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Sponsored By: SAIF POWERTEC Limited
Organised By: Bangladesh Chess Federation
19th to 27th October, 2021, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Total Prize Money: 55,000.00 (Fifty Five Thousand) US Dollars

Download Sheikh Russel International Grandmasters Chess Tournament

RULES & REGULATIONS
The Tournament will be held from 19th to 27th October, 2021 on the occasion of birthday celebration of Shahid Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Father of Nation Banghabandu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The event will be played in accordance with the following rules and regulations:

ELIGIBILITY & PARTICIPATION
Invited each Federation from FIDE send their GM and IM only. It’s invitational International GM Chess event

PLAYING CONDITIONS
The tournament shall be conducted as a Swiss System competition of 9 rounds and will be played according to FIDE regulations.
The time control is 90 minutes for the whole game an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

TRAVELLING EXPENSES
Bangladesh Chess Federation will provide Air Fare to all foreign Grndmasters (GM). Air travel expenses for the International Masters (IM) shall be borne by themselves.
We will arrange transfer between Hazrat Shahjalal international airport and hotel.

ACCOMMODATION
Bangladesh Chess Federation will provide free accommodation, food and local transportation to foreign GM’s and IM’s.

PRIZES
Total prize fund is 55,000 US $ as follows. Prize money will be not shared
1st- US $ 10,000, 2nd- US $ 7,000, 3rd – US $ 5,000, 4th- US $ 3,000, 5th- US $ 2,000,
6th- US $ 2,000, 7th – US $ 2,000,8th- US $ 2,000,9th- US $ 1,000, 10th-US $ 1,000,
11th-US $ 1,000, 12th-US $ 1,000,13th-US $ 1,000, 14th-US $ 1,000, 15th-US $ 1,000, 16th-US $ 1,000,17th-US $ 1,000, 18th-US $ 1,000, 19th-US $ 1,000 and 20th-US $ 1,000
Special prizes for Bangladeshi players: 1st-US $ 3,000, 2nd-US $ 2,000, 3rd-US $ 1,000, 4th- US$ 500, 5th-US$ 500, 6th-US$ 500, 7th-US$ 5,00, 8th-US$ 500, 9th-US$ 500, Best Woman-US$ 500, Best Under-20 US$-500

REGISTRATION
Requested to all foreign countries to send their GM and IM names on or before 5th October, 2021 with passport copies and photo ID at Bangladesh Chess Federation,
E-mail: banchessfed@gmail.com

VISAS
Bangladesh Chess Federation will arrange visa on arrival at Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport, Dhaka, Bangladesh. All players must send a copy of passport (page with photo and key information), to Bangladesh Chess Federation before the 5th October, 2021

CONTACTS
Syed Shahab Uddin Shamim General Secretary Bangladesh Chess Federation
E-mail: banchessfed@gmail.com Mobile: +88 01711750079

Vietnam dominated the Eastern Asia Youth Chess Championship Girls division winning 10 gold medals followed by China and Mongolia winning one gold medal apiece. Over 300 girls from 14 countries competed in the Asian Youth Chess Championship Girls division held over the weekend of 24-26 September on Tornelo. The Open (boys) division will be held over the coming weekend of 1st to 3rd October.

Participating in the tournament are players from Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei and Vietnam. Visit chess-results.com for round by round results and to download games.

The tournament is organized by the Thailand Chess Association under the auspices of the Asian Chess Federation. The champions qualify to the FIDE Online Cadets and Youth Rapid Grand Prix next month to compete against the best from other continents.

The Organizing Committee implemented FIDE Fair Play Rules strictly and a number of players found violating Fair Play regulations were forfeited for some or all of their games. Arbiters from Thailand, Vietnam, Mongolia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Philippines monitored players.

Congratulations to the gold, silver and bronze medalists and to the winning teams.

      Vo Mai Phoung                                              Duong Ngoc Uyen                                     Pham Thien Thanh

        Myagmar Tselmeg of Mongolia                     Gegeenee Enkhmunkh                          Nguyen Minh Chi

        Nguyen Huynh Mai Hoa                             Bui Thi Ngoc Chi                                      Bonjoure Fille Suyamin

The 11 year old Bonjoure Fille Suyamin, is a Grade 6 student of Del Rosario Christian Institute in General Trias City, Cavite and one of the top players of Estavillo Chess Academy. Her stint is supported by Congressman Jon-Jon Ferrer and Mayor Ony Ferrer.

