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The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is starting activities with the 7th Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2020 to be held from 11th to 19th of July 2020. The event is the strongest event with participation of 12 players out of top fifteen ranks in the country. They will compete for the supremacy in 11 round Round Robin tournament for the crown. The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is offering a total cash award of Rs. 115,000/- , Giving Rs. 50,000/= as the first price. The CFSL has arranged to broadcast all games  live!

Participants

1. Reigning Champion – Chandana Wijekoon

2. Former National Chess Champion – GC Anuruddha
3. Former National Chess Champion – Minul Sanjula Doluweera
4. International Master – Romesh Weerawardena
5. The 2019 National Team player, Young LMST De Silva
6. Under 16 National Champion – Kevin Ranindu Silva
7. National Amateur Champion – EDS Chandula
8. Buddhika Amarasinghe
9. Seniors – Dimuthu Priyadarhana &
10. Elath Mathanga
11. Young stars – Jenith Weeratunge &
12 Thisal Manjith Piyumantha

Join the Asian Seniors Online Chess Championship organized by the Asian Chess Federation 13-21 July 2020 at Chess.com. At stake are Certificates for Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists in Zonals and Finals and a  total of $3,000 in cash prizes.

Seven one day Zonal championships shall select the top 3 men and best women to qualify to the Finals. Rapid chess time control shall apply 10 minutes plus 2 second increments from move 1. Strict monitoring in Zoom rooms. Swiss Manager pairings shall be used. Players should remain in their seats during the game but have breaks between rounds.

Regulations Asian Seniors Online Championships 2020

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FIDE in the Corona pandemic took a historic step for the promotion of Chess worldwide with  the concept of Stay Home, Stay Safe, Play Chess. Pakistan Chess Federation fully supported and wholeheartedly participated in FIDE-Checkmate Coronavirus Initiative. The CFP took part in this global campaign to the best of its abilities and organized almost 47 tournaments on a daily basis. Tournaments were supervised by Mr. Amin Malik- (Vice President Chess Federation of Pakistan and Delegate) himself and daily reported FIDE about its activities under Checkmate coronavirus initiative.

As a goodwill gesture we allowed many Chess players from all over Asia, Africa and other parts of the world who vigorously participated in FIDE checkmate coronavirus tournaments organized by the CFP. These matches were strictly monitored, and CFP ensured that no unfair means were used during the event.

Although the campaign was intended to increase the participation and engagement of Chess players, the CFP also maintained record of the top position holders in these tournaments, to increase competitive sportsman spirit and motivate Chess players to compete with new vigor and zeal.  During the process of final lucky draw by FIDE, the CFP members won six prizes which included two guest invitations to the Chess Olympiad 2021 in Moscow. The mega prize winners were Dr. Masood Khattak and Salman Nizamani. Two other members Waqas Dogar and Imran Mughal who won two 2 hours online training by a GM and two members Musavir Khan and Kashif Javaid won two souvenirs.

The CFP organized almost 47 tournaments and points were awarded to top ten players of each tournament. Top players from all over Pakistan, including all National masters, participated in these tournaments under the CFP platform. Out of hundreds of players, 81 players scored at least one top ten performance in a tournament, showing the growing strength of players across the country, while the over-all performance of our top five players were amazingly consistent. Sibt Ali scored marathon 221 points with 10 tournament wins, Daniyal Ahsan scored 155, Dr Muhammad Ayoub got third spot with 143 points over-all.

The Chess Federation of Pakistan fully supports FIDE and Asian Chess Federation for the promotion of Chess worldwide. The CFP would continue to organise online Chess events in the wake of Covid-19 issue and engage our players in healthy mental activity through regularly organizing online tournaments.

Asian Chess Federation in cooperation with National Chess Federation of the Philippines shall organize an online FIDE Arbiters Seminar 10-12 July 2020 by Zoom.

The Lecturer will be IA/IO Abundo, Casto (PHI), FIDE Lecturer and assistant lecturer will be IA Lee, Patrick (PHI). The language of the Seminar will be English with translation to Tagalog.

The Seminar will give norms and titles of FIDE Arbiter, according to the Regulations for the titles of Arbiters.

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The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka donated RS. 1 Million to COVID 19 – Healthcare and Social security Fund of Sri Lanka with the support of the Sri Lankan Chess Community. Mr. Luxman Wijesuriya of Chess Federation of Sri Lanka, who is also the General Secretary of Commonwealth Chess Association and a Vice President of Asian Chess Federation, is handing over the documents to His Excellency Gotabaya Rajapaksha, the president of Sri Lanka. Mrs. Sandamali Aviruppola, Vice President of CFSL and Mr Erosh Jayasinghe of CFSL are also in the picture.

Chinese Taipei Chess Association (CTCA) has the honor to invite all chess players to participate in the 2020 CTCA International Chess Open to be organized in Taichung, Taiwan from 17 thAugust to 22 ndAugust 2020.

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FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich congratulated the winners of the Asian Juniors and Girls Online Chess Championships organized by the Asian Chess Federation and Chess.com. The top three girls from the previous day joined the closing ceremony held immediately after the junior championship.

The FIDE President joined the awards ceremonies in the Zoom room together with Asian Chess Federation Secretary General Hisham Al Taher, as Chief Arbiter Abulrahim Mahdi announced the top three winners in the boys and girls divisions. Honored guest was FIDE Arbiters Commission Chairman Laurent Freyd. Over 200 players from 43 countries joined the tournament. Here are the winners and links to chess-results.com.

Juniors Finals

1st: Abdusattoro Nodirbek      GM  UZB

2nd Tahbaz Arash                   IM    IRI

3rd  Vokhidov Sahmsidin        GM  UZB

Girls Finals

1st   Ning Kaiyu                      WIM  CHN

2nd  Munkhul Turmunkh         WIM  MGL

3rd  Arpita Mukherjee             WIM  IND

The winners took turns to express their thanks to the organizers for a successful tournament. Tournament Director Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh made pairings by Swiss Manager program and uploaded to Chess.com. Assisting the tournament were Deputy Chief Arbiters Haroon or Rashid of Bangladesh and K.K.Chan of Hong Kong together with Pairings Assistants IA Patrick Lee and FA Felix Poloyapoy of the Philippines. GM Dimitri Komarov of Ukraine and Jaime Kenmure of Australia gave running commentary on Twitch.

Asian Chess Federation thanks Nick Barton and Simon McNamara of Chess.com for their support.

Chess Federation of Pakistan is going to organize multiple tournaments in line with “FIDE Checkmate Coronavirus” initiative. Below is the schedule of six tournaments on June 9,10 & 11, 2020 and The links to the tournaments are given below:

1- Name of the Federation: Chess Federation of Pakistan

2- Contact person: Mr. Amin Malik, Vice President, Chess Federation of Pakistan & Delegate

3- Tournament Administrator: Mr. Waqar Madni

4- Platform where the tournament will be held: lichess, https://lichess.org/team/chess-federation-of-pakistan

5- Complete schedule of the tournament– (Date, starting time, and ending time)