The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid Chess Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka which started from 1st week of June 2021. The 7 Novices Division events and 7 Women’s Novices Division event were finished on the 15th of August 2021 successfully. The 6 Major Division and the 6 Major Division Women events were also finished in October 2021. The highest Swiss System event the Inaugural Sri Lanka National Premier Divisions were also over in last week.
Now the time for the Round Robin Events. The Online National Chess Championships 2021 – Open & Girls Finals will be held as 15 round Round-Robin event on 13th, 14th and 18th November 2021 at Tornelo Platform. The top 14 players were taken from the National Premier Open Event to Play with Ranindu Liyanage & Susal De Silva. The first 16 players from the Women is selected from thw Women Premier event.
This event is the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships this year. The Event will help all Chess players to stay at home at this difficult time with supporting to grow their Chess Strength. The event is be held on the Chess.com flat form with all the fair play regulations approved by FIDE. The Time Control will be 15 minutes + 10 second increment for each move played.
Stage 2 – Dates will be informed.
Knock out Event among first 4 players as Semi Finals and Finals/ Consolation Finals with Two games with playing tie breaks.
Awards
Trophies and Medals will be awarded to the winners in all events and the Championship title for the winners.
A total of Rs. 146,000/= will be awarded as the cash awards to National Finals stage II and National Premier Division as given Below:
SL Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals
Open Women
Champion – Rs, 40,000/= Rs. 25,000/=
1st Runner Up – Rs. 25,000/= Rs. 15,000/=
2nd Runner Up – Rs. 12,000/= Rs. 8,000/=
4th Place – Rs. 7,000/= Rs. 4,000/=
The deadline for Entries is on or before 12.00 noon of 12th November 2021. If the entry does not come at the deadline the opportunity will be given to the next player of Premier Division.
Players can use only Laptops or Desktop with a webcam to play the games. In all times of play in progress, players should join in the zoom meeting with the screen and task Manager shared with the tournament arbiters. The Technical Regulations will be sent to the registered players individually. We use same regulations as the Novices, Major and Premier except 2 matters below.
- The Platform is changed to Tornelo
- A side, 2nd Camera is compulsory.
All fair play measures are taken during the event and the games after each round will be sent to the Chess.com and FIDE experts for fair play checking. If any player is found guilty in any form of these checking, he/ she will be banned from all types of Chess for 2 years.
We kindly request all Chess players to compete the event in true sportsmanship and develop you Chess skills even during this Pandemic situation. You may be a part of the Sri Lanka National Online Chess Teams as well.