sara-swathipuram.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / General News / December 02nd, 2011