Nine year old Oshini Devindya Gunawardena, a student of Ferguson High School, Ratnapura in Sri Lanka, reached the finals of the FIDE Online Youth Chess World cup Finals after a nail biting finish at her tie breaking Armageddon game.
Oshini played very strongly in her first game of the Semi Finals with Russian Diana and won the game convincingly by sacrificing her Queen to get Checkmate. Starting the game with two Knights defense she sacrificed a pawn at the opening for center play but white managed to settle the position with an extra pawn after exchanging three minor pieces. But, strong Oshini found the mate with a Rook and a Bishop by sacrificing the Queen in time trouble situation with her Russian opponent.
In the second game which was played in the Ruy lopez opening she missed a move in the opening which resulted in her losing a minor piece. But, with her active play she managed to get the Bishop back. Still she had fewer pawns and lost the endgame.
Having Black pieces at the tie break game, she outplayed her opponent totally to earn the berth for the World Championship Final Match tomorrow.