    Thai Ngoc Tuong Minh                              Nguyen Binh Vy                      Nguyen Le Cam Hien

 

      Nguyen My Hanh An                                      Nguyen Hong Nhung                        Urangoo Kherlenzorig

      Cai Youyang                                                        Jerlyn Mae San Diego                                              Pham Tran Gia thu

The Sri Lanka Online National (Major Division) Starts on 2^nd October 2021 with

Western II – Open

Central With Kegalle  – Open

Western I – Women

Northern – Women

Inaugural Online Rapid National Chess Championship Cycle 2021 (Open/Women’s)

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 1^st week of June 2021. The 7 Novices Division events and 7 Women’s Novices Division event were finished on the 15^th of August 2021 successfully.

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 support to grow their Chess Strength. The event is be held on the Chess.com platform with all the fair play regulations approved by FIDE. The Time Control will be 15 minutes + 10 second increment for each move played.

The Major Division events will be held in 3 Week ends:

2^nd & 3rd October 2021 – Western II (Open), Central With Kegalle (Open), Western I (Women) and Northern (Women)

9^th & 10^th October 2021 – Western I (Open),  North Western & Uva with Kegalle (Open), Western II (Women) and Southern (Women)

16^th & 17^th October 2021- Northern (Open), Southern Open Central With Kegalle (Women), and North Western & Uva with Ratnapura (Women)

The event is scheduled in 5 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 event 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 to 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 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/=

1^st Runner Up –          Rs. 25,000/=                Rs. 15,000/=

2^nd Runner Up –          Rs. 12,000/=                Rs. 8,000/=

4^th 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/=

1^st Runner Up –           Rs. 10,000/=               Rs. 5,000/=

2^nd Runner Up –           Rs. 5,000/=                 Rs. 3,000/=

 

The closing date for entries is 1^st of October 2021 at cfslchessevents@gmail.com.

 

Entry Fee – Rs 1,200/=

 

The Payment should be made to the following account and send the application/ Details as application with a scanned copy of the Bank slip to cfslchessevents@gmail.com. (on or before 1^st October for 1^st event. event). Application without payment proof will not be accepted.

A/C name – Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

Bank – Bank of Ceylon, Bambalapitiya

A/C Number – 718386

 

Fair Play

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.

 

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 in true sportsmanship and develop your Chess skills even during this Pandemic situation. You may be a part of the Sri Lanka National Online Chess Teams as well.

 

Registration Form

CFSL Online Novices Division Chess Championship 2021

Player Name

Date of Birth

School/ Club

District

Mobile and What’s app No.

Email :

Fide ID No. and Ratings

Chess.com user name*

Another contact Mob No:

(Father/Mother)

 

Be a participant of the strongest online Chess event of the Country!

 

Stay Safe! Play Chess!

 

Luxman Wijesuriya

President – Chess Federation of Sri Lanka

General Secretary – South Asian chess Council

General Secretary – Commonwealth Chess Association

Vice President – Asian Chess Federation

 

 

    

The Indian delegation won an astounding 8 golds, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals to dominate the Western Asia Youth Chess Championships held 18-20 September online on Tornelo.

Iran and Sri Lanka finished with 2 gold medals each but Iran grabbed overall runner-up with 3 silvers against Sri Lanka’s one silver medal. IM Harshana Thilakarathne (above left) won the gold medal in the highest group, Under-18 while countrymate Oshini Devindya Gunawardena (above right) lived up to her billing by winning the gold in the Girls Udner-10. Visit chess-results.com for round by round results and to download games.

The Asian Chess Federation shall nominate the winners of each age group to the FIDE World Youth and Cadets Chess Grand Prix 2021 to be conducted by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) in October.

