The National Chess Academy of Sri Lanka beat Basir Memorial Chess Academy of Bangladesh in the 3rd round to grab solo lead of the Asian Academies Hybrid Chess Championship on Tornelo followed by Elegant International Chess Academy of Bangladesh (photo above).
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The National Chess Academy of Sri Lanka (above left) and Elegant International Chess Academy of Bangladesh (above right), share the early lead after two rounds of the Asian Academies Hybrid Chess Championship on Tornelo.
The event is hosted by the Bangladesh Chess Federation under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE. Eight teams are playing a single round robin over four boards with board 4 reserved for girls. Teams are composed of players under-18 years of age. Games are played 10am daily (Dubai time) with time control of 60 minutes plus increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Fair Play rules are strictly implemented. There is a Local Chief Arbiter and Local Technical Assistant in each event. Players share screen and Task manager and are viewed by videocam and panoramic cameras. Opposing teams are in the same breakout room and can watch each other.
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Pishgam Novin 1 vs. Pishgam Novin 3 of Iran playing over the board as allowed in hybrid chess.
The much awaited event by the Sri Lankan top players, Sri Lanka National B and Women’s National B Chess Championships 2021 will be held 27th & 28th November, 3rd, 4th and 5th of December 2021 at Public Library Colombo with all health guidelines.
The Eligibility
The IMs, FMs / WIMs, WFMs and players having more than 1700 ratings, girls with more than 1400 ratings are directly qualified to the respective event. All players played in SL National B Chess Championships 2020 are also eligible for the event
Wild Card Entries – If any other player feels that he is suitable to play the event, he may apply giving his recent performance. If organizers accept, they may play with a special entry fee.
The events are 9 rounds in Swiss System. The schedule will be announced later. The time control is 90 minutes + 30 Seconds per each move played. The tournament is Internationally Rated.
Cash Awards
Position National B Women’s National B
Champion Rs. 50,000/= Rs. 30,000/=
1st Runner – Up Rs. 30,000/= Rs. 20,000/=
2nd Runner – Up Rs. 20,000/= Rs. 10,000/=
4th Place Rs. 10,000/= Rs. 5,000/=
5th Place Rs. 5,000/= Rs. 3,000/=
(Note- Cash awards will be shared in case of a tie. No certificates or awards will be given to the players who are not present at the Prize Distribution Ceremony.)
The reigning National Chess Champions, Ranindu Dilshaan Liyanage and Top Ranked Harshana Thilakarathne are qualified to play the National Championships 2021 Finals directly. Therefore, 12 players will be qualified and 2 more will be kept on standbye for the finals.
Since Nethmi Fernando, the Women’s National Chess Champion has opted not to play, 14 players will be qualified from Women’s National B.
Registration can be done by sending the name, FIDE ID and the contact details to cfslchessevents@gmail.com before 12.00 am on 26th November 2021. Late entries are not possible.
We expect to witness exciting Chess in this year since after a lack of Physical Chess for more than a year. Hope to see you all in the event.
Luxman Wijesuriya
President – CFSL
by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA—Iloilo City-native John Franz De Asis ruled the just-concluded 2021 Philippine Sports Commission–Pilipinas Para Games (PPG) Online Chess Competition for people with disabilities virtually held at Tornelo Platform on Sunday, November 21, 2021.
De Asis collected 5.5 points on five wins and one draw to win the six-round tournament and brought home the gold medal, toy mascot and the P30,000 top prize in the P1 (Physical Impaired)-Men’s category. De Asis scored victories against Apollo Cabilan in the first round, Sean Mervick Tiu in the second round, Rogelio Clemente in the third round, Sol Tiamzon in the fourth round and Ronnie Villa in the fifth and penultimate round.
He split the point with Eric Abanco in the sixth and final round.
Abanco, the pride of Bacolod City, meantime took the second spot with 5 points for runner-up prize of P20,000, silver medal and toy mascot.
In third place was Jordaine Tupaz of Talisay City with similar 5 points but lower tie break to settle for P10,000, bronze medal and toy mascot,.
Also with 5 points were 4th placer Alexis Elinon and 5th placer Joseph Gregana who pocketed P1,000 each plus medals.
Rounding up the the top ten (10) winners who also got P1,000 each were sixth Ralph Anthony Velasco (4.5 pts), seventh placer Ronnie Villa (4 pts.), eighth placer Sol Tiamzon (4 pts.), ninth placer Ricardo Merano (4 pts.) and tenth placer Max Dave Tellor (4 pts.).
In the distaff side, Aime Dumagpi twice defeated Clarence Oreña to claim the P1-Women’s top prize.
