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Sri Lankan chess prodigy Susal Thewjan de Silva of Nalanda College is the second runner-up in the Sri Lanka National Chess Championship 2020. In Anuradhapura, where he attended Primary School before being selected for Nalanda after passing the scholarship exam in Grade 5, Susal won the West Asian Chess Championship (U12 age group) in 2017 to be crowned the youngest FIDE Master when he was just ...
[6] [7] Around 70 students' unions [8] are affiliated with the confederation, accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in Sri Lanka. [9] The IUSF is the organization that is given leadership to whole university students in Sri Lanka. [10] It is the largest student organization in Sri Lanka to date.
Sri Lanka National Chess Champions 2019 Champion : Harshana Thilakarathne and Women's Champion: Sayuni Gihansa Jayaweera – {(c) Ruwan Gunarathne)} National Chess Champion Isuru Alahakoon 2012–2014 and 2018
She is the sister of Sri Lankan chess player, Suneetha Wijesuriya. [3] She began playing at the age of nine, after her sister Suneetha won a chess set in a competition. [2] She is nicknamed "the Chess Queen of Sri Lanka". [4] Vineetha was a student of Gothatuwa Maha Vidyalaya and Buddhist Ladies College, Colombo 7. Vineetha Wijesuriya has also ...
She won Sri Lanka's first ever gold medal at a World Chess Olympiad when she achieved it during the 30th Chess Olympiad which was held in Manila in 1992. Up to date, she remains as the only chess player to have won a gold medal at a World Chess Olympiad for Sri Lanka. She has also won the Sri Lankan Women's National Chess Championship title ten ...
He represented Sri Lanka in 1978, 2004, and 2006 at the Chess Olympiad. [1] He won the New York State Chess Championship in 1975 and again in 2001. [4] He was inducted into the New York State Chess Hall of Fame in 1996. Weeramantry started his chess teaching career in 1979 at Hunter College Campus Schools in Upper Manhattan. To mark the program ...
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In October 2020, Ranindu won his first national chess championship title at the age of 16 and became the first schoolboy from Ananda College to become national champion after 20 years. [5] [6] [7] He also later emerged as a winner of the Sri Lanka Chess Grand Prix 2021. [8] He also claimed bronze medal at the 2021 Asian Hybrid Chess Championship.