Under 18 Open

Medal	Winner	Country	Rating	Points
Gold	Thilakarathne G M H (IM) photo above	SRI	2010	7
Silver	De Silva L M S T (FM)	SRI	1744	6.5
Bronz	Bosagh Zadeh Alireza	IRI	1902	6.5

Under 18 Girls

Gold	Prachiti Chandratreya (WFM) photo above	IND	1648	7.5
Silver	Saina Salonika (WFM)	IND	1599	7
Bronze	Bowmick Susmita	IND	1588	6

Under 16 Open

Gold	Krishna S Rohith (FM)	IND	2259	7.5
Silver	Varshny Aryan (FM)	IND	1419	7.5
Bronze	Atakhan Abtin (FM)	IRI	1409	7.5

Under 16 Girls

Gold	Deshmukh Divya (WIM)	IND	1825	9
Silver	Ghomi Parnian (WCM)	IRI	1775	6.5
Bronze	Harati Hasti	IRI	1763	6.5

Under 14 Open

Gold	Singh Sahib (photo above)	IND	1717	7.5
Silver	Suleimen Ergali	KAZ	1609	7.5
Bronze	Kaivalya Sandip Nagare	IND	1535	7.5

Under 14 Girls

Gold	M Sreekumar Anupam	IND	1330	8.5
Silver	Hajatniya Reyhaneh	IRI	1348	7.5
Bronze	H G Pragnya	IND	1244	7.5

Under 12 Open

Gold	Rajkhowa Mrinmoy (photo above)	IND	1344	9
Silver	Nitin V Khsatria	IND	1235	7
Bronze	Wadhawan Daaevk	IND	1358	7

Under 12 Girls

Gold	Davari Sara (photo above)	IRI	1455	9
Silver	Gupta Shubhi	IND	1095	7.5
Bronze	Newansa M Esandi	SRI	1126	6.5

Under 10 Open

Gold	Vaz Ethan (photo above)	IND	1284	8
Silver	Adiga Sathvik	IND	1206	8
Bronze	Dauren Darmen	KAZ	1260	7

Under 10 Girls

Gold	Gunawardhana Devindya Oshini (photo above)	SRI	1373	8
Silver	Akbari Rosha	IRI	1412	8
Bronze	V C Nivedita	IND	1167	7

Under 8 Open

Gold	B Vishruth (photo above)	IND	0	8
Silver	Pratap Sharma Madhvendra	IND	1043	7.5
Bronze	Pranav Mithun	IND	1040	7.5

 

8 Girls

Gold	Bhar Mirzakhani	IRI	0	7,5
Silver	A Charvi	IND	1043	7.5
Bronze	Bohara Ira	IND	1040	7.5

Host Sri Lanka wins Two Golds, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze!

Sri Lanka number 1 ranked, International Master, Harshana Thilakarathne won the Gold medal in the most important under 18 years (Open) category of the Western Asian Online Youth Chess Championships concluded on 20^th September 2021. Harshana who is from Maliyadeva College played excellent Chess being the leader from the 1^st round and won the Gold medal convincingly. He beat Aljabari Mohammad.A (Palastine), Radwan Mahmoud J (Palastine), FIDE Master Anees M Mohamed(India), Mazhkenov Alisher (Kazakhstan), Dhingra Aaditya(India) and Khazaei Parviz(Iran) and drew with Bosagh Zadeh Alireza and (Iran) and Ranjan Aryan(India) and lost one game to our own National player LMST De Silva to score 7 points out of possible 9 games.

The young Oshini Devindya Gunawardena who is the current under 10 Years Girls World Chess Champion showed her supremacy by winning the under 10 Category Gold medal of this Championships. Though unfortunately she lost her 2^nd game to Indian player, R Charudharshini(India) she recovered well scoring wins with all other players Bhuchar Ridhima(India), A Anjana (India), Reya Banker(India), Gunesh Dessai Saeeja (India), GHS Sanulya (Sri Lanka), Akbari Rosha (Iran), S Ukkali Krupa(India) and Dongre Anshika(India) to score 8 points out of 9 games and win the event. Oshini is from Furguson High School, Ratnapura and is coached by Mr. Akhila Kavinda, a prominent Chess trainer in the country.

The Sri Lankan prominent youth player in the National Chess Team, Susal De Silva of Nalanda College made the Silver in under 18 category by winning with the champion in the crucial penultimate round. He also suffered two early loses in 2^nd and 3^rd rounds to Ranjan Arayan(India) and Kusalwin Liyanage  and  he made a miracle by scoring 6 ½ points out of rest of 7 games to win the Silver Medal. He beat Al Busaidi Hamood(Oman), Radwan Mahmoud J(Palastine), Khalifa Essa Albalooshi(UAE), Dhingra Aaditya (India), Harshana and Mazhkenov Alisher(Kazakhatan) and drew with Khazaei Parviz(Iran) to score 6 ½ points out of 9 games.