Other notable winners were Geronimo Torres (gold), Kenneth Namisato (silver) and Emmanuel Closas Jr. (bronze) for the B1 totally blind men’s class, Yoland Pespes (gold), Kyla Jane Langue (silver) and Abigail Magsanoc (bronze) for the B1 totally blind women’s side, Mark Christian Evangelista (gold), Ireneo Melchor Pizzaro Jr. (silver) and Abraham Peligro (bronze) for the B2 visually impaired mens portion, Siera Mae Requiron (gold), Regina Abogado (silver) and Marilou Lucero (bronze) for the B2 visually impaired women’s category.
The three-day event was inspired by the success of the country’s Para woodpushers on the international stage, producing a first-ever Filipino world champion in the 2020 International Physically Disabled Chess Association (IPCA) titlist FIDE Master Sander Severino and a fourth-place finish in the team competition of the recent 4th World Chess Championship.
“We are launching this project in a continued effort to address our need for a truly comprehensive grassroots sports development program for our para-athletes, and continuously harness their full potential,” said PSC Oversight Commissioner for para-athletes Arnold Agustin.
The Asian Academies Hybrid Chess Championship has started on Tornelo. The event is hosted by the Bangladesh Chess Federation under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation and FIDE. Eight teams are playing a single round robin over four boards with board 4 reserved for girls. Teams are composed of players under-18 years of age. Games are played 10am daily (Dubai time) with time control of 60 minutes plus increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
In photo above, the Elegant International Chess Academy and Basir Memorial Chess Academy, both from Bangladesh, face each other over-the-board as allowed in hybrid chess.
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Pishgam Novi Academy of Iran
Aden Chess Academy of Yemen
National Chess Academy – Sri Lanka
Nur-Sultan Chess Academy of Kazakhstan
by Marlon Bernardino
MANILA—The Laguna Heroes continued their championship quest after dominating the Davao Chess Wizzards in a sweep, 16-5 and 14.5-6.5 to advance to the northern division semifinals of the third conference of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) on Wednesday, November 17, 2021 virtually held at Chess.com Platform.
The Laguna Heroes totally outclassed their opponent as they just smashed the Chess Wizzards two matches in a row.
It was a fine start for Laguna as Davao fought hard in the Blitz category of the first match but yielded, 6-1. In the Rapid category, the Heroes won five out of the seven playing boards.
Grandmaster Rogelio “Banjo” Barcenilla Jr. toppled National Master Aglipay Oberio after 62 moves of Ruy Lopez Opening, Grandmaster John Paul Gomez subdued Arnel Aton after 46 moves of Benoni defense, Michella Concio defeated Woman National Master Ella Grace Moulic after 43 moves of London System Opening, Kimuel Aaron Lorenzo trounced Anthony Mosqueda after 56 moves of Sicilian defense and Candidate Master Arjie Bayangat beat Lydon Sombilon after 35 moves of Queens Gambit Declined.
Davao tried acting in a new way, especially more quickly than before in the second encounter but the experience and flawless performance of the Heroes allowed them to gain the edge to finish the game, 14.5-6.5.
“We are happy for having a fine start in the knock out stage. Beating Davao is a big motivation to us,” said Arena Grandmaster Dr. Fred Paez, one of the four co-team owner of the Laguna Heroes that include Mr. David Nithyananthan of KALARO, Engr. Benjamin Dy of SDC Global Choice and Engr. Jonathan Mamaril of Oregon, USA.
Backed up by KALARO, Greatech Philippines, Inc., SDC Global Choice, Jolly Smile Dental Clinic, and Rotary Club of Nuvali, the Laguna Heroes will take on the tough San Juan Predators in the semifinals who swept the Isabela’s Knights of Alexander, 15.5-5.5 and 18-3, earlier.
The other semis pairing in the Northern Division pit the Pasig City King Pirates and the Caloocan Loadmanna Knights, who posted contrasting wins.
Pasig dominated the Rizal Batch Towers, 16-5 and 17.5-3.5, while Caloocan survived the Armageddon duel against the Manila Indios Bravos, 0-3, 13-8, 2-1.
Iloilo, meanwhile, arranges a semis date with Lapu-Lapu City Naki Warrios, who bested Toledo City Trojans, 12-9 and 3-0. Lapu-Lapu City, on the other hand nipped Singapore, 9-12, 13.5-7.5 and 2-1.
Camarines Soaring Eagle edged Paralympics, 11-10 and 12-9, to clash with Penang (Malaysia) in the other Final Four pairing. Penang waylaid Negros, 10-11, 12-9 and 3-0
(Results)
1st set
Laguna Heroes vs Davao Chess Wizzards (16-5)
2nd set
Laguna Heroes vs Davao Chess Wizzards (14.5-6.5)
Games on Saturday (November 20, 2021)
(Northern Division)
Pasig vs Caloocan
Laguna vs San Juan
(Southern Division)
Camarines vs Penang (Malaysia)
Lapu-Lapu vs Iloilo
After a short pause, the Major Division event of the National Championship cycle has started with the participation of rated players and the players who performed well in the respective Novices events.
