The University of Calcutta emerged champions among 26 other Universities in the AIU East Zone Inter University Chess Championship (MEN) 2024-2025 in Jharkhand, Ranchi from 03/02/2025 to 08/02/2025.
Soham Bhattacharyya of CMSA Department, 2nd year, scored 6.5/7 and was given the trophy for the best player on Board No 3 scoring the highest points in the whole event. With this University of Calcutta gets selected for All India National Inter University Chess Championship tentatively scheduled in the 1st week of April 2025