M Esandi Newansa of Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda made the Bronze Medal in the Under 12 years Girls category scoring 6 ½ points out of 9 games. She beat Anujana Hasandi (Sri lanka), Sachi Jain(India), Rouda Essa Alserkal(UAE), Sirin Kalyani(India), Ebrahimi Rashti Asal (Iran) and Abaeva Aiana and drew with Alavi Mahsa(Iran) and lost 2 games to Imani Adrina and Davari Sara both from Iran for her total of 6 ½ out of 9 games..

India dominated the event by winning 8 Gold Medals in Under 18 Girls by Prachiti Chandratreya with 7 ½ points out of 9 games, under 16 Open and Girls by  FM Krishna S Rohit with a score of 7 ½ out of 9 games and WIM Divya Deshmuk with 9 points out of 9 games, Under 14 Open & Girls by Singh Sahib with a score of 7 ½ out of 9 games and  M Sreekumar Anupam with a score of 8 ½ points out of 9, Under 12 Open by Mrinmoy Rajkowa, Under 10 years Open by Ethan Zaz with 8 points out of 9 and Under 8 Open by  B Vishruth with a score of 8 points out of 9 games.  Iran won Gold medal in Under 12 Girls by Davari Sara with a perfect score of 9 out of 9 games and under 8 Girls by Mirzakhani Bahar with 7 ½ point out of 9 games.

The western Asian Online Youth Chess Championships conducted by the Asian Chess Federation and organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka was held from 18^th – 20^th September 2021. Close to 900 players participated in this biggest online Chess Event of Asia on Tornelo platform. The time control was 15 minutes + 10 seconds for each move played.

The Countries of Bangladesh, India, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Syria, UAE, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka participated in the event.

 

 

The Asian Chess Federation will conduct a FIDE Arbiters Workshop in English and Arabic for Asian Chess Federation Online Arbiter Certification 18-21 October 2021 visa Zoom. Download Registration Arbiters Workshop Oct 2021

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Registration fee is $60 for course and exam. Successful participants will receive Asian Chess Federation Certificate necessary to be arbiter in Asian online championships.

IM Sankalp and IM Mitrabha Guha of India share the lead with 5½ points each after 6^th rounds of the Joytu Sheikh Hasina International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2021, organised by Canadian University of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Chess Federation. The event is now being held at Aarokanon Ballroom in Hotel 71 on the occasion of 75^th Birthday celebration of Hon’ble Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, MP. Visit chess-results.com for round by round results and standings and to download games.

IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh, IM Sayantan Das and IM Aronyak Ghosh of India are jointly in 2^nd position with 4½ points each.

Twelve players are sharing 3^rd position with 4 points each. They are: GM Ziaur Rahman, and FM Sk. Nasir Ahmed of Bangladesh, GM Ghaem Ehsan Maghami of Iran, GM Andrey Sumets and GM Alexsander Zubarev of Ukraine, GM Vadim Malakhatko of Belgium, GM Deep Sengupta, IM Srijit Paul, IM Neelash Saha, IM Kaustav Chaterjee, IM Sammed Joykumar Shete and Subhayan Kundu of India.