At the end of the day, Gunsekara W A N Senpathi (photo above) of St. Sylweater’s College was able to clinch the peak of the Central Open event while Wiratunga Jenith of Trinity College Kandy and Sithila Mithashana Gangewatte of St. Sylweater’s College followed him by winning 3.5 points out of the four rounds played today.
In the meantime, Gunathilake M D Vinuda Shenal (photo above) of Royal College, Colombo was able to assume the first place of the Western II open, which consists of Gampaha and Kaluthara Districts with a total of 4 points out of 4 games while due to the lack of half a point, Weerasinghe W Yasiru of Mahanama College and Amarathunga Kosala Sandeepa of JMC International School, Kaluthara had to placate with the second and third places respectively.
Concluding the first day of the Western 2 Women’s event, Devindya Oshini Gunawardhana (photo above left) of Pushpadana College, the newly Crowned under 10 Years Girls World Chess Champion and Haritha Shavina Thillainathan (above right) of Bishop’s College were able to step into the second day with the advantage of being having full points of 4 out of possible 4 games at the end of day 1. Also, Pallie Esha Mishela (Visakha Vidyalaya) and Thanujana D M Sinaly (Gothami Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo) placed as the third 3rd position with 3.5 points out of 4 games.
In the Northern Women’s event, P Thishanuga (photo above) of J/ Wembady Girls High School, Jaffna was able to take the lead of the tournament by winning 4points out of 4 games while G H S Sanulya (Royal Primary School, Polonnaruwa), Sutheswaran Abinaya (Scorpian Chess Kindom), Narthavi S(J/ Wembady Girls High School, Jaffna), and Miruthy (Scorpian Chess Kindom) are following her by scoring 3 points out of the 4 games they played against their respective opponents.
The Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is organizing a comprehensive Online Rapid National Chess Championship Cycle for the first time in Sri Lanka started from 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 platform with he fair play regulations approved by FIDE.
The Time Control is 15 minutes + 10-second increment for each move played
.The Remaining Major Division events will be held in Next 2 Weeks ends:
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 Major Division event is scheduled in 6 regions:
4.North Western, Ratnapura
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
f 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/=
Eleven-year-old Sina Movahed of Iran won the Asian Amateur Open Online Chess Championship alone with 8 points out of 9 rounds in the tournament hosted by the Oman Chess Committee under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation 12-18 November 2021 on Tornelo. A total of 175 players from 22 countries competed in the 9-round Swiss. See results of women’s division.
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Thirteen-year-old Sai Surapaneni Chidvilash of India won the silver with 7.5 points, ahead by tie break over Allan Pason, 24, of the Philippines who won bronze.
Here are top placers:
Movahed Sina won last year the Under-10 division of the FIDE World Cadets & Youth Rapid Championships 2020. At the age of 6, he saw a brochure of the Hamidavi Chess Schools and asked his father to enrol him. Hamidavi was his first coach. As he improved he was coached by FM Asgari who saw him become Asian Champion. Today he is coached by GM Darini and GM Idani and studies chess 6-7 hours a day and practices online. Here are some of his previous successes:
1- Best Under 14 player in International Paytakht Cup, Tehran 2018
2- Gold Medal Iran Championship Under 08 – Standard, Rapid & Blitz 2018
3- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship- Standard – Sri Lanka 2019
4- Gold Medal Under 10 Asia Championship – Online 2020
5- Gold Medal Under 10 World Championship – Online 2020
Here is Movahed’s last round game with co-leader Tuguldur Soninbayar of Mongolia where Movahed unleashes 14… Ng4+! to emerge with the Bishop pair and win on move 52.
Join the Thailand Chess Festival, 13-22 December 2021 at Central Plaza Chaengwattana, Nonthaburi, Thailand. Visit official site Thailand Chess Festival for details.
Movahed Sina of Iran and Sai Surapameri Chidvilash of India remain unbeaten after six rounds of the Asian Amateur Chess Championship hosted by the Oman Chess Committee under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation. A total of 175 players from 22 countries are competing in the 9-round Swiss.
Sina defeated erstwhile co-leader CM Bhavesh Mahajan of India while Sai Surapameri Chidvilash won over 10th seed Amjad Fahmi of Yemen for his sixth point and a tie for the lead. The two leaders face each other in the seventh round.
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Eleven (11) players are on their tails with 5 points apiece in a tie for 3rd – 13th place.
Within striking distance at 4½ points each are ten players including top seed Gantumur Orgil of Mongolia. Here are the results of top boards in Wednesday’s 4th, 5th and 6th rounds.
