The Major division events of the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship cycle started in this weekend with the firecrackers of Western 1 Women’s, Western 2 Open, Central Open and Northern Women’s events. It took little longer for finalizing the results till the fair play reports.
Finally, in the Western 1 Women’s event, Oshini Devindya Gunawardena (photo above) of Furguson High School Rathnapura was able to win the throne with the form she continued from round 1. She won all 7 points out of the 7 rounds she played. This was expected since she is the newly crowned World Youth Online Chess Champion in under 10 Years Girls this Year.
Sinlay Thanujana (above left) of Gothami BMV, Colombo 10 placed 2nd scoring 6 ½ points out of 7 to earn the Silver Medal while Nimansa Sandanayake (above center) of Musaeus College placed 3rd with 6 points out of 7 games and won the Silver Medal.
Vinuda Shenal Gunatilleke (photo above) of Royal College Colombo was able to win the gold medal of the Western 2 open event after a master class performance in the second day of the event. He was able to stay unbeaten and only shared the games with Kosala Sandeepa and Jayodya Rasindu in the last two rounds. Also, he was able to win the game Weerasinghe Yasiru in the fifth round who lead the way until the fourth round.
Meanwhile, B Jayodya Rasindu Rashmika Perera (above left) of Sri Sumangala College, Panadura won the silver medal of the respective event by winning 5.5 points out of the 7 rounds with a walkover in the first round. He was also able to remain unbeaten and only shared the games he played in the second, fourth and seventh rounds with Liyanage Savinu, Liyanage Daham Kusalwin and Gunathilake and Vinuda Shenal, respectively. Though he scored 5.5 points same as Rasindu, Senuja Dilmith Udahamullage (above right) of Kaluthara Vidyalaya had to placate himself with the third position due to the disadvantage in tie-break.
Unbeaten Jenith Wiratunge (photo above) of Trinity College achieved the Gold medal in the Central Open event with a score of 6 ½ points out of 7 games. He scored 6 wins giving only one draw to Ranjan Damsara in the 1st round. Yonal Sumanathilake (above center) of Royal International School) won the Silver medal in the better tie breaker after tying with 6 points each with Disal Nimsara Weerasekara (above right) of Sri Chandananda Buddhist College, Kandy. Dishal had to satisfy himself with the Bronze Medal.
After a tough war P Thishanuga (above left) of Vembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to win the championship of the Northern Women’s event with the 6 points she won and the advantage of tie break. The only game she lost was played against Narthavi S. Meanwhile, G H S Sanulya (above center) of Polonnarywa Royal Primary College had to satisfy herself with the silver medal due to lower tie break points and the only game she lost was played with Thishanuga P, the winner of the event. S Narthavi (above right) of Vembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to win the bronze medal with the 5 points out of 7 rounds.
The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid Chess
Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka since the 1st week of June 2021. The 7
Novices Division events and 7 Women’s Novices Division events were finished on the 15th of
August 2021 successfully.
This National Chess Championship Cycle is the selection event for the International Online Rapid Chess Championships in the future. 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 being 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
.
The Remaining Major Division events will be held in 2 Weekends:
9th & 10th October 2021 – Western I (Open), North Western &Uva with Rathnapura (Open),
Western II (Women), and Southern (Women)
16th & 17th October 2021- Northern (Open), Southern Open Central With Kegalle (Women),
and North Western & Uva with Ratnapura (Women)
The event is scheduled in 6 stages:
2. SL National Online Majors Division Chess Championships
1. Western 1
2. Western 2
3. Central, Kegalle
4.North Western, Ratnapura
5. Southern
6. Northern
Eligibility – Rating Greater than 1199 and less than 1899 and selected players from relevant
Novices Chess Championship for the Open Section.
Rating Greater than 1099 and less than 1599 for Women’s events and qualified players from
Women Novices in the respective region.
The Qualification to Online National Premier is that for the first 20 players in the starting rank
list 10 players will qualify and for every subsequent 5 players, an additional 1 player will qualify.
No of Qualifiers = 10 + {(T-20)/5} T-Total Players
If there are 50 players in an event 16 players are qualified.
Online SL National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021
The final Swiss System event of 11 rounds. All qualified from Major Division and players
having more than 1900 (Women over 1600) rating are eligible to participate in the event. The
first 16 players will be qualified for the Online National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals
Online SL National Chess Championship 2021 – Finals
Stage 1
A Round Robin Event of first 16 players of National B Chess Championships 2021
Stage 2
Knocked 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 winner in the age group.
A total of Rs. 180,000/= 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/=
SL Online National (Premier Division) Chess Championship 2021 – Finals
Open Women
Champion – Rs, 15,000/= Rs. 10,000/=
1st Runner Up – Rs. 10,000/= Rs. 5,000/=
2nd Runner Up – Rs. 5,000/= Rs. 3,000/=