6^th round games were held on today (Friday). In 6^th round: IM Sankalp beat IM Mitrabha, IM Sayantan drew with GM Deep, IM Joykumar drew with GM Sumets, GM Zia drew with GM Malakhatko, IM Aronyk beat FM Md. Taibur Rahman, IM Nubairshah beat GM Alexey Kislinisky of Chez Republic, IM Kaustav drew with IM Srijit, FM Nasir drew with GM Enamul Hossain Razib, GM Ghaem beat IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin, FM Debaraj Chetterjee drew with GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran, IM Neelash Saha of India beat Shafiq Ahmed, GM Zubarev beat Showkat Hossain Pollab, Subhayan beat Sourath Biswas, CM Liyange Ranindu Dilshan of Sri Lanka drew with IM Asyl Abdyjapar of Kyrgyzstan, IM Mohammad Fahad Rahman beat CM Sadnan Hasan Dihan, WIM Arpita Mukharjee of India beat IM Mahmood Lodhi of Pakistan, Sanket Chakravarty of India beat FM Mehdi Hasan Parag, IM Abu Sufian Shakil beat CM Md Sharif Hossain, FM Piyumanth Sasith Nipun of Sri Lanka beat Sakline Mostafa Sajid, FM Subrota Biswas beat FM Mohammad Javed, CM Tahsin Tajwar Zia beat CM Manon Reja Neer, CM Sohel Chowdhury drew with FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman, CM Chanchal Kumar Ghosh beat Anata Choudhury, CM Nayem Haque drew with WFM Noshin Anjum, Swarnavo Choudhury drew with WCM Ahmed Walijah, Kazi Zarin Tasnim drew with CM Md Jamal Uddin, Jabed Al Azad drew with Mohammed Shamim, Delwar Hossain beat WCM Jannatul Ferdous, Md Sariatullah beat FM Md Saif Uddin Lavlu, Motuza Mahathir Islam beat Md Sajidul Haque and Marzouq Chowdhury beat Wadifa Ahmed.

7^th round games will start on tomorrow (Saturday) from 3:00 PM at same venue.

After the 2^nd day Harshana Thilakarathne is in clear lead at the under 18 boys with 5 ½ out of 6 and Dahamdi Sanudula and Oshini Devinya Gunawardena are having 5 points out of 6 games and following the leaders closely.

The Western Asian Online Youth Chess Championships conducted by the Asian Chess Federation and organized by the Chess Federation of Sri Lanka is in progress from 18^th – 20^th September 2021. A total of 850 players are participating in this biggest online Chess Event of Asia happening these days on Tornelo platform. The time control is 15 minutes + 10 seconds for each move played.

The Winners of each age group will be selected to play the FIDE World Youth and Cadet Chess Grand Prix 2021 to be conducted by the International Chess Federation.

After the 6^th rounds the top standings of the age categories are as below.

Under 8    – B Vishruth (India)     6/6

Under 10  –  TalebianZadeh (Iran) 6/6

Under 12  –  Mrinmoy Rajkova (India)           6/6

Under 14  – Ergali Suleiman (Kazakhstan)  5 ½ /6

Under 16 – Rohith Krishna (India)   5.6

Under 18  – Harshana Thilakarathne (Sri Lanka)   5 ½ /6

Under 8 (Girls)  – Ava Moktari (Iran) 6/6

Under 10  (Girls) – Rosa Akbari – (Iran 6/6)

Under 12 (Girls) – Sara Davari (Iran 6/6)

Under 14  (Girls) – Anupam M Sreekumar (India)  6/6

Under 16 (Girls) – Divya Deshmuk (India) 6/6

Under 18 (Girls) –  Susmitha Bowmik  (India)  5/6

 

 

Games of the Joytu Sheikh Hasina International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2021, sponsored by the Canadian University, Bangladesh and organised by Bangladesh Chess Federation began (Sunday) at 3:00 PM at Amrokanon, Level-9, Hotel 71, Shahid Nazrul Islam Sarani, Bijoy Nagar, Dhaka.

In the first round match, Bangladesh’s FIDE Master Sheikh Nasir Ahmed created a stir by defeating India’s Grand Master Deep Sengupta. Today. FIDE Master Nasir started the game in the English opening with white pieces, the game continued to Anti Catalan Defense and he won against India’s Grandmaster Deep Sengupta at 90th moves.

Sri Lankan Candidate Master Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan drew with Iran’s Grand Master Ghaem Ehsan Maghami. Candidate Master Dilshan drew 23 moves with Grand Master Gayem with a black pieces.

