The the Inaugural Sri Lanka Youth Grand Prix 2020 was started at the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka today. The event which is conducted by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka with a RS. 55,000/= cash fund will be held on 8th, 9th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th at the CFSL HQ, Nugegoda.
The following health guidelines apply. 1. All players should come in masks. 2. Hand cleaning & Temperature checking available here. 3. Three feet tables are used and players may keep one meter distance. 4. No spectators, parents are allowed in the venue. 5. Details and a history of health records are taken from all participants before start. The event is scheduled in a new format with 20 leading under 14 Chess players in Sri Lanka. The 20 players are divided in to two groups with equal strength. So two ten player round robin (9 rounds) events atre played on 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th of August 2020. Then the Champion and the runner up in the groups will play a knocked out as X winner Vs Y Runner Up, Y winner with X runner up as semi finals and then the finals between the winners.
Two games with different colours and tie breaks will be two games with rapid play in two colours followed by two blitz games and still tied, a sudden death game will be played in knock out stage. The Prize Distribution wil be on 18th after final game. The all games are live webcasted in the following links: Group X Link Group Y Link Luxman Wijesuriya |