9th Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2022

The 9th Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2022 has started at the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka with the participation of 18 players. Unfortunately all top players opted out since most of them are tired after a series of Chess events in the last part of 2021.

The Chess Federation is offering Rs. 150,000/- as cash awards for the event slated 14th to 22nd February 2022 at CFSL headquarters, Nugegoda.

The event is played in two groups A & B in 9 round Round robin events as stage I and top two players of the each event will play a knock out event as below in the final stage.

1. Semi Final I – A! Vs B2

2, Semi Final 2 – B1 Vs A2

3. Finals – Winner 1 Vs Winner 2

4. Consolation Finals – Loser 1 Vs Loser 2

In the knock out stage, two games with white and Black per player is played, If the result is 1 – 1, Two Rapid Games with 15m + 10 seconds are played with alternating colours. If still equal, two Blitz Games are played with 3m + 2 seconds and if still tied an Armageddon game giving 5 minutes to white and 4 minutes to Black will be played and Black wins if the game is drawn.

CFSL has offered the following Cash awards with the medals and certificates:

Champion – Rs. 60,000/=

Runner -up – Rs. 40,000/=

3rd – Rs. 25,000/=

4th – Rs. 15,000/=

5th – Rs. 10,000/=

The live Games can be taken from

Public links to tournaments

Grand Prix – A (9th Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2022 – Group A)

Link https://view.livechesscloud.com#343fc48f-7468-4a4e-9c54-6d382e9d5486

Grand Prix – B (9th Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2022 – Group