In the 1st round: GM Sumets Andrey of Ukraine beat fM Md Taibur Rahman, GM Mosadeghpour Masoud of Iran beat FM Mehdi Hasan Parag, IM Mitrabha Guha FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman, GM Malakhatko Vadim of Belgium beat Anata Choudhury, IM Arnoyk Ghosh beat CM Manon Reja Neer, IM Sankalp Gupta beat Shafiq Ahmed, IM Mohammad Nubairshah Shaik beat CM Md. Sharif Hossain, IM Sayantan Das beat CM Sadnan Hasan Dihan, IM Koustav Chatterjee beat CM Nayem Haque, GM Ziaur Rahman beat Swarnavo Choudhury, IM Neelash Saha beat CM Sohel Chowdhury, IM Sammed Jaykumar Shete beat FM Mohammad Javed, GM Alexander Zubarev beat CM Md Jamal Uddin, IM Auyl Adbyjapar of Kyrgyzstan beat Jabed Al Azad, GM Enamul Hossain beat Delwar Hossain, IM Mohammad Fahad rahman beat WFM Noshin Anjum, GM Alexey Kislinsky of Chez Republic beat CM Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, IM Srijit Paul of India beat Showkat Hossain Pollab, Subhayan Kundu of India beat Md. Sariatullah, FM Subrota Biswas beat Murtoza Mahathir Islam, IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin beat WCM Ahmed wAlijah, Sanket Chakravarty beat FM Md Saif Uddin Lavlu, IM Abu Sufian Shakil beat Kazi Zarin Tasnim, FM Piyumantha Sasith Nipun beat Marzouq Chowdhury, CM Tahsin Tajwar Zia beat Sakline Mostafa Sajid, Sourath Biswas beat WCM Jannatul Ferdous, FM Debaraj Chatterjee beat Md Sajedul Haque and WIM Arpita Mukahrjee of India beat Wadifa Ahmed.

The official inauguration ceremony of the event will be held on tomorrow 20th September, 2021 Monday from 7:30 PM at Sky Ballroom, Level-16 in Le Meridian Hotel. Dr. Benazir Ahmed, BPM (Bar), Honorable Inspector General of Bangladesh Police, President of Bangladesh Chess Federation and President of South Asian Chess Council (SACC),

Congratulations to Mr. Gurvanbaatar Erdenebaatar on his election as President of the Mongolian Chess Federation.

Mr. Gurvanbaatar was elected by a landslide of 122 out of 171 votes.

WGM Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii was appointed General Secretary.

Asian Chess Federation President Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifah Al Nahyan has sent a letter of congratulations to President Gurvanbaatar and WGM Enkhtuul Altan Ulzii.

The Western Asia Online Chess Championships started on 18^th  of September 2021 with the participation of more than 850 players from 15 Countries on the Totnelo Platform. The Countries of Bangladesh, India, Iran, Jorden, Kazakhstan. Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan. Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Syria, UAE, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka are in the race for the championships. Visit chess-results.com for round by round pairings and results and to download games.

India has fielded the highest number of players, 380, Sri Lanka 200 and Iran 161 with others completing the rest. Indian players are dominating the event with a great resistance from Iran and Central Asian Republic Russian speaking Countries. Sri Lanka’s International Master, Harshana Thilakarathne is in Under 18 Open category.

The event conducted by the Asian Chess Federation is organized by Chess Federation of Sri Lanka. It will be in progress on 19^th and 20^th also. The Open and girls categories are divided to two groups where the girls’ category is started at 11.30 Sri Lankan time while the Open section starts at 16.30 Sri Lankan time each day. The time control is Rapid Chess Time control of 15 minutes + 10 seconds for each and every move played.

The small and respectable Opening Ceremony was held at 11.00 o’clock Sri Lanka time on 18^th with Mr. Hisham Al Taher, the General Secretary of Asian Chess Federation as the Chief Guest. Hon. Namal Rajapakse, the Minister of Sports of Sri Lanka has also sent a recorded message to encourage the participants. Mr. Al Taher was delighted with number of participants and praised the organizers for their hard work and declared that the Asian Chess Federation is conducting a number of events with the idea of strengthening Asian Chess. He wished all participants success.

Hon. Minister stated that with the strategic structure in the game Chess can be used to develop our own life. He said that he believed that event has a competition of world class and wished all players best of luck!

Mr. Luxman Wijesuriya, president of Sri Lankan Chess Federation, speaking at the event said that they are doing a lot of programs to uplift in Sri Lankan Chess. But, they are always ready to support for upgrading Asian and World Chess whenever possible.

The Champions of each age group is selected to play in the FIDE World FIDE Youth & Cadet Chess Grand Prix 2021 next month the most prestigious age group event